“The Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund aims to increase the impact of projects that use the principles of effective altruism, by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge.”In its own words: funds.effectivealtruism.org
The EA Funds fund (formerly the EA Meta Fund) that grants to projects building the effective-altruism community's talent, capital and knowledge, some of which feed AI safety work. It has recommended several million dollars in grants.
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Funds projects that multiply the impact of effective altruism work (intellectual infrastructure, events, information sharing, fundraising for effective charities) across global wellbeing, longtermism and cause-general work. Fund managers decide on applications sent through EA Funds' online form, with advisors supporting them.
Says it gives about $1.4M (2024)
Typical grant $107k ($19k–$184k)
Itemised here $3.7M in 89 grants
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Money flows
Where its money came from and where it went. Pick years and what to show; hover a box or ribbon for details, click one to focus it, click the background to see everything.
How to apply
- Applications
- Open
- Who can apply
- Individuals, New organisations, Organisations
- Decision time
- About 4 weeks (unofficial)
Apply via the fund page ('Apply for funding').
Biggest recipients
- Training for Good$708k
- Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research$534k
- Individual #27130$317k
- Lightcone Infrastructure$250k
- Rethink Priorities$223k
- CEEALAR$184k
Money from
- Coefficient Giving 2022$4.9M
- Coefficient Giving 2023$1.3M
- Coefficient Giving 2021$500k
Gifts and pooled money between funders, as recorded on the site.
All grants
89 grants totalling $3.7M, newest first. Recipients link to their own pages; people who received grants without a public profile are shown by number.
2025 7 grants · $567k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research | $150k | Cost-effective incubator and launchpad for EA talent, research, and high-impact initiatives, with emphasis on GCRs source |
| Jul 2025 | Algorithmic Governance Foundation | $19k | Running five student-led projects to build open-source AI tools for improving institutional decision-making source |
| Jul 2025 | Individual #1541 | $11k | 9 month part time stipend to scale up a successful EA uni group and high potential AIS group |
| Apr 2025 | Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research | $200k | Subsidised residency hub enabling EAs to upskill, perform research, found new orgs, and/or transition into EA careers source |
| Apr 2025 | Skylark | $15k | Agile event strategy and delivery for EA and AI subfields and communities source |
| Jan 2025 | Rethink Priorities | $107k | Empowering Rethink Priorities to strengthen EA's public image through strategic media engagement and audience growth source |
| Jan 2025 | Manifund | $65k | 100-200 person coworking & events space in SF source |
2024 7 grants · $910k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2024 | Lightcone Infrastructure | $250k | Support for LessWrong.com, Lighthaven.space and other infrastructure that improves humanity's epistemics and long-term future source |
| Oct 2024 | Rethink Priorities | $67k | Developing an actionable model for guiding EA resource allocation between movement-building and direct impact source |
| Oct 2024 | Rethink Priorities | $50k | Conduct a survey (and potentially interviews) with people who bounced off or dropped out of EA source |
| Oct 2024 | Individual #5928 | $7k | Temporary relocation costs for FIG Fellowship +/- stipend |
| Jun 2024 | CEEALAR | $184k | EA Funds grants database (2024 Q2): Support for CEEALAR's research and career development hub, as well as onboarding and supporting people working AI x-risk and other global catastrophic risks. source |
| Apr 2024 | Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research | $184k | Support for CEEALAR's research and career development hub, as well as onboarding and supporting people working AI x-risk and other global catastrophic risks. source |
| Jan 2024 | Rethink Priorities, Worldview Investigations Team | $169k | Stipend to improve the CCM, including a portfolio builder to better help individuals and foundations prioritize spending source |
2023 31 grants · $365k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2023 | Individual #32390 | $15k | 2 Month Exit Grant of 2.5 FTE salary split across 5 people to transition the EA Philippines Community |
| Oct 2023 | Rethink Wellbeing, Arb Research | $8k | EA Funds grants database (2023 Q4): Stipend for laptop + basic living to conduct research at Rethink Wellbeing, Arb, and the Bristol AI Safety Centre. source |
| Oct 2023 | Richard Chappell | $6k | 1-course buyout from university teaching to allow me to focus more on public outreach and "beneficentric" phil research source |
| Jul 2023 | Individual #4656 | $28k | EA Funds grants database (2023 Q3): 6 month salary for career exploration, focused on alignment research and field building |
| Jul 2023 | Individual #5377 | $27k | 6 month salary for staff of EA Hungary and BudAi to support students to pursue high-impact careers source |
| Jul 2023 | Anonymous | $17k | EA Funds grants database (2023 Q3): A small version of MLAB in Oxford for promising existing AI safety researchers wanting to upskill in ML source |
| Jul 2023 | Individual #37906 | $7k | 6-month salary, to lead the city group EA Oslo 8hrs/week |
| Apr 2023 | Newspeak House | $32k | One year of funding to support Newspeak House as an EA community hub source |
