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Grantmaking

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Grantmaking is the process by which a government or an organization gives non-repayable funds or products for a particular purpose or project.

Grantmaking focused on top cause areas is one of 80,000 hours “priority paths”—the most promising career opportunities the organization is currently aware of.[1] Their medium-depth profile rates grantmaking an option with high career capital, job satisfaction, direct impact and advocacy potential.[2]

Further reading

Alexander, Scott (2022) So you want to run a microgrants program, Astral Codex Ten, February 9.

Karnofsky, Holden (2013) Challenges of passive funding, The GiveWell Blog, April 18.[3]

Probaby Good (2021) Grantmaking, Probably Good.

Wiblin, Robert (2017) You want to do as much good as possible and have billions of dollars. What do you do?, 80,000 Hours, October 11.

Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) The world’s most intellectual foundation is hiring. Holden Karnofsky, founder of GiveWell, on how philanthropy can have maximum impact by taking big risks, 80,000 Hours, February 27.

Related entries

donation choice | donor lotteries | effective altruism funding | effective giving

  1. ^

    80,000 Hours (2021) Our list of high-impact careers, 80,000 Hours.

  2. ^

    Duda, Roman (2015) Foundation grantmaker, 80,000 Hours, July.

  3. ^

    There are many additional relevant posts in Open Philanthropy’s and GiveWell’s blogs.

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

[Question] What are some suc­cess sto­ries of grant­mak­ers beat­ing the wider EA com­mu­nity?

richard_ngoDec 7, 2021, 2:07 AM
51 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Grant­mak­ing is more like a skill than a path

OllieBaseMar 8, 2022, 9:28 AM
120 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

CE Is Launch­ing a Pilot Train­ing Pro­gram for Grant­mak­ing Foundations

Joey🔸Jan 25, 2022, 3:17 PM
115 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

List of EA fund­ing opportunities

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

Some un­fun les­sons I learned as a ju­nior grantmaker

LinchMay 23, 2022, 4:31 PM
352 points
58 comments13 min readEA link

Why sci­en­tific re­search is less effec­tive in pro­duc­ing value than it could be: a mapping

C TilliJun 14, 2021, 8:24 AM
109 points
33 comments19 min readEA link

Man­i­fund: what we’re fund­ing (week 1)

AustinJul 15, 2023, 12:28 AM
43 points
11 comments3 min readEA link
(manifund.substack.com)

Im­prov­ing sci­ence: In­fluenc­ing the di­rec­tion of re­search and the choice of re­search questions

C TilliDec 20, 2021, 10:20 AM
65 points
13 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Should the main text of the write-ups of Open Philan­thropy’s large grants be longer than 1 para­graph?

Vasco Grilo🔸Mar 31, 2024, 9:04 AM
55 points
40 comments1 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

How to eval­u­ate rel­a­tive im­pact in high-un­cer­tainty con­texts? An up­date on re­search method­ol­ogy & grant­mak­ing of FP Cli­mate

jackvaMay 26, 2023, 5:30 PM
84 points
8 comments16 min readEA link

Up­dates from the Men­tal Health Fun­der’s Circle

wtroyFeb 24, 2023, 7:42 PM
67 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2023 grant recommendations

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

Quan­tify­ing the im­pact of grant­mak­ing ca­reer paths

Joel BeckerOct 30, 2022, 9:00 PM
32 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Should EA grant­mak­ers make p(suc­cess) pub­lic?

KaleemMay 1, 2023, 1:42 PM
26 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Fu­ture Fund June 2022 Update

Nick_BecksteadJul 1, 2022, 12:50 AM
279 points
24 comments21 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: May 2023 to March 2024 Pay­out recommendations

LinchJun 12, 2024, 1:46 PM
75 points
8 comments13 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Non­lin­ear Emer­gency Funding

Kat WoodsNov 13, 2022, 6:02 PM
192 points
59 comments1 min readEA link

Some clar­ifi­ca­tions on the Fu­ture Fund’s ap­proach to grantmaking

Nick_BecksteadMay 10, 2022, 2:42 AM
327 points
61 comments3 min readEA link

RFP for High-Im­pact Men­tal Health Projects

wtroyAug 15, 2024, 2:35 PM
26 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Ap­ply For An ACX Grant

AppliedDivinityStudiesNov 12, 2021, 9:44 AM
59 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

The case for trans­par­ent spending

Jeroen Willems🔸Dec 15, 2022, 5:42 PM
19 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

How should Effec­tive Altru­ists think about Leftist Ethics?

