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That’s not up to us! Since any participating funders maintain full discretion about where their funding goes, there is no super short and simple description of what projects will get funding. That said, I am happy to say a few things about what the funders who are currently participating in the platform have historically funded and have publicly said about their giving priorities.

One of the biggest funders in the upcoming round is Jaan Tallinn who has conveniently written publicly about his philanthropic priorities. He has also been the primary funder behind the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which has made all of its grant recommendations over the last 6+ years public.

At a high level, I would summarize Jaan’s giving as "a very intellectually diverse approach to trying to shape the long-term future of humanity". His giving has historically involved recruiting people he respects with quite different perspectives on the world, and giving them lots of latitude on what they can recommend funding to.

This has produced grants ranging from "advocacy to give legal rights to rivers" to "longevity research" to funding for pronatalist.org, and AI x-risk reduction work at Palisade Research. The bulk of his funding goes to work aimed at aligning, controlling or otherwise shaping superintelligent AI systems, but the tail of his giving is very diverse and it’s hard to rule out much ambitious charity.

One of the other big funders for the first round is Dustin Moskovitz. His most recent essay about his giving is probably most helpful for understanding his perspective. Coefficient Giving (previously known as Open Philanthropy) has also facilitated over a billion dollars of grants of his, many of which are publicly available on their fund pages.

The Long Term Future Fund and the ARM Fund are both contributing ~$2M each for this round. They both focus almost exclusively on how we can shape the development of AI in a positive direction, but are also both open to infrastructure-level interventions to achieve that aim, such as by funding Effective Altruist, Rationality or AI-safety community building, supporting U.S. voting reform, and occasionally the LTFF might also make a grant to avoid other existential risks, like engineered pandemics.

The rest of the funding comes from smaller donors or anonymous donors whose giving I know little about! My guess is they will also skew pretty focused on AI existential risk topics, but I really have a lot of uncertainty here.

No! We can make grants to 501c3s, individuals, and for-profit organizations. For individuals, we will determine whether your work qualifies as charitable, and provide you with fiscal sponsorship if so. Some of our funders can only make charitable grants (but others aren’t limited to charitable grants, so you will be considered in either case).

No! We accept applications from anyone internationally. However, there are some countries where it is in my experience approximately impossible to send money to (in particular Russia and India), so it’s pretty likely we can’t make a grant to you if you are located in one of those places.

We accept rolling applications, with a deadline two months in advance of when grants are recommended. The current round closes on August 23, 2026, for grant recommendations made by (roughly) October 23, 2026. Any applications after that will get a response by (roughly) January 23, 2027.

We try hard to make the application process quick and straightforward. The application has only four required sections:

1. What are you working on?

2. What would you do with funding?

3. Who is involved?

4. Logistical details about your project

You can structure your answers to the first three questions however you want, and the application interface is a live-editable collaborative document.

We might also already have an application from you, if you applied to the Long Term Future Fund, Manifund, or grantmaking.ai in the past few months. If so, you should have received an email with instructions on how to get edit access to your imported applications.

You can update and edit your application any time after you submit it, so don’t worry about getting it all perfect immediately. If your plans have changed, we encourage you to revise your proposal accordingly.

After the application deadline, evaluators and funders using the platform will consider your proposal and make recommendations for how much funding they think it should receive. You can read more about our evaluators and how recommendations work in the Funder FAQ. Any applications received after the deadline will be evaluated in the next round, three months later.

Most projects will hear back when we announce recommendations, usually two months after the application deadline (October 23rd for the first round). You should receive money within a month after that (and technically you could fail due diligence as we try to send you money, though I expect that to happen very rarely, and it can take longer if you are located outside of the US).

Some projects may hear back shortly after submitting, if your project appeals to a direct grantor (individuals who were given a budget by a funder to unilaterally make grants). Direct grants will be limited for the first round, but our goal is that in future rounds most successful applicants will receive at least partial funding within 1-2 weeks of applying.

You can submit multiple applications for your organization, but please try to avoid them being mutually exclusive or overlapping too much. We might consolidate applications ourselves on the backend if you submit multiple, and leave it up to you how to allocate funding between your projects if you do get funding.

If you submitted to grantmaking.ai and Manifund, or the LTFF, we may have imported your application. If your application was imported, you should have received an email with a sign-in link. You can also sign in with the same email address to claim your account.