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Rethink Priorities

organization · Rethink Priorities (General Longtermism Team), Rethink Priorities (RP), The AI Governance & Strategy team within Rethink Priorities, The Rethink Priorities Existential Security Team (XST)

Animal welfareTechnical AI safety researchGlobal health and developmentAI governance, policy, and advocacyOther

Received
$31,483,155
from 27 funders
Grants
95
Funders
27
Years active
2018–26

Grants over time

$0$2.5M$5.0M$7.5M$10M201820192020202120222023202420252026

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$25,785,84082%29
Animal Welfare Fund$2,026,9736%15
Jaan Tallinn$1,975,5006%15
FTX Future Fund$700,0002%1
EA Infrastructure Fund$650,4082%12
Longview Philanthropy$249,0001%2
Long-Term Future Fund$70,0000%1
Patrick Brinich-Langlois$22,4920%1

Grants received

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Apr 2026Coefficient Giving$927,744Evalscoefficient_givingDevelopment of the Holistic Agent Leaderboard
2026The Navigation Fund—Otherorg_reportedThe Navigation Fund stepped in and committed to sustaining our insect welfare portfolio through 2026
Oct 2025Coefficient Giving$585,468Evalscoefficient_givingEvaluation of AI Agent Risk Attitudes
Oct 2025Coefficient Giving$593,333Animal welfarecoefficient_givingFarm Animal Welfare Research
Oct 2025Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$39,843Animal welfareea_funds3-day forum for movement leaders to identify scalable, cost-effective opportunities to accelerate animal advocacy
Sep 2025Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$28,000Strategy & forecastingsffGeneral support of AI Strategy Team
Sep 2025Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$166,000Strategy & forecastingsffGeneral support of Worldview Investigation Team
Aug 2025Coefficient Giving$6,116,133Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_giving"Truthful AI" Research Group
Apr 2025Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$214,678Animal welfareea_funds1-year stipend for a Program Lead to scale neglected animal welfare work + flexible fund for time-sensitive opportunities
Mar 2025Coefficient Giving$1,500,000EA infrastructure, Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingGlobal Health & Development Team Support
Jan 2025EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$106,653EA infrastructureea_fundsEmpowering Rethink Priorities to strengthen EA's public image through strategic media engagement and audience growth
Dec 2024Coefficient Giving$42,054Animal welfarecoefficient_givingFish Welfare Conference
Oct 30, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$99,000Strategy & forecastingsffGeneral support
Oct 13, 2024Ryan KiddManifund$1,000Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Oct 2024EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$66,789EA infrastructureea_fundsDeveloping an actionable model for guiding EA resource allocation between movement-building and direct impact
Oct 2024EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$50,000EA infrastructureea_fundsConduct a survey (and potentially interviews) with people who bounced off or dropped out of EA
Oct 2024Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$55,000Animal welfareea_fundsA 3-day Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum for movement leaders and key decision makers
Sep 2024Coefficient Giving$19,354EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingStrategy Workshop
Sep 14, 2024James FavilleManifund$50Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024David MossManifund$100Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024Henri ThunbergManifund$50Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024ChastenierManifund$100Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024Tim PolkowskiManifund$50Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024EA Community ChoiceManifund$792Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024Kevin XiaManifund$25Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024Sierra HollowellManifund$50Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024Andrew GimberManifund$100Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024AllisonManifund$100Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024Dan WahlManifund$25Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024442c90ab-ff50-4d4e-b9e6-2b1d20b044f1Manifund$50Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024Thomas Manandhar-RichardsonManifund$100Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024Bob FischerManifund$100Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024Leon BorgdorfManifund$50Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Sep 14, 2024Rachel MasonManifund$200Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Jul 25, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$10,000AI governance, policy, and advocacyjaan_onlineGeneral support for Institute for AI Policy and Strategy
Jul 15, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$10,000Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for the Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute
Jun 27, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$20,000AI governance, policy, and advocacyjaan_onlineGeneral support for Institute for AI Policy and Strategy
May 3, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$10,000Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for Apollo Research
Apr 2024Coefficient Giving$115,887Strategy & forecastingcoefficient_givingResearch on LLM Use
Apr 2024Coefficient Giving$88,240EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingEffective Altruism Brand Strategy Research
Jan 2024Coefficient Giving$2,100,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingGeneral Support
Jan 2024Coefficient Giving$3,253,550Animal welfarecoefficient_givingFarm Animal Welfare Research Support
Jan 2024Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$253,388Animal welfareea_fundsCosts for several projects to identify likely impactful, tractable interventions for wild animals & begin implementation
2024Longview Philanthropy$219,000AI governance, policy, and advocacylongviewFY2024 Form 990 Schedule I, Longview Philanthropy USA Inc: 'Supporting public-interest, expert-led research and collaboration to strengthen best practices for AI governance in Europe.' Likely part of the ECF 'Six EU civil society organisations' $733k aggregate. — Longview Philanthropy USA Inc direct grant (990 Schedule I)
Jan 2024Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$40,364Animal welfareea_fundsA 3-day Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum (AASF) for movement leaders and key decision makers
