Survival and Flourishing Fund’s 2023 H1 recs

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Survival and Flourishing Funds just announced their grant recommendations for the first half of 2023! I’ve visualized the grants by size via treemap, grouping AI safety/​governance charities in blue and others in orange:

Thanks to all the recommenders, and congrats to all the recommendees!

Organization	Amount	Receiving Charity	Purpose
AI Objectives Institute	$492,000	The Goodly Institute	General Support of AI Objectives Institute
Alignment Research Center (Evals Team)	$3,247,000	Alignment Research Center	General Support of Alignment Research Center (Evals Team)
Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED)	$1,159,000	Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED)	General Support
Arkose	$683,000	Players Philanthropy Fund	General Support of Arkose
Basis Research Institute	$126,000	Basis Research Institute	General Support
BERI-CHAI Collaboration	$631,000 ($150,000)†	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	General Support of BERI-CHAI Collaboration
BERI-CLTC Collaboration	$522,000	Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative	General Support of BERI-CLTC Collaboration
Center for AI Safety	$22,000	Center for AI Safety, Inc.	General Support
Center for Strategic and International Studies (AI Governance Project)	$291,000 ($155,000)†	Center for Strategic and International Studies	General Support of Center for Strategic and International Studies (AI Governance Project)
Center on Long-Term Risk	$1,327,000	Center on Long-Term Risk	General Support
Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)	$116,000	Effective Ventures Foundation	General Support of Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)
Charter Cities Institute	$315,000	Center for Innovative Governance (d/​b/​a Charter Cities Institute)	General Support
Church Lab Meiosis Team	$700,000 ($401,000)†	Hansjorg Wyss Institute For Biologically Inspired Engineering	General Support of Church Lab Meiosis Team
FAR AI, Inc.	$2,028,000 ($170,000)†	FAR AI, Inc.	General Support
FAR AI, Inc.	$1,063,000 ($380,000)†	FAR AI, Inc.	General Support of FAR AI, Inc. Labs
fp21	$172,000	fp21	General Support
Holtman Systems Research	$269,000	AI Safety Support Ltd—Equivalency Determination	General Support of Holtman Systems Research
Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies (IACS)	$379,000.00 ($75,000)†	Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies (IACS)	General Support
Lightcone Infrastructure	$1,733,000	Center for Applied Rationality	General Support of Lightcone Infrastructure
Manifold Markets	$1,241,000	Manifold for Charity	General Support of Manifold Markets
Ought Inc.	$358,000	Ought Inc.	General Support
Project Solve	$196,000	Effective Ventures Foundation	General Support of Project Solve
Redwood Research Group Inc.	$1,098,000	Redwood Research Group Inc.	General Support
Senter for langsiktig politikk/​Centre for Long-Term Policy	$325,000	Effektiv Altruisme Norge	General Support of Senter for langsiktig politikk/​Centre for Long-Term Policy
The Collective Intelligence Project	$300,000	The Collective Intelligence Project	General Support
The Unjournal	$565,000	Open Collective Foundation	General Support of The Unjournal
Topos Institute	$69,000 ($69,000)†	Topos Institute	General Support
University of Chicago Existential Risk Laboratory	$380,000	The University of Chicago	General Support of University of Chicago Existential Risk Laboratory
University of Louisville (Dr. Roman Yampolskiy’s Research Group (Cybersecurity Lab))	$274,000 ($115,000)†	University of Louisville Foundation, Inc.	General Support of University of Louisville (Dr. Roman Yampolskiy’s Research Group (Cybersecurity Lab))