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Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds

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Effective Altruism Funds (often called EA Funds) are expert-managed, cause-specific pools of funds for regranting. This structure allows small and large donors to efficiently delegate their charitable decision-making to central fund managers. Since the EA Funds sometimes support small, speculative, or individual projects that would not normally qualify for tax deductions, this can also be tax-efficient, as donations to EA Funds are deductible in some jurisdictions.

EA Funds is a spin-off of the Centre for Effective Altruism. Currently, four Funds exist:

  1. Global Health and Development

  2. Animal Welfare

  3. Long-Term Future

  4. Effective Altruism Infrastructure

Further reading

Shulman, Carl (2016) Risk-neutral donors should plan to make bets at the margin at least as well as giga-donors in expectation, Effective Altruism Forum, December 30.

External Links

Effective Altruism Funds. Official website.

Apply for funding.

Related links

Animal Welfare Fund | Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund | Founders Pledge | Global Health and Development Fund | Long-Term Future Fund

EA Funds is more flex­ible than you might think

Jonas VMar 5, 2021, 9:35 AM
158 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

The EAIF is dis­con­tin­u­ing most uni­ver­sity group funding

Max_DanielAug 19, 2022, 2:40 AM
68 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

abergalMay 27, 2021, 6:44 AM
110 points
17 comments57 min readEA link

EA Funds has ap­pointed new fund managers

Jonas VMar 23, 2021, 10:55 AM
76 points
33 comments11 min readEA link

Why you should give to a donor lot­tery this Giv­ing Season

SamDeereNov 17, 2020, 12:40 PM
75 points
25 comments11 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund Grants (Novem­ber 2020)

agdfosterDec 1, 2020, 12:11 PM
58 points
0 comments12 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Septem­ber 2020 grants

HabrykaSep 18, 2020, 10:25 AM
76 points
27 comments18 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Ask Us Any­thing!

AdamGleaveDec 3, 2020, 1:44 PM
89 points
153 comments1 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Novem­ber 2020 grant recommendations

SamDeereDec 3, 2020, 1:00 PM
28 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

A Qual­i­ta­tive Case for LTFF: Filling Crit­i­cal Ecosys­tem Gaps

LinchDec 3, 2024, 9:57 PM
89 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

You can now ap­ply to EA Funds any­time! (LTFF & EAIF only)

Jonas VJun 17, 2021, 8:06 PM
97 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

Re­quest For Pro­pos­als: EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund

kierangreig🔸May 7, 2021, 7:50 PM
67 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Ask Us Any­thing: EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund

KarolinaSarek🔸Dec 18, 2024, 4:21 PM
73 points
39 comments1 min readEA link

My quick thoughts on donat­ing to EA Funds’ Global Health and Devel­op­ment Fund and what it should do

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 15, 2023, 9:08 AM
33 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

EA Funds or­gani­sa­tional up­date: Open Philan­thropy match­ing and distancing

calebpAug 2, 2023, 1:28 AM
126 points
40 comments5 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund Ask Us Any­thing (Jan­uary 2024)

Tom Barnes🔸Jan 12, 2024, 6:36 PM
35 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund: 2024 Re­view, Changes, and Plans

KarolinaSarek🔸Nov 11, 2024, 4:23 PM
161 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

LTFF and EAIF are un­usu­ally fund­ing-con­strained right now

LinchAug 29, 2023, 11:56 PM
168 points
31 comments15 min readEA link

The Long-Term Fu­ture Fund has room for more fund­ing, right now

abergalMar 29, 2021, 1:46 AM
127 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

Public re­ports are now op­tional for EA Funds grantees

abergalNov 13, 2021, 12:37 AM
69 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund’s Plan to Fo­cus on Prin­ci­ples-First EA

LinchDec 6, 2023, 3:24 AM
224 points
41 comments9 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

Jonas VJun 3, 2021, 1:01 AM
92 points
99 comments42 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Pay­out recom­men­da­tions from May 2022 to March 2024

LinchJun 26, 2024, 1:33 PM
134 points
11 comments24 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: May–Au­gust 2021 grant recommendations

Max_DanielDec 24, 2021, 10:42 AM
85 points
19 comments21 min readEA link
(funds.effectivealtruism.org)

Brief Up­dates on EAIF

hbesceliSep 12, 2024, 10:01 AM
96 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2019 grant recommendations

HabrykaApr 23, 2019, 7:00 AM
142 points
242 comments46 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Ask us any­thing!

kierangreig🔸May 7, 2021, 7:54 PM
61 points
130 comments2 min readEA link

You can talk to EA Funds be­fore applying

evhubSep 28, 2021, 8:39 PM
104 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Effec­tiveCrypto.org, pow­ered by EA Funds

SamDeereNov 30, 2021, 3:31 PM
147 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

Which Com­mu­nity Build­ing Pro­jects Get Funded?