Nov 2023Coefficient Giving$670,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingGeneral and Research Support
Nov 20, 2023Jaan TallinnLightspeed Grants$239,500Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for Apollo Research
Oct 26, 2023Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$49,000Technical AI safety researchsffGeneral Support of The Rethink Priorities Existential Security Team (XST)
Oct 26, 2023Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$402,000Strategy & forecastingsffGeneral Support of The AI Governance & Strategy team within Rethink Priorities
Oct 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$15,000EA infrastructureea_fundsStaff costs to run, analyze and report on a followup to the 2022 EA Survey in 2023
Oct 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$10,000EA infrastructureea_fundsStaff time to publish our backlog of reports and improve research dissemination within ~3 months of receiving funds
Sep 2023Coefficient Giving$35,000EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingStrategy Workshop
Jul 11, 2023Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$100,000Otherjaan_onlineFor general operating support
Jul 3, 2023Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$145,000Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for the Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute
Jul 2023EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$9,000EA infrastructureea_fundsStaff costs to cover a survey of talent needs in the effective altruism landscape
Jun 28, 2023Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$490,000Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for Apollo Research
Apr 2023Coefficient Giving$154,810AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingAI Governance Research
Apr 2023Coefficient Giving$302,390AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingAI Governance Workshop
Apr 2023Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$295,600Animal welfareea_fundsSupport annual salaries of max 9 employees (6 FTE) and other expenses to advance invertebrate and wild animal research
Feb 2023Coefficient Giving$268,684Animal welfarecoefficient_givingAnimal Welfare Field-Building
Feb 2023Coefficient Giving$15,000Animal welfarecoefficient_givingMoral Weight Book Rights
Dec 2022Coefficient Giving$690,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingGlobal Health and Wellbeing Research (Contract)
Dec 2022Longview Philanthropy$30,000Other existential risklongviewSupporting researchers and research staff working on existential risk. Longtermism Fund December 2022 grants report. — Emerging Challenges Fund (formerly Longtermism Fund)
Oct 2022Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$85,000Animal welfareea_fundsA 3-day forum to connect, coordinate, and strategize for the EAA movement
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$57,238Epistemic infrastructureea_fundsYearly salary for weekly written summaries of the top EA and LW forum posts, and a human-narrated podcast for the former.
Sep 2022Coefficient Giving$468,004Animal welfarecoefficient_givingAnimal Welfare Research
Jul 2022Coefficient Giving$120,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingResearch Assistant and Expenses
Jul 2022Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$64,000Animal welfareea_fundsEmpirically determine diets for farmed adult Black Soldier Flies that maximize welfare and guide industry best practices
Jul 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$51,200EA infrastructureea_fundsSurvey team of up to 7 researchers, 3 summer research fellows, productivity stipends and equipment for 50 staff members
Jun 2022Coefficient Giving$40,000Animal welfarecoefficient_givingDimensions of Welfare Workshop
May 2022Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$150,000Technical AI safety researchsffGeneral support
Mar 2022Coefficient Giving$2,728,319AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingAI Governance Research
Jan 2022Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$250,000Animal welfareea_fundsWild animal welfare and invertebrate welfare research
2022FTX Future Fund$700,000Otherftx_future_fundWe recommended a grant to support Rethink’s research and projects aimed at improving humanity’s long-term prospects. — Research That Can Help Us Improve
Sep 2021Coefficient Giving$2,000,000Animal welfarecoefficient_givingFarm Animal Welfare Research
Jul 2021Coefficient Giving$612,185AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingAI Governance Research (Contract)
Jul 2021EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$14,228EA infrastructureea_fundsAdditional funding to cover costs of hiring research interns and visiting fellows
Jul 2021Coefficient Giving$495,685AI governance, policy, and advocacyvipul_donationsGrant "to support research projects on topics related to AI governance."
Apr 2021Coefficient Giving$418,500Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingGlobal Health and Wellbeing Cause Research (Contract)
Mar 2021Coefficient Giving$315,500Animal welfarecoefficient_givingMoral Patienthood and Moral Weight Research
Jan 2021Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$309,100Animal welfareea_fundsGeneral Support
Jan 2021Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$70,000Domestic policyea_fundsFund 2 FTE of longtermism-focused researchers for 1 year to do policy/security, forecasting, & message testing research
Jan 2021EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$248,300EA infrastructureea_fundsCompensation for 7 research interns across various EA causes, plus support for further EA movement strategy research
Dec 2020Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$57,000Technical AI safety researchsffGeneral Support
Nov 1, 2020Patrick Brinich-Langlois$22,492EA infrastructurevipul_donationsThe donations page says: "Restricted to longtermism and meta/movement-building."
Jul 2020Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$80,000Animal welfareea_fundsGeneral Support
Jan 2020Coefficient Giving$910,000Animal welfarecoefficient_givingFarm Animal Welfare Research
Aug 23, 2019EA Infrastructure Fund$12,000Other existential riskvipul_donationsGrant covers two projects: (1) geopolitical implications of climate change on mass migration (2) cost-effectiveness of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Aug 23, 2019Animal Welfare Fund$100,000Animal welfarevipul_donationsThe grant page says: "With this additional funding, they plan to research and publish on (i) ballot initiatives as an approach to help animