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Long-Term Fu­ture Fund

TagLast edit: 11 Aug 2026 8:59 UTC by Ollie Etherington

The Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF) was an expert-managed fund focused on mitigating global catastrophic risks that threaten the long-term future of humanity, with a special focus on risks from advanced artificial intelligence and on global catastrophic biological risks. It was one of the four funds run by Effective Altruism Funds. As of August 2022, it had funded payouts for over $8.9 million. The LTFF was shutdown in 2026, to be replaced by the Transformative AI Fund.

External links

Long-Term Future Fund. Official website.

Apply for funding.

Related links

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Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

abergal27 May 2021 6:44 UTC
110 points
17 comments57 min readEA link

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

Linch10 Aug 2023 20:11 UTC
176 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

A Qual­i­ta­tive Case for LTFF: Filling Crit­i­cal Ecosys­tem Gaps

Linch3 Dec 2024 21:57 UTC
89 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

Select ex­am­ples of ad­verse se­lec­tion in longter­mist grantmaking

Linch23 Aug 2023 3:45 UTC
201 points
32 comments4 min readEA link

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

Linch29 Nov 2024 1:50 UTC
66 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Hy­po­thet­i­cal grants that the Long-Term Fu­ture Fund nar­rowly rejected

calebp15 Nov 2023 19:39 UTC
95 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

Crazy ideas some­times do work

Aryeh Englander4 Sep 2021 3:27 UTC
71 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

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

Linch5 Oct 2023 1:49 UTC
101 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

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

Linch30 Aug 2023 23:02 UTC
64 points
127 comments2 min readEA link

Public re­ports are now op­tional for EA Funds grantees

abergal13 Nov 2021 0:37 UTC
69 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

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

Jonas_17 Jun 2021 20:06 UTC
97 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

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

Linch12 Jun 2024 13:46 UTC
76 points
8 comments13 min readEA link

LTFF and EAIF are un­usu­ally fund­ing-con­strained right now

Linch29 Aug 2023 23:56 UTC
168 points
31 comments15 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2019 grant recommendations

Habryka [Deactivated]23 Apr 2019 7:00 UTC
142 points
242 comments47 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2023 grant recommendations

abergal2 Aug 2023 1:31 UTC
107 points
55 comments43 min readEA link

GWWC’s eval­u­a­tions of evaluators

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸22 Nov 2023 16:21 UTC
222 points
42 comments6 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Au­gust 2019 grant recommendations

Habryka [Deactivated]3 Oct 2019 18:46 UTC
79 points
70 comments64 min readEA link

Long Term Fu­ture Fund ap­pli­ca­tion is clos­ing this Fri­day (Oc­to­ber 11th)

Habryka [Deactivated]10 Oct 2019 0:43 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

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

abergal29 Mar 2021 1:46 UTC
127 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

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

Habryka [Deactivated]11 Jun 2020 4:17 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Re­quest for Feed­back: Draft of a COI policy for the Long Term Fu­ture Fund

Habryka [Deactivated]5 Feb 2020 18:38 UTC
38 points
63 comments4 min readEA link

2021 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks23 Dec 2021 14:06 UTC
176 points
18 comments73 min readEA link

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

Patrick Brinich-Langlois 🔸17 Jul 2021 16:18 UTC
107 points
52 comments5 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Septem­ber 2020 grants

Habryka [Deactivated]18 Sep 2020 10:25 UTC
76 points
27 comments18 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund AMA

Helen19 Dec 2018 4:10 UTC
39 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

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

Habryka [Deactivated]21 Nov 2018 3:41 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on my time on the Long-Term Fu­ture Fund

abergal2 Aug 2023 1:32 UTC
179 points
20 comments8 min readEA link

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

Habryka [Deactivated]17 Jan 2019 20:25 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Habryka [Deactivated]10 Jun 2019 20:37 UTC
60 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund and EA Meta Fund ap­pli­ca­tions open un­til Jan­uary 31st

agdfoster6 Jan 2020 18:26 UTC
34 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Ask Us Any­thing!

AdamGleave3 Dec 2020 13:44 UTC
89 points
153 comments1 min readEA link

Long Term Fu­ture Fund Ap­pli­ca­tion closes tonight

Habryka [Deactivated]1 Feb 2020 19:47 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Up­date on Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds

Kerry_Vaughan20 Apr 2017 17:20 UTC
21 points
92 comments12 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2020 grants and recommendations

Habryka [Deactivated]18 Sep 2020 10:28 UTC
40 points
7 comments9 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

EA Meta Fund and Long-Term Fu­ture Fund are look­ing for ap­pli­ca­tions again un­til Oc­to­ber 11th

D_M_x13 Sep 2019 19:34 UTC
35 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

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

agdfoster15 May 2020 12:28 UTC
48 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

2018-2019 Long-Term Fu­ture Fund Gran­tees: How did they do?

NunoSempere16 Jun 2021 17:31 UTC
194 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

APPG for Fu­ture Gen­er­a­tions Im­pact Re­port 2020 − 2021

weeatquince🔸26 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC
59 points
4 comments25 min readEA link

Ma­jor Dona­tion: Long Term Fu­ture Fund Ap­pli­ca­tion Ex­tended 1 Week

Habryka [Deactivated]16 Feb 2019 23:28 UTC
41 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: De­cem­ber 2021 grant recommendations

abergal18 Aug 2022 20:50 UTC
68 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Novem­ber 2020 grant recommendations

Habryka [Deactivated]3 Dec 2020 12:57 UTC
76 points
5 comments14 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

EA Funds or­gani­sa­tional up­date: Open Philan­thropy match­ing and distancing

calebp2 Aug 2023 1:28 UTC
126 points
40 comments5 min readEA link

Long Term Fu­ture Fund: Novem­ber grant decisions

Habryka [Deactivated]2 Dec 2018 0:26 UTC
35 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Novem­ber 2019 short grant writeups

Habryka [Deactivated]5 Jan 2020 0:15 UTC
46 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

Some con­cerns about policy work fund­ing and the Long Term Fu­ture Fund

weeatquince🔸12 Aug 2022 13:54 UTC
124 points
49 comments6 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: July 2021 grant recommendations

abergal18 Jan 2022 8:49 UTC
75 points
7 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] Do we have any *lists* of ‘aca­demics/​re­search groups rele­vant/​ad­ja­cent to EA’ … and open sci­ence?

david_reinstein30 Mar 2022 15:36 UTC
16 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

How much dona­tions are needed to neu­tral­ise the an­nual x-risk foot­print of the mean hu­man?

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Sep 2022 6:41 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Q1 2025 Long-Term Fu­ture Fund grant round

Linch20 Dec 2024 2:17 UTC
53 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

End of Year Char­i­ta­ble Fund Up­dates Are Great

T_W3 Aug 2024 13:09 UTC
20 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Changes to EA Funds man­age­ment teams (June 2019)

SamDeere9 Jul 2019 23:30 UTC
28 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How does the col­lapse of the FTX Fu­ture Fund change the pic­ture for in­di­vi­d­ual donors?

vipulnaik1 Dec 2022 4:59 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Does the Long-Term Fu­ture Fund provide fund­ing for any­thing be­sides AI and biose­cu­rity?

FJehn28 Aug 2025 16:04 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Clos­ing the LTFF, Spend­ing Down Funds, and a New AI Fund at EA Funds

calebp11 Aug 2026 8:58 UTC
68 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Some un­fun les­sons I learned as a ju­nior grantmaker

Linch23 May 2022 16:31 UTC
367 points
58 comments13 min readEA link
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