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Centre for Effective Altruism

organization · CEA, Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), Centre for Effective Altruism, Oxford, Centre For Effective Altruism Usa Inc.

EA infrastructureOther existential riskOtherAI safety fieldbuildingAI safety meta

Received
$137,956,619
from 11 funders
Grants
67
Funders
11
Years active
2013–26

Grants over time

$0$20M$40M$60M20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$123,178,02889%23
FTX Future Fund$13,940,00010%1
Jaan Tallinn$377,1980%18
Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman$206,9520%9
Long-Term Future Fund$162,5370%1
EA Infrastructure Fund$76,0610%3
Haseeb Qureshi$10,6000%1
Patrick Brinich-Langlois$5,0750%4

Biggest recipients

AI Safety Camp$3,485100%1

Grants received

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Feb 2026Coefficient Giving$9,200,000EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingGeneral Support
Sep 2025Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$117,000EA infrastructuresffGeneral support of Centre for Effective Altruism
Jul 2025Coefficient Giving$3,070,700Other existential riskcoefficient_givingTrajan House
Mar 2025Coefficient Giving$430,000EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingEvents and Travel Support
Sep 2024Coefficient Giving$322,536Other existential riskcoefficient_givingGroups Team Support
May 2024Coefficient Giving$31,229,571Other existential riskcoefficient_givingGeneral Support
Oct 2023Coefficient Giving$710,042EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingGroups Team Support (EVF)
Oct 2023Coefficient Giving$276,127EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingGroups Team Support (EVF USA)
Jun 2023Coefficient Giving$11,000,000EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingGeneral Support (EVF)
Jan 2023Coefficient Giving$4,700,000EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingGeneral Support for the Centre for Effective Altruism
Aug 2022Coefficient Giving$250,000Local groupscoefficient_givingHarvard AI Safety Office
Aug 2022Coefficient Giving$8,875,000EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingHarvard Square Coworking Space
Mar 2022Coefficient Giving$26,000,000EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingGeneral Support
2022FTX Future Fund$13,940,000EA infrastructureftx_future_fundWe recommended a grant for general support for their activities, including running conferences, supporting student groups, and maintaining online resources. — Effective Altruism
Oct 2021Coefficient Giving$500,000Other existential riskcoefficient_givingEffective Altruism Infrastructure Fund
Feb 2021Coefficient Giving$7,500,000EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingGeneral Support
Jan 27, 2021Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$21,000Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for Center for Applied Utilitarianism
Dec 21, 2020Patrick Brinich-Langlois$10EA infrastructurevipul_donations
Dec 11, 2020Jaan TallinnFounders Pledge$21,000Otherjaan_onlineJason Crawford / Roots of Progress
Nov 2, 2020Patrick Brinich-Langlois$10EA infrastructurevipul_donationsThe donations page says: "This was made through Every.org, and I also gave the $25 referral bonus to the CEA."
Sep 2020Coefficient Giving$48,736Other existential riskcoefficient_givingLongtermist Project Incubator
Feb 2020Coefficient Giving$180,000Other existential riskcoefficient_givingLongtermist Project Incubator
Jan 2020Coefficient Giving$4,146,795Other existential riskcoefficient_givingGeneral Support and Community-Building Grants
Jan 2020Coefficient Giving$38,350Other existential riskcoefficient_givingSupport for The Precipice
Sep 2019Coefficient Giving$1,755,921Other existential riskcoefficient_givingGeneral Support and Community-Building Grants
Aug 23, 2019EA Infrastructure Fund$5,000EA infrastructurevipul_donationsGrant for CEA to use to pay Rethink Charity for "bespoke analysis of the results" of the 2019 EA Survey. This accompanies a separate $15,000 grant to Rethink Charity for the 2019 EA Survey.
Feb 2019Coefficient Giving$2,756,250Othercoefficient_givingGeneral Support
Nov 26, 2018Patrick Brinich-Langlois$55EA infrastructurevipul_donations
Oct 4, 2018Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$25,232Otherjaan_onlineDonation to 80,000 Hours ($25k)
Oct 2018EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$15,000EA infrastructureea_fundsCreate a global community of people who make helping others a core part of their lives, and who use evidence and scientific reasoning to figure out how to do so as effectively as possible
Aug 14, 2018EA Infrastructure Fund$56,061EA infrastructurevipul_donationsFunding from the Effective Altruism Community Fund; an accompanying payment from the Long-Term Future Fund of $162,537 was also made. Beckstead recommended that the grantee spend the money to save time and increase productivity of employees (for instance, by subsidizing childcare or electronics)
