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The Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF), one of four funds managed by Effective Ventures Foundation through EA Funds, makes grants addressing global catastrophic risks with a primary focus on advanced artificial intelligence safety and alignment.
Funding priorities include: technical AI safety and alignment research (interpretability, scalable oversight, alignment theory, evaluations); AI governance and policy analysis; researcher training and career transitions into AI safety; biorisk and pandemic prevention; existential risk identification and mitigation; longtermist institutional design; and infrastructure supporting work on civilizational resilience.
The fund accepts rolling applications without fixed deadlines, processing applications in batches with decisions typically within one to three months. About half of LTFF funding originates from Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), with additional donor support.
Funded projects span independent research grants for graduate students and post-PhD researchers, conference and workshop funding, training and upskilling stipends, and small organizations advancing AI safety research and policy work.
The fund is particularly open to unconventional projects, early-career researchers, and applicants without institutional affiliations who can articulate clear theories of impact for reducing existential risk.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Open to individuals, small teams, and organizations globally. Applicants include independent researchers, graduate students, postdocs, academics, policy researchers, and early-stage organizations. Funding can support stipends, research expenses, travel, computing resources, salary buyouts, and organizational operating costs. Applicants must demonstrate alignment with longtermist priorities, particularly reducing risks from transformative AI. No formal academic credentials required; the fund evaluates the strength of the proposed theory of impact. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows grants typically range from $5,000 to $200,000 USD per project, with most awards between $20,000 and $80,000 for individual researchers and small teams over 3 to 12 months. The fund makes approximately $2 to $5 million in grants per year across all priority areas, with AI safety as the largest funding category. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Long-Term Future Fund LTFF Grants for AI Safety Alignment and Existential Risk Research is funded by Effective Ventures Foundation (operator of EA Funds, supported by Coefficient Giving). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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