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Future of Life Institute

Name: Future of Life Institute grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

24
grants reported: $107.9M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $492,430
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

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Grant history

All 24 reported grants, largest first.

$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
$10.0M
Silicon Valley Community Foundation · 2021
Charitable work in support of fli's mission
$6.5M
Lightcone Foundation · Sparks, NV · 2023
Grant to fund lightcone foundation
$3.3M
Improve the News Foundation · 2021
Improved truth-finding tools
$3.0M
Improve the News Foundation · New Castle, DE · 2022
Grant to support itns efforts to improve the informational ecosystem
$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.
$2.1M
Improve the News Foundation · New Castle, DE · 2023
Grant to support itns efforts to improve the informational ecosystem
$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
$1.1M
Biocomplexity Survival Alliance · Scotts Valley, CA · 2022
Support to launch the wise ancestors platform, supporting the conservation of earth's biodiversity
$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).
$292,264
Caf America · Alexandria, VA · 2023
To support sponsored projects teeside university, uqam foundation and international institute for applied systems analysis
$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.
$161,865
Good Ventures Foundation · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Support for ai fellowship program supporting promising machine learning researchers
$120,000
The Future Society · 2021
Advocacy around the eu ai act
$100,000
Longview Philantrophy USA · Claymont, DE · 2024
Finding solutions to collective action problems.
$35,000
The Future Society · Boston, MA · 2023
Advocacy to align artificial intelligence through better governance
$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

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.