Jul 2018Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$162,537AI safety metaea_fundsFunding to trade money for saving the time or increasing the productivity of their employees (e.g. subsidizing electronics upgrades or childcare)
Jun 2018Coefficient Giving$2,688,000Other existential riskcoefficient_givingGeneral Support
May 9, 2018Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$24,698Otherjaan_onlineDonation to 80,000 Hours ($25k)
Mar 27, 2018Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$23,496Otherjaan_onlineDonation to 80,000 Hours ($25k)
Mar 2018Coefficient Giving$5,000,000Other existential riskcoefficient_givingDiscretionary Fund
Nov 13, 2017Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$35,645Otherjaan_onlineDonation to 80,000 Hours
Apr 21, 2017Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$10,413Otherjaan_onlineDonation to 80,000 Hours
Mar 2017Coefficient Giving$2,500,000Other existential riskcoefficient_givingGeneral Support
Jan 25, 2017Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$10,680Otherjaan_onlineDonation to 80,000 Hours
Nov 23, 2016Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$10,680Otherjaan_onlineDonation to 80,000 Hours
Sep 29, 2016Pablo Stafforini$96EA infrastructurevipul_donations
Aug 25, 2016Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$10,146Otherjaan_onlineDonation to 80,000 Hours
May 23, 2016Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$9,078Otherjaan_onlineDonation to 80,000 Hours
Jan 12, 2016Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$13,350Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Global Priorities Project
Jan 5, 2016Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$4,539Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Effective Altruism Outreach
2016EA Giving Group—EA infrastructurevipul_donationsActual date range: December 2015 to February 2016. Exact date, amount, or fraction not known, but it is the donee with the third highest amount donated out of six donees in this period. The original grant was to Effective Altruism Outreach, which is now a part of CEA
2016EA Giving Group—EA infrastructurevipul_donationsActual date range: February 2016 to December 2016. Exact date, amount, or fraction not known, but it is the donee with the highest amount donated out of three donees in this period. Money to be used at the discretion of William MacAskill
Dec 28, 2015Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman$34,152OtherjefftkPersonal donations
Dec 22, 2015Patrick Brinich-Langlois$5,000EA infrastructurevipul_donations
Dec 14, 2015Pablo Stafforini$72EA infrastructurevipul_donations
Oct 15, 2015Jaan Tallinn$8,678Otherjaan_onlineDonation
Jul 10, 2015Jaan TallinnSolenum Foundation$8,544Otherjaan_onlineDonation
Jul 3, 2015Jaan Tallinn$6,333Otherjaan_onlineCcoop donation
May 28, 2015Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman$50,000OtherjefftkPersonal donations
May 28, 2015Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman$6,000OtherjefftkEmployer donation match; (grey/italic row: not counted in Jeff's donation totals) — Personal donations
2015EA Giving Group—EA infrastructurevipul_donationsActual date range: December 2014 to December 2015. Exact date, amount, or fraction not known, but it is the donee with the highest amount donated out of eight donees in this period. The original grant was to Effective Altruism Outreach, which is now a part of the Centre for Effective Altruism
2015EA Giving Group—EA infrastructurevipul_donationsActual date range: December 2014 to December 2015. Exact date, amount, or fraction not known, but it is the donee with the seventh highest amount donated out of eight donees in this period. Money intended for regranting to local student groups, CEA is the intermediary for financing
2015Haseeb Qureshi$10,600EA infrastructurevipul_donationsDonation for the EA Outreach team run by Kerry Vaughan and Tyler Alterman. The announcement post says: "EA Outreach was responsible for EA Global, the major EA conference this year at Google HQ, and have ambitious plans on how to grow the movement and influence more of the world toward evidence-based giving."
Oct 3, 2014Jaan Tallinn$16,688Otherjaan_onlineDonation
Jul 28, 2014Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman$30,000OtherjefftkPersonal donations
Jan 8, 2014Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman$5,800OtherjefftkEmployer donation match; (grey/italic row: not counted in Jeff's donation totals) — Personal donations
Jan 8, 2014Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman$30,000OtherjefftkPersonal donations
Dec 28, 2013Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman$10,000OtherjefftkPersonal donations
Aug 11, 2013Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman$15,000OtherjefftkPersonal donations
Aug 8, 2013Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman$26,000OtherjefftkPersonal donations
—Longview Philanthropy—OtherlongviewFeatured grant on the 2023 archived longview.org site (no amount or description recoverable). — Longview advised/recommended grant