AppliedDivinityStudiesNov 27, 2021, 1:25 PM
82 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

His­tor­i­cal Notes on Char­i­ta­ble Funds

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Dec 4, 2022, 11:30 PM
25 points
5 comments3 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Nav­i­ga­tion Fund launched + is hiring a pro­gram officer to lead the dis­tri­bu­tion of $20M an­nu­ally for AI safety! Full-time, fully re­mote, pay starts at $200k

vincentweisserNov 3, 2023, 9:53 PM
120 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Man­i­fund Regrants

AustinJul 5, 2023, 7:42 PM
217 points
51 comments4 min readEA link
(manifund.org)

“Should have been hired” Prizes

LarksJan 19, 2022, 2:19 PM
38 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

What is the over­head of grant­mak­ing?

MathiasKB🔸Jun 15, 2022, 5:07 PM
59 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing the Aver­age Im­pact of an ARPA-E Grantmaker

charrinDec 1, 2022, 6:34 AM
22 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

EA Meta Fund AMA: 20th Dec 2018

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

Select ex­am­ples of ad­verse se­lec­tion in longter­mist grantmaking

LinchAug 23, 2023, 3:45 AM
201 points
32 comments4 min readEA link

Some fun les­sons I learned as a ju­nior regrantor

Joel BeckerDec 20, 2023, 4:40 PM
63 points
9 comments5 min readEA link
(joel-becker.com)

Mak­ing large dona­tion de­ci­sions as a per­son fo­cused on di­rect work

Ben KuhnDec 27, 2021, 6:19 PM
37 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Man­i­fund: What we’re fund­ing (weeks 2-4)

AustinAug 4, 2023, 4:00 PM
65 points
6 comments5 min readEA link
(manifund.substack.com)

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)

A Model of Hits-Based Giving

harsimonyMar 25, 2022, 5:09 AM
3 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

A liber­tar­ian so­cial­ist’s view on how EA can improve

freedomandutilityDec 30, 2022, 1:07 PM
143 points
32 comments7 min readEA link

New pub­li­ca­tion: A guide to the chang­ing land­scape of high-im­pact cli­mate philanthropy

jackvaDec 1, 2021, 7:00 PM
65 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Re­sults of an in­for­mal sur­vey on AI grantmaking

Scott AlexanderAug 21, 2024, 1:19 PM
121 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

A per­sonal take on longter­mist AI governance

lukeprogJul 16, 2021, 10:08 PM
173 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

Meta Char­ity Fun­ders: Sum­mary of Our First Grant Round and Path Forward

Joey🔸Jan 16, 2024, 11:16 AM
107 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

EA needs consultancies

lukeprogJun 28, 2021, 3:18 PM
240 points
88 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism In­fras­truc­ture Fund: March 2024 recommendations

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

Grant­mak­ing Bowl: An EA Stu­dent Com­pe­ti­tion Idea

Cullen 🔸Dec 6, 2022, 3:27 AM
13 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

EA Funds or­gani­sa­tional up­date: Open Philan­thropy match­ing and distancing

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

OpenBook: New EA Grants Database

Rachel WeinbergJan 28, 2023, 5:42 PM
205 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Fund­ing Cir­cles: An AIM Guide to im­prov­ing donor coordination

Joey🔸Oct 23, 2024, 3:33 PM
70 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

SoGive Grants: a promis­ing pi­lot. Our re­flec­tions and pay­out re­port.

SoGiveDec 5, 2022, 5:31 PM
69 points
4 comments21 min readEA link

Is effec­tive al­tru­ism grow­ing? An up­date on the stock of fund­ing vs. people

Benjamin_ToddJul 29, 2021, 11:47 AM
301 points
105 comments21 min readEA link

Longter­mism Fund: Au­gust 2023 Grants Report

Michael Townsend🔸Aug 20, 2023, 5:34 AM
81 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

New Nu­clear Se­cu­rity Grant­mak­ing Pro­gramme at Longview Philanthropy

KitMar 15, 2022, 2:47 PM
155 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

What would you do if you had half a mil­lion dol­lars?

PatrickJul 17, 2021, 4:18 PM
107 points
52 comments5 min readEA link

High-risk high-re­ward philan­thropy: ap­ply­ing ven­ture cap­i­tal con­cepts to do­ing good

JamesÖzJul 4, 2022, 1:00 PM
23 points
2 comments9 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

How We Think about Ex­pected Im­pact in Cli­mate Philanthropy

jackvaNov 28, 2023, 7:02 PM
39 points
8 comments25 min readEA link

[Question] Where I can prac­tice judg­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties to lend or donate or in­vest, for $25 per de­ci­sion?

CiennaJun 12, 2021, 2:09 PM
19 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Re­grant up to $600,000 to AI safety pro­jects with GiveWiki

Dawn DrescherOct 28, 2023, 7:56 PM
22 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Why I funded PIBBSS

Ryan KiddSep 15, 2024, 7:56 PM
90 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Join the next round of AIM’s Grant­mak­ing Pro­gram!