AnonymousEAForumAccountNov 13, 2019, 8:31 PM
99 points
56 comments9 min readEA link

Help us im­prove EA Funds

SamDeereOct 30, 2020, 1:12 PM
40 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund AMA

HelenDec 19, 2018, 4:10 AM
39 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the 2019-20 Donor Lottery

SamDeereDec 2, 2019, 1:56 PM
52 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

EA Funds dona­tion plat­form is mov­ing to Giv­ing What We Can

Luke FreemanMay 23, 2022, 3:57 AM
47 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

[Question] What is the marginal im­pact of a small dona­tion to an EA Fund?

Eevee🔹Nov 23, 2020, 7:09 AM
12 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: Ask us any­thing!

Jonas VJun 3, 2021, 1:06 AM
70 points
117 comments3 min readEA link

The EA Meta Fund is now the EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund

Jonas VAug 20, 2020, 12:46 PM
50 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Novem­ber 2020 grant recommendations

HabrykaDec 3, 2020, 12:57 PM
76 points
5 comments14 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds Pro­ject Updates

SamDeereDec 20, 2019, 10:23 PM
46 points
36 comments6 min readEA link

CEA’s 2020 An­nual Review

MaxDaltonDec 10, 2020, 11:45 PM
69 points
9 comments31 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

kierangreig🔸May 22, 2021, 3:44 AM
26 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(funds.effectivealtruism.org)

EA Meta Fund Grants—July 2019

agdfosterSep 13, 2019, 3:40 PM
32 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

EA Funds has a Public Grants Database

calebpOct 18, 2022, 12:55 PM
63 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Changes to EA Funds man­age­ment teams (June 2019)

SamDeereJul 9, 2019, 11:30 PM
28 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Pay­out recom­men­da­tions from April to Oc­to­ber 2024

KarolinaSarek🔸Nov 27, 2024, 11:43 AM
60 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

[Question] Where should I donate?

Eevee🔹Nov 22, 2021, 8:56 PM
29 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

EA Meta Fund Grants – March 2020

SamDeereApr 9, 2020, 8:43 AM
18 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

Long Term Fu­ture Fund and EA Meta Fund ap­pli­ca­tions open un­til June 28th

HabrykaJun 10, 2019, 8:37 PM
60 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: July 2021 grant recommendations

kierangreig🔸Aug 26, 2021, 9:29 AM
40 points
6 comments13 min readEA link
(funds.effectivealtruism.org)

EA Meta Fund Grants Re­port: Nov 18

agdfosterDec 3, 2018, 10:45 AM
23 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund Grants – March 2020

SamDeereApr 9, 2020, 8:48 AM
27 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

In­tro­duc­ing the EA Funds

William_MacAskillFeb 9, 2017, 12:15 AM
46 points
62 comments4 min readEA link

Re­quest for pro­posal—EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund

KarolinaSarek🔸May 28, 2020, 3:02 AM
35 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Long Term Fu­ture Fund: Novem­ber grant decisions

HabrykaDec 2, 2018, 12:26 AM
35 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Long Term Fu­ture Fund ap­pli­ca­tion is clos­ing this Fri­day (June 12th)

HabrykaJun 11, 2020, 4:17 AM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Donat­ing effec­tively does not nec­es­sar­ily im­ply donat­ing tax-deductibly

SamDeereAug 18, 2020, 10:53 AM
87 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Au­gust 2019 grant recommendations

HabrykaOct 3, 2019, 6:46 PM
79 points
70 comments64 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund AMA

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21 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: De­cem­ber 2021 grant recommendations

abergalAug 18, 2022, 8:50 PM
68 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

EA Meta Fund Novem­ber 2019 Pay­out Report

SamDeereDec 7, 2019, 4:32 PM
40 points
14 comments7 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

An­nounc­ing the 2017 donor lottery

SamDeereDec 16, 2017, 12:34 AM
27 points
36 comments1 min readEA link

CEA’s Com­mu­nity Build­ing Grants are be­com­ing more tar­geted; the EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund will start eval­u­at­ing grants for some EA groups