| Apr 2023 | Effective Help | $4k | Support for Effective Help - salary for a junior expert. Project goals include running ~20 project evaluations, capacity building on M&E for ~20 orgs, supporting fundraising activities of at least 2 orgs and conducting 1 cause prioritisation exercise. source |
| Apr 2023 | Individual #2459 | $2k | EA Funds grants database (2023 Q2): 24 hours community building as an intern at EA hungary focusing on enhancing the AI governance |
| Apr 2023 | Individual #65880 | $2k | This grant provides funding for the EA Raleigh group to maintain their website, facilitate meet-ups and pay for digital marketing campaigns. This will support their efforts to raise awareness about effective altruism through events. |
| Apr 2023 | Overcoming Bias NYC | $1k | Funding for rationality meetups in New York City - increasing exposure to and engagement with effective altruism. source |
| Jan 2023 | MTÜ Efektiivne Altruism Eesti | $47k | Three proposals to funnel talent in Estonia and the Baltics (Latvia and Lithuania) to work on high-impact career paths source |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #14261 | $38k | 12 month 1 FTE salary + expenses to provide operational support to the EA NZ community, including the EA NZ Charitable Trust |
| Jan 2023 | Hear This Idea | $35k | Ongoing support for Hear This Idea, a podcast showcasing new thinking in effective altruism source |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #83768 | $27k | 4-months salary and expansion of talent search work in India and Latvia |
| Jan 2023 | Anonymous | $20k | EA Funds grants database (2023 Q1): 3-month grant to investigate AI talent pipelines and related career pathways that maximise lifelong impact on existential risk reduction. source |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #5377 | $12k | EA Funds grants database (2023 Q1): 5 month salary to continue leading EA Hungary and Budapest AI Safety and personal development |
| Jan 2023 | Anonymous | $10k | EA Funds grants database (2023 Q1): 3-month support during career transition to explore project-based longtermist work (in AI and bio in particular, writing up key learnings ) source |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #23843 | $6k | Career pivot during sabbatical: editing/admin help 100 page book on scholarship strategy for low income students |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #7649 | $6k | EA Funds grants database (2023 Q1): 16 days of research consulting services to help AI Safety Support (AISS) evaluate the impact of their organisation |
| Jan 2023 | Positive Impact Society Erasmus (PISE) | $4k | Supplement grant to cover rent for our office to for a running grant due to higher rent than expected source |
| Jan 2023 | University of Waterloo EA Club | $2k | Attending EAG SF 2023 source |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #16949 | $2k | Travel funding to attend EAG London 2023 |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #65184 | $2k | Attending EA Global in Februay 2023 |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #50177 | $2k | EAG Bay Area Travel Funding |
| Jan 2023 | Kushal Kumar Reddy Digavinti Venkata Siva Satya Sai | $1k | Seeking travel support to attend EAG Bay Area 2023 source |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #5020 | $1k | Partial Grant to attend EAG Bay Area 2023 source |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #64599 | $700 | Applying for a travel grant for me to go to EAG Bay Area on Feb 24-26 |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #89776 | $650 | My application is for a travel grant to attend the EAG Bay Area conference 2023 |
| Jan 2023 | Individual #77480 | $482 | EAG Bay Area Travel funds |
2022 41 grants · $1.7M
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2022 | Training for Good | $593k | EA Funds grants database (2022 Q4): 12-month budget. Salary for 4.5 FTE and stipends to help trainees enter careers in AI governance, journalism, etc source |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #27130 | $317k | This grant provides support for courses offered by Leaf - an independent nonprofit that supports exceptional teenagers to explore how they can best save lives, help others, or change the course of history. |
| Oct 2022 | UES – Gemeinnützige GmbH für effektives Spenden | $120k | Funding for the Berlin EA coworking and event space TEAMWORK source |
| Oct 2022 | Training for Good | $114k | 8-month programme helping ambitious graduates to launch EU policy careers focused on emerging tech source |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #7650 | $60k | 4-month salary for two people to trial doing EA Austin community-building work full-time |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #8776 | $45k | 6 month operational expenses for EA Philippines |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #51202 | $45k | 1 year half-time salary for an organizer for EA Chicago |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #82477 | $42k | 12-month salary to build a fellowship program to prepare the world’s most promising leaders to work on EA priorities |
| Oct 2022 | Effective Altruism at UC Berkeley | $39k | EA Funds grants database (2022 Q4): UC Berkeley’s EA group & new AI Safety group 22-23 funding for food, marketing, & lead student organizer salary source |
