The FTX Future Fund launched in Feb 2022, and Open Phil were hiring for a program officer for their new Global Health and Wellbeing program in Feb 2022 (see here).
For context, all FTX funds go/went to longtermist causes; Open Phil currently has two grantmaking programs (see here): one in Longtermism and the other one being the Global Health and Wellbeing program that launched—I assume—around Feb ’22.
So my guess, though I’m not certain, is that the launches of FTX Future Fund and Open Phil’s Global Health and Wellbeing program were linked, and that Open Phil did increase its neartermist:longtermist funding ratio when FTX funds became available.
OPP was making grants in the Global Health and Wellbeing space (which includes animal welfare) long before this.
The data exist via their grants database[1] — it doesn’t look to me like there was any shift away from longtermism that coincided with SBF/FTX entering the space (if anything, it looks like the opposite could be true in 2022).
Did Open Phil shift funds away from longtermist causes when FTX funds became available?
The FTX Future Fund launched in Feb 2022, and Open Phil were hiring for a program officer for their new Global Health and Wellbeing program in Feb 2022 (see here).
For context, all FTX funds go/went to longtermist causes; Open Phil currently has two grantmaking programs (see here): one in Longtermism and the other one being the Global Health and Wellbeing program that launched—I assume—around Feb ’22.
So my guess, though I’m not certain, is that the launches of FTX Future Fund and Open Phil’s Global Health and Wellbeing program were linked, and that Open Phil did increase its neartermist:longtermist funding ratio when FTX funds became available.
OPP was making grants in the Global Health and Wellbeing space (which includes animal welfare) long before this.
The data exist via their grants database [1] — it doesn’t look to me like there was any shift away from longtermism that coincided with SBF/FTX entering the space (if anything, it looks like the opposite could be true in 2022).
Credit to Tyler Muale for data collection
This data point doesn’t update me much.