Uni Groups TeamMay 12, 2021, 4:20 PM
33 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

2018-19 Donor Lot­tery Re­port, pt. 1

Ross Rheingans-Yoo🔸Dec 13, 2020, 5:18 PM
77 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

Things I of­ten tell peo­ple about ap­ply­ing to EA Funds

MichaelA🔸Oct 27, 2021, 6:51 AM
78 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Ap­ply to EA Funds now

Jonas VFeb 13, 2021, 1:36 PM
79 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

Giv­ing What We Can & EA Funds now op­er­ate in­de­pen­dently of CEA

MaxDaltonDec 22, 2020, 3:47 AM
99 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Funds are available to fund non-EA-branded groups

BuckJul 21, 2021, 1:08 AM
104 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Kerry Vaughan, Nick Beck­stead, and Lewis Bol­lard: EA Funds

EA GlobalAug 11, 2017, 8:19 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Re­quest for Pro­pos­als Re­gard­ing Scop­ing Re­search/​Pro­ject(s) on Ne­glected yet Large-Scale An­i­mal Populations

kierangreig🔸Sep 3, 2021, 8:15 PM
42 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund Grants – Au­gust 2020

SamDeereAug 14, 2020, 2:57 PM
18 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2020 grants and recommendations

HabrykaSep 18, 2020, 10:28 AM
40 points
7 comments9 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

Donat­ing crypto on EA Funds: more coins, low fees

SamDeereNov 22, 2021, 5:02 PM
75 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

List of EA fund­ing opportunities

MichaelA🔸Oct 26, 2021, 7:49 AM
173 points
42 comments6 min readEA link

Pan­demic pre­pared­ness orgs now on EA Funds

SamDeereApr 9, 2020, 9:15 AM
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Ap­ply to EA Funds now

Jonas VSep 15, 2020, 7:23 PM
56 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

EA Meta Fund AMA: 20th Dec 2018

agdfosterDec 19, 2018, 6:06 PM
21 points
32 comments1 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund and EA Meta Fund ap­pli­ca­tions open un­til June 12th

agdfosterMay 15, 2020, 12:28 PM
48 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Novem­ber 2019 short grant writeups

HabrykaJan 5, 2020, 12:15 AM
46 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

Novem­ber 2019 An­i­mal Welfare Fund Pay­out Report

SamDeereDec 11, 2019, 7:06 PM
31 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

EA Funds Beta Launch

TaraMacAulayFeb 28, 2017, 3:40 AM
31 points
24 comments15 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing an up­dated draw­ing pro­to­col for the Effec­tiveAltru­ism.org donor lotteries

SamDeereJan 24, 2019, 10:22 PM
7 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

EA Meta Fund Grants – July 2020

agdfosterAug 12, 2020, 11:58 AM
53 points
23 comments11 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

CEA’s 2019 An­nual Review

MaxDaltonApr 23, 2020, 7:39 AM
38 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund Ask Us Any­thing (Septem­ber 2023)

LinchAug 30, 2023, 11:02 PM
64 points
127 comments2 min readEA link

The Long-Term Fu­ture Fund is look­ing for a full-time fund chair

LinchOct 5, 2023, 1:49 AM
101 points
21 comments8 min readEA link

The EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund is look­ing for guest fund managers

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 Nov 4, 2023, 10:37 PM
84 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.notion.so)

The EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund (Once Again) Has Sig­nifi­cant Room For More Funding

kierangreig🔸Nov 20, 2023, 10:02 PM
161 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

GWWC’s eval­u­a­tions of evaluators

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸Nov 22, 2023, 4:21 PM
222 points
42 comments6 min readEA link

Hy­po­thet­i­cal grants that the Long-Term Fu­ture Fund nar­rowly rejected

calebpNov 15, 2023, 7:39 PM
95 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion: Ad­ding New Funds to EA Funds

Kerry_VaughanJun 1, 2017, 6:52 PM
14 points
22 comments9 min readEA link

EA Funds—An up­date from CEA

MarekDudaAug 7, 2018, 6:21 PM
33 points
24 comments8 min readEA link

The flow of fund­ing in EA move­ment building

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Jun 23, 2023, 3:45 AM
206 points
33 comments10 min readEA link

The Grant De­ci­sion Boundary: Re­cent Cases from the Long-Term Fu­ture Fund

LinchNov 29, 2024, 1:50 AM
66 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism In­fras­truc­ture Fund: March 2024 recommendations

LinchMay 27, 2024, 9:11 PM
88 points
9 comments9 min readEA link

What Does a Marginal Grant at LTFF Look Like? Fund­ing Pri­ori­ties and Grant­mak­ing Thresh­olds at the Long-Term Fu­ture Fund

LinchAug 10, 2023, 8:11 PM
175 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

How much ex­tra fund­ing can EA AWF re­grant?

