Supposedly cause neutral grantmakers aligned with effective altruism have influenced 15.3 M$[17] (= 0.03 + 5*10^-4 + 2.70 + 3.56 + 0.0488 + 0.087 + 5.98 + 2.88) towards efforts aiming to decrease nuclear risk[18]:
ACX Grants supported Morgan Rivers via a grant of 30 k$ in 2021 “to help ALLFED improve modeling of food security during global catastrophes” (the public write-up is 1 paragraph).
The Future of Life Institute (FLI) supported nuclear war research via 10 grants in 2022 totalling 3.56 M$ (1 paragraph each), of which 1 M$ was to support Alan Robock’s and Brian Toon’s research.
The Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF) directed 48.8 k$ (= 3.6 + 5 + 40.2), supporting:
ALLFED via a grant of 3.6 k$ in 2021 for “researching plans to allow humanity to meet nutritional needs after a nuclear war that limits conventional agriculture” (1 sentence).
Isabel Johnson via an “exploratory grant” of 5 k$ in 2022 for “preliminary research into the civilizational dangers of a contemporary nuclear strike” (1 sentence).
Will Aldred via a grant of 40.2 k$ in 2022 to “1) Carry out independent research into risks from nuclear weapons, [and] 2) Upskill in AI strategy” (1 sentence).
For transparency, I encourage Longview to share on their website information about at least the date and size of the grants this fund made[19].
Open Philanthropy has supported Alan Robock’s and Brian Toon’s research on nuclear winter via grants totalling 5.98 M$ (= 2.98 + 3), 2.98 M$ in 2017, and 3 M$ in 2020[20] (2 paragraphs each).
The Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) has supported ALLFED via grants totalling 2.88 M$ (= 0.01 + 0.13 + 0.175 + 0.979 + 0.427 + 1.16), 10 k$ and 130 k$ in 2019, 175 k$ and 979 k$ in 2021, 427 k$ in 2022, and 1.16 M$ in 2023 (1 sentence each).
For reference, I collected some data on this: