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Funder·Founded 2017·Oxford, United Kingdom
“Effective Altruism Funds lets you pool your donations with others to have bigger impact.”In its own words: funds.effectivealtruism.org

The Centre for Effective Altruism's pooled grantmaking funds: Animal Welfare, EA Infrastructure, Global Health & Development, and now Transformative AI. They fund AI safety mainly through the new Transformative AI Fund, which succeeds the closing Long-Term Future Fund.

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Effective Ventures' grant funds: currently Animal Welfare, EA Infrastructure, Global Health and Development, and a Transformative AI Fund focused on catastrophic risks from advanced AI. Fund managers decide on applications that are always open, using published criteria such as expected value and counterfactual impact.

Says it has given about $100M in total

On applying “Always open to applications” funds.effectivealtruism.org

Led by Lowe Lundin (Head of Fund), Elie Hassenfeld (Fund Chair)Checked 29 Oct 2026

Money flows

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How to apply

Applications
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Rolling applications via 'Apply for funding' on the site (grants of $1,000 to $500,000); the EA Infrastructure, Transformative AI and Animal Welfare funds each have an Apply link: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/apply-for-funding

Programmes

Money from

Gifts and pooled money between funders, as recorded on the site.