Andrea (Danny) FoldsJul 8, 2024, 12:25 PM
55 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Man­i­fund Q1 Retro: Learn­ings from im­pact certs

AustinMay 1, 2024, 4:48 PM
28 points
4 comments15 min readEA link

Re­view of Past Grants: The $100,000 Grant for a Video Game?

NicolaeJun 3, 2024, 2:28 PM
202 points
64 comments2 min readEA link

Grant­mak­ers should give more feedback

Ariel PontesJan 22, 2024, 1:22 PM
77 points
23 comments7 min readEA link

EAIF isn’t *cur­rently* fund­ing con­strained

hbesceliNov 25, 2024, 3:31 PM
124 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Tem­plate: Strate­gic Fund­ing Ap­proach for An Effec­tive Foundation

SoGiveOct 24, 2024, 4:32 AM
19 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Ex­pec­ta­tions Scale with Scale – We Should Be More Scope-Sen­si­tive in Our Funding

Joey🔸Nov 6, 2024, 9:03 AM
178 points
25 comments3 min readEA link

Fund­ing Diver­sifi­ca­tion is a Tradeoff

Joey🔸Nov 4, 2024, 12:39 PM
64 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

Fau­n­a­lyt­ics’ Fund­ing Gap of $385,000

JLRiediNov 11, 2024, 8:28 PM
24 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Im­pact Max­imi­sa­tion through Sup­ported Re­grant­ing: a Fund­ing Strat­egy Hack

ASuchyNov 7, 2024, 7:48 PM
26 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

An­i­met­rics Needs Sup­port to Bridge Gaps in Ev­i­dence-Based Advocacy

Gulbike MirzaogluNov 17, 2024, 12:10 PM
28 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A Qual­i­ta­tive Case for LTFF: Filling Crit­i­cal Ecosys­tem Gaps

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

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Pay­out recom­men­da­tions from April to Oc­to­ber 2024

KarolinaSarek🔸Nov 27, 2024, 11:43 AM
57 points
1 comment7 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

AWF is look­ing for full-time or part-time fund managers

KarolinaSarek🔸Dec 4, 2024, 12:51 PM
51 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

[Question] How much do EA grant or­ga­ni­za­tions rely on ex­perts?

GilJul 14, 2022, 10:40 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Lin­ear re­gres­sions of the an­nual amount granted by Open Philan­thropy by fo­cus area

Vasco Grilo🔸Aug 20, 2022, 3:59 PM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

EA is too re­li­ant on per­sonal connections

sawyer🔸Sep 1, 2022, 2:26 PM
231 points
27 comments8 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: Septem­ber–De­cem­ber 2021 grant recommendations

Max_DanielJul 12, 2022, 3:24 PM
71 points
3 comments19 min readEA link

We are giv­ing $10k as fore­cast­ing micro-grants

Misha_YagudinFeb 8, 2022, 12:20 PM
51 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Longter­mism Fund: De­cem­ber 2022 Grants Report

Michael Townsend🔸Dec 21, 2022, 4:14 AM
126 points
6 comments4 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Ways money can make things worse

Jan_KulveitJun 21, 2022, 3:26 PM
167 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: April 2022 grant recommendations

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

Public re­ports are now op­tional for EA Funds grantees

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

Tainted dona­tions: the Pres­i­dents Club din­ner – a case study

SanjayNov 15, 2022, 3:45 AM
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Re­quest for feed­back—CA wa­ter data ap­pli­ca­tion for google dot org cli­mate challenge

LockeAug 23, 2022, 12:46 AM
3 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

Be­ing an in­di­vi­d­ual al­ign­ment grantmaker

A_donorFeb 28, 2022, 4:39 PM
34 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

Med­i­ta­tions on ca­reers in AI Safety

PabloAMC 🔸Mar 23, 2022, 10:00 PM
88 points
30 comments2 min readEA link

Pro­posal: Fund­ing Diver­sifi­ca­tion for Top Cause Areas

Evan R. MurphyNov 20, 2022, 11:30 AM
29 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

The Fu­ture Fund’s Re­grant­ing Program

leopoldFeb 28, 2022, 5:28 PM
120 points
11 comments3 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

Key Ques­tions about Philan­thropy, Part 1: What Is the Role of a Fun­der?

Holden KarnofskyJun 23, 2015, 1:30 PM
3 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Es­ti­mat­ing the prob­a­bil­ity that FTX Fu­ture Fund grant money gets clawed back

spencergNov 14, 2022, 3:33 AM
30 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(manifold.markets)

FTX/​CEA—show us your num­bers!

