I would take a close look at who the grantmakers are and whether their reasoning seems good to you. Because there is significant fungibility and many of these funding pools have broad scopes, I personally expect the competence of the grantmakers to matter at least as much as the specific missions of the funds.
I don’t think it’s quite as clear that the LTFF is better than the EA Infrastructure Fund; I agree with your argument but think this could be counterbalanced by the EA Infrastructure Fund’s greater focus on talent recruitment, or other factors.
I don’t know to what degree it is hard for Longview to get fully unrestricted funding, but if that’s hard for Longview, giving it unrestricted funding may be a great idea. They may run across promising opportunities that aren’t palatable to their donors, and handing them over to EA Funds or Open Philanthropy may not be straightforwardly easy in some cases.
(Disclosure: I run EA Funds, which hosts the LTFF and EA Infrastructure Fund. Opinions my own, as always.)
I really liked this comment. Three additions:
I would take a close look at who the grantmakers are and whether their reasoning seems good to you. Because there is significant fungibility and many of these funding pools have broad scopes, I personally expect the competence of the grantmakers to matter at least as much as the specific missions of the funds.
I don’t think it’s quite as clear that the LTFF is better than the EA Infrastructure Fund; I agree with your argument but think this could be counterbalanced by the EA Infrastructure Fund’s greater focus on talent recruitment, or other factors.
I don’t know to what degree it is hard for Longview to get fully unrestricted funding, but if that’s hard for Longview, giving it unrestricted funding may be a great idea. They may run across promising opportunities that aren’t palatable to their donors, and handing them over to EA Funds or Open Philanthropy may not be straightforwardly easy in some cases.
(Disclosure: I run EA Funds, which hosts the LTFF and EA Infrastructure Fund. Opinions my own, as always.)