KarolinaSarek🔸Nov 13, 2024, 1:44 PM
100 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

EA Meta Fund Grants—March 2019

agdfosterMay 23, 2019, 8:55 AM
67 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: July 2021 grant recommendations

abergalJan 18, 2022, 8:49 AM
75 points
7 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] How should I al­lo­cate my dona­tions among EA funds?

Jung EnthusiastDec 9, 2020, 2:08 AM
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Will EAIF and LTFF pub­lish its re­ports of re­cent grants?

throwaway129103Apr 23, 2022, 12:24 PM
46 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Org Pro­posal: Effec­tive Foundations

Kyle SmithApr 22, 2023, 2:22 PM
57 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: April 2022 grant recommendations

kierangreig🔸Aug 25, 2022, 11:47 PM
59 points
7 comments14 min readEA link

EA Funds and Donor Lot­tery this De­cem­ber: Quick Update

MarekDudaDec 6, 2018, 12:50 AM
25 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA Funds hands out money very in­fre­quently—should we be wor­ried?

Henry Stanley 🔸Jan 31, 2018, 8:10 AM
41 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

EA Funds—A sim­ple anal­y­sis of grants

Ricardo PimentelFeb 9, 2024, 9:13 PM
22 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

AMA: JP Ad­di­son and Sam Deere on soft­ware en­g­ineer­ing at CEA

JP Addison🔸Mar 12, 2021, 10:54 PM
53 points
56 comments1 min readEA link

EA Funds: Long-Term Fu­ture fund is open to ap­pli­ca­tions un­til Novem­ber 24th (this Satur­day)

HabrykaNov 21, 2018, 3:41 AM
21 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Hit Based Giv­ing for Global Development

DavidNashFeb 6, 2019, 6:19 PM
24 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

A change to the grant­mak­ing sched­ule of the Effec­tive Altru­ism Global Health & Devel­op­ment Fund

James Snowden🔸Jun 26, 2019, 10:05 PM
34 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

How to im­prove EA Funds

Henry Stanley 🔸Apr 4, 2018, 9:27 AM
43 points
33 comments3 min readEA link

His­to­rian and best­sel­ling au­thor Rut­ger Breg­man ex­plains why he took the pledge

Keyboard_catNov 26, 2021, 8:17 PM
55 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Up­date on Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds

Kerry_VaughanApr 20, 2017, 5:20 PM
21 points
92 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] What should EAIF Fund?

hbesceliOct 26, 2024, 8:49 PM
59 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

EA grants available to in­di­vi­d­u­als (cross­post from LessWrong)

Jameson QuinnFeb 7, 2019, 3:23 PM
31 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

EA Funds: Long-Term Fu­ture fund is open to ap­pli­ca­tions un­til Feb. 7th

HabrykaJan 17, 2019, 8:25 PM
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The 2021 EA Funds Donor Lot­tery is now open

SamDeereNov 29, 2021, 7:08 PM
37 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Farmed an­i­mals are suffer­ing—here’s how THL UK would use marginal fund­ing to help them.

Molly Archer-ZeffNov 11, 2024, 11:00 AM
65 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Novem­ber 2021 grant recommendations

kierangreig🔸Jan 18, 2022, 9:45 AM
59 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Find­ing be­fore fund­ing: Why EA should prob­a­bly in­vest more in research

Falk LiederAug 17, 2022, 8:48 AM
102 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing EA Growth Rates (MCF memo)

Angelina LiOct 25, 2023, 8:48 AM
133 points
18 comments30 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2023 grant recommendations

abergalAug 2, 2023, 1:31 AM
107 points
55 comments43 min readEA link

[Question] Did For­tify Health re­ceive $1 mil­lion from EA Funds?

HStencilNov 26, 2019, 6:41 PM
17 points
19 comments1 min readEA link
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