| Oct 2022 | EFFEKTIV ALTRUISME NTNU | $32k | Requesting funding equivalent to 1.5 FTE to counterfactually allocate more time to ambitious community building work source |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #83036 | $32k | 12-month part-time salary for 2 organisers, equipment and other expenses, to expand EA community building in Hong Kong |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #73138 | $29k | 4 month salary to do CB work primarily to run cause prioritisation retreats for members of major groups in the UK |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #29716 | $23k | Fostering the rapid expansion of an EA group at Rice University and using it as a base for a Houston EA hub |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #3973 | $20k | EA Funds grants database (2022 Q4 - 2): Funding to pilot a EA Student Consultancy (Pilot project in AI Safety Operations) |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #32309 | $16k | 6-month salary to continue building EA Los Angeles |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #13936 | $16k | Pro rata'd salary to co-organise the Effective Altruism student group in St. Andrews over 3 years |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #52213 | $11k | 6-month part-time salary to coordinate EA Colombia |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #85596 | $11k | Salary to hold events and manage infrastructure for EA East Bay, 7.5 hours / week for 6 months |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #59422 | $10k | General stipend to do a PhD in economics (focusing on global priorities) |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #88779 | $10k | 6-month salary to improve implementation of accessible software to help EAs more reliably apply rationality methods |
| Oct 2022 | Scholars for Society (Birmingham Chapter) | $10k | Funding for Scholars for Society - Logistical costs for a single in-person educational event helping young people explore potential effective career paths source |
| Oct 2022 | Discussing Effectiveness | $8k | 6-12 months part-time salary to create content and host virtual interactive discussions on the basic principles of Effective altruism source |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #30191 | $8k | 1-Academic year salary to co-run EA Bristol Uni group , running fellowships to increase student engagement in EA |
| Oct 2022 | EA Munich | $8k | Running a virtual longtermism fellowship source |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #5377 | $6k | 5-month salary for Personal Assistant to leader of EA Hungary source |
| Oct 2022 | EA Colorado | $6k | 12-month 0.25 FTE salary for continuing to run EA Colorado source |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #5377 | $4k | 3 month salary and personal development greant for founder of EA Hungary source |
| Oct 2022 | Anonymous | $4k | EA Funds grants database (2022 Q4 - 2): Internship to contribute to a European EA group, write about Community Building Strategies, and develop AI Governance Fellowship source |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #5377 | $3k | Retrospective and additional top-up funding for scaling up EA Hungary source |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #33858 | $3k | 2-semesters on Exec Board of Tufts EA where I manage events, create syllabus for EA course, and am part of leadership |
| Oct 2022 | Chicago Rationality | $3k | Infrastructure for Chicago rationality meetups source |
| Oct 2022 | Anonymous | $3k | EA Funds grants database (2022 Q4): Professional development funding to network and meet professionals working in alternative protein companies, AI safety, and computational biology and purchase a new laptop for ML/AI/Computational Neuroscience studies and research source |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #9616 | $3k | 4-month salary for time as President of EA ANU in order to continue the club and run events source |
| Oct 2022 | EA Oslo | $2k | One time pay in order to prioritze having coffee with every new member of our Facebook group source |
| Oct 2022 | Individual #5377 | $850 | Funds to support the purchase of a laptop for the main organiser of EA Hungary source |
| Jul 2022 | Anonymous | $20k | EA Funds grants database (2022 Q3): Financial assistance for undergraduate learning AI technical skills to avert college transfer source |
| Jul 2022 | Anonymous | $7k | EA Funds grants database (2022 Q3): Support to build detailed views on AI x-risk source |
| Jul 2022 | Anonymous | $6k | EA Funds grants database (2022 Q3): Support for university EA/Alt Protein Project community building and up-skilling on technical AI safety source |
| Jul 2022 | Anonymous | $6k | EA Funds grants database (2022 Q3): Support to investigate setting up Alignment Australasia to engage in movement building activities source |
| Jul 2022 | Individual #55928 | $3k | 1month seed grant -> 1st EA chapter@NYU Shanghai -> exposing students (including chinese) through competitive fellowship |
| Jan 2022 | Individual #6552 | $6k | EA Funds grants database (2022 Q1): Class on machine learning |
2021 3 grants · $109k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2021 | Shauna Kravec & Nova DasSarma | $50k | May–August 2021 payout report (paid 8 Nov 2021): build compute infrastructure and dedicated support to run technical AI experiments for safety researchers source |
| Oct 2021 | Cambridge Effective Altruism CIC | $50k | EA Funds grants database (2021 Q4): Funding for ~10 fellows to undertake an 8-week existential risk focused summer research fellowship source |
| Jan 2021 | Czech Association for Effective Altruism (CZEA) | $8k | Create a short Czech book (~130 pgs) and brochure (~20 pgs) with a good introduction to EA in digital and print formats source |