Future of Life Institute

Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Recent grants

The 24 grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $2.5M

  Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Mountain View, CA · 2024

  Support sponsored projects encode, tarbell, the elders, the collective intelligence project, and university research into the consequences of nuclear war.

• $1.5M

  International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence · San Diego, CA · 2024

  General support for addressing the risks and opportunities associated with rapid advances in ai

• $750,000

  Federation of American Scientists · Washington, DC · 2024

  To investigate the implications of artificial intelligence on global risk.

• $619,861

  Caf America · Alexandria, VA · 2024

  Support for university research into the consequences of nuclear war.

• $365,000

  Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative · Covina, CA · 2024

  Support for collaboration with the center for human-compatible artificial intelligence (chai).

• $247,000

  Foresight Institute · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  Support to design and create worldbuilding course and toolbox.

• $169,000

  Wise Ancestors · Scotts Valley, CA · 2024

  Conservation of earth's biodiversity for the benefit of all.

• $100,000

  Longview Philantrophy USA · Claymont, DE · 2024

  Finding solutions to collective action problems.

• $25,000

  Future Coalition · Denver, CO · 2024

  Advocacy for a future with human-centered artificial intelligence.

• $15,000

  Legal Priorities · Boston, MA · 2024

  Research into global governance institution design.

• $15,000

  Metagov · Brookline, MA · 2024

  Research into global governance institution design.

• $10,000

  Effct · Denver, CO · 2024

  Superintelligence imagined contest award

• $6.5M

  Lightcone Foundation · Sparks, NV · 2023

  Grant to fund lightcone foundation

• $2.1M

  Improve the News Foundation · New Castle, DE · 2023

  Grant to support itns efforts to improve the informational ecosystem

• $292,264

  Caf America · Alexandria, VA · 2023

  To support sponsored projects teeside university, uqam foundation and international institute for applied systems analysis

• $35,000

  The Future Society · Boston, MA · 2023

  Advocacy to align artificial intelligence through better governance

• $50.0M

  Lightcone Foundation · Sparks, NV · 2022

  Grant to establish the lightcone foundation, a related organization to fli

• $25.0M

  Future of Life Foundation · Campbell, CA · 2022

  Grant to establish and fund the future of life foundation, a related organization to fli

• $3.0M

  Improve the News Foundation · New Castle, DE · 2022

  Grant to support itns efforts to improve the informational ecosystem

• $1.1M

  Biocomplexity Survival Alliance · Scotts Valley, CA · 2022

  Support to launch the wise ancestors platform, supporting the conservation of earth's biodiversity

• $161,865

  Good Ventures Foundation · Palo Alto, CA · 2022

  Support for ai fellowship program supporting promising machine learning researchers

• $10.0M

  Silicon Valley Community Foundation · 2021

  Charitable work in support of fli's mission

• $3.3M

  Improve the News Foundation · 2021

  Improved truth-finding tools

• $120,000

  The Future Society · 2021

  Advocacy around the eu ai act