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Global Catastrophic Risk Institute

organization

Other existential riskEA infrastructure

Received
$666,652
from 5 funders
Grants
13
Funders
5
Years active
2017–24

Grants over time

$0$100K$200K$300K$400K20172018201920202021202220232024

Biggest funders

Jaan Tallinn$573,00086%9
Jed McCaleb$50,0008%1
Effective Altruism Grants$23,6474%1
Donor lottery$20,0003%1
Patrick Brinich-Langlois$50%1

Grants received

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Nov 21, 2024Jaan TallinnFounders Pledge$43,000Other existential riskjaan_onlineGeneral support
Oct 30, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$53,000Other existential risksffGeneral support of Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
May 2022Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$15,000Other existential risksffGeneral support of Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
Jul 2021Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$48,000Other existential risksffGeneral Support of Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
Dec 2020Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$209,000Other existential risksffGeneral Support of Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
Jun 2020Jed McCalebSurvival and Flourishing Fund$50,000Other existential risksffGeneral Support of Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
Jun 2020Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$90,000Other existential risksffGeneral Support of Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
Dec 2019Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$30,000Other existential risksffGeneral Support of GCRI
Sep 5, 2019Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$60,000Other existential riskvipul_donationsThe Survival and Flourishing Fund website gives the name of the grantee as 'Global Catastrophic Risks Institute'. The grant is made via Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs.
Nov 27, 2018Patrick Brinich-Langlois$5Other existential riskvipul_donations
Nov 12, 2018Donor lottery$20,000Other existential riskvipul_donationsThe blog post explaining the donation contains an extensive discussion of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI). Highlight: "Overall I am moderately excited about supporting the work of GCRI and in particular Seth Baum. I am pessimistic about room for growth, with recruitment being a major challenge, similar to that faced by AI Impacts. [...] At their current budget level, additional funding is a factor for whether Seth continues to work at GCRI full-time. Accordingly I would recommend donations sufficient to ensure Seth can continue his work. I would encourage donors to consider funding GCRI to scale beyond this, but to first obtain more information regarding their long-term plans and recruitment strategy." Earlier in the post: "If I had an additional $100k to donate, I would first check AI Impacts current recruitment situation; if there are promising hires that are bottlenecked on funding, I would likely allocate it there. Otherwise, I would split it equally between ALLFED and GCRI."
Jan 24, 2018Jaan TallinnBerkeley Existential Risk Initiative$25,000Other existential riskjaan_onlineGeneral support for Global Catastrophic Risks Institute
Sep 29, 2017Effective Altruism Grants$23,647EA infrastructurevipul_donationsResearch modeling risks and writing policy/strategy posts. His work will be based at the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute. He will also do self-study based on recommendations from the likes of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and 80,000 Hours' syllabi. See http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1fc/effective_altruism_grants_project_update/ for more context about the grant program.