Jack LewarsApr 18, 2022, 12:05 PM
159 points
109 comments2 min readEA link

Ex­pert Philan­thropy vs. Broad Philanthropy

Holden KarnofskyOct 16, 2014, 12:48 PM
3 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Open Philan­thropy’s AI grants

Vasco Grilo🔸Jul 30, 2022, 5:22 PM
21 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Foun­da­tion En­trepreneur­ship—How the first train­ing pro­gram went

Aidan AlexanderJan 6, 2023, 9:17 AM
158 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Up­date from Open Philan­thropy’s Longter­mist EA Move­ment-Build­ing team

ClaireZabelMar 10, 2022, 7:37 PM
200 points
19 comments12 min readEA link

What coun­tries are worth fund­ing?

Ariel PontesJan 15, 2023, 4:23 PM
38 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Do­ing EA Bet­ter: grant-mak­ers should con­sider grant app peer re­view along the pub­lic-sec­tor model

ben.smithJan 24, 2023, 3:01 PM
50 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] How can I start off my ca­reer as an EA al­igned Ven­ture Cap­i­tal­ist ?

NayanikaJan 27, 2023, 9:30 AM
19 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

High im­pact job op­por­tu­nity at ARIA (UK)

RasoolFeb 12, 2023, 10:35 AM
80 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Redi­rect­ing pri­vate foun­da­tion grants to effec­tive charities

Kyle SmithMar 6, 2023, 5:23 PM
40 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

List of all EA-al­igned /​ Effec­tive or­ga­ni­za­tions?

Kyle SmithMar 13, 2023, 7:01 PM
6 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

MHFC Spring Grants Round

wtroyJun 29, 2023, 9:58 PM
103 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Grant ap­pli­ca­tions and grand narratives

ElizabethJul 2, 2023, 2:29 AM
123 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

COI poli­cies for grantmakers

Julia_Wise🔸Nov 9, 2023, 7:00 PM
59 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Some thoughts on quadratic funding

Luis Mota FreitasJul 4, 2023, 8:41 PM
137 points
18 comments15 min readEA link

Up­dates to the flow of fund­ing in EA move­ment build­ing post

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Jul 25, 2023, 12:44 AM
65 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Align­ment Grant­mak­ing is Fund­ing-Limited Right Now [cross­post]

johnswentworthAug 2, 2023, 8:37 PM
82 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] On what ba­sis did Founder’s Pledge dis­perse $1.6 mil. to Qvist Con­sult­ing from its Cli­mate Change Fund?

Kieran.MMar 27, 2023, 3:26 AM
39 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Sur­vival and Flour­ish­ing Fund’s 2023 H1 recs

AustinApr 30, 2023, 4:35 AM
39 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(survivalandflourishing.fund)

Global In­no­va­tion Fund pro­jects its im­pact to be 3x GiveWell Top Charities

jhJun 1, 2023, 1:00 PM
71 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Launch­ing Light­speed Grants (Ap­ply by July 6th)

HabrykaJun 7, 2023, 2:53 AM
117 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Ob­ser­va­tions on the fund­ing land­scape of EA and AI safety

Vilhelm SkoglundOct 2, 2023, 9:45 AM
136 points
12 comments15 min readEA link

Up­dates on the effec­tive giv­ing ecosys­tem (MCF 2024 memo)

Luke Moore 🔸Sep 30, 2024, 2:49 PM
127 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Pre­sent­ing five new effec­tive giv­ing initiatives

CEAug 13, 2024, 4:37 PM
189 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Seek­ing Ap­pli­cants and Fun­ders for the MHFC Spring Round

wtroyFeb 16, 2024, 9:55 PM
23 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

New Open Philan­thropy Grant­mak­ing Pro­gram: Forecasting

Open PhilanthropyFeb 19, 2024, 11:27 PM
92 points
58 comments1 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Meta Char­ity Fun­ders: Launch­ing the 2nd round

Vilhelm SkoglundFeb 26, 2024, 3:23 PM
79 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

In­vest in ACX Grants pro­jects!

Saul MunnMar 6, 2024, 9:02 PM
41 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

List of grants you can ap­ply for to fund your Ve­gan/​An­i­mal Rights Pro­ject/​Or­ga­ni­za­tion.

PreciousPigMar 7, 2024, 2:45 PM
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

One Month Left to Win $5,000 Ca­reer Grants from 80k

MjreardSep 5, 2024, 1:44 PM
68 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Org Pro­posal: Cause Area Com­mon Fund­ing Applications

Kyle SmithDec 14, 2024, 11:26 PM
21 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Lead Ex­po­sure Ac­tion Fund

Alexander_BergerSep 23, 2024, 7:04 PM
259 points
7 comments4 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

The case for EA En­deav­our Ca­reer Insurance

core_admiralApr 3, 2024, 8:35 AM
7 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

MHFC Spring ’24 Grants

wtroyJul 4, 2024, 12:46 AM
54 points
0 comments2 min readEA link