Grants made 2 · $3,485 · $3,485 average

Date ↓RecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Jun 7, 2018AI Safety Camp$3,485Training pipelinesvipul_donationsThe actual donation probably happened sometime between February and June 2018.
—Constance Li—Othergrantmaking_aiEA Animal Welfare Fund

Grants via 1 · $995,000 · $995,000 average

Date ↓FunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Jul 28, 2021Jaan TallinnLong-Term Future FundCentre for Effective Altruism$995,000Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for Long-Term Future Fund (EA Funds)

As fiscal sponsor 12 · $3,763,000 · $313,583 average

Date ↓FunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Oct 30, 2024Jaan TallinnAI Risk Mitigation FundSurvival and Flourishing Fund$530,000AI safetysffGeneral support of AI Risk Mitigation Fund
May 2022Jaan TallinnSimon Institute for Longterm GovernanceSurvival and Flourishing Fund$381,000Other existential risksffGeneral support of Simon Institute for Longterm Governance
Nov 20, 2021Jaan TallinnEA Infrastructure FundSurvival and Flourishing Fund$699,000OthersffGeneral Support of EA Infrastructure Fund
Nov 20, 2021Jaan TallinnCentre for the Governance of AI, Inc.Survival and Flourishing Fund$591,000AI governance, policy, and advocacysffGeneral Support of Centre for the Governance of AI
Jul 2021Jaan TallinnLong-Term Future FundSurvival and Flourishing Fund$675,000Other existential risksffGeneral support of Long-Term Future Fund
Dec 2020Jaan TallinnGeneration PledgeSurvival and Flourishing Fund$37,000Other existential risksffGeneral Support of Generation Pledge at the Centre for Effective Altruism
Jun 2020Jaan Tallinn80,000 HoursSurvival and Flourishing Fund$120,000EA infrastructuresffGeneral Support of 80,000 Hours
Jun 2020Jed McCaleb80,000 HoursSurvival and Flourishing Fund$30,000OthersffGeneral Support of 80,000 Hours
Jun 2020Jaan Tallinn80,000 HoursSurvival and Flourishing Fund$30,000OthersffGeneral Support of 80,000 Hours
Dec 2019Jaan Tallinn80,000 HoursSurvival and Flourishing Fund$40,000EA infrastructuresffGeneral Support of 80,000 Hours
Sep 2019Jaan Tallinn80,000 HoursSurvival and Flourishing Fund$280,000EA infrastructuresffGeneral Support
Apr 22, 2019Jaan Tallinn80,000 HoursBerkeley Existential Risk Initiative$350,000EA infrastructurejaan_onlineRestricted grant to 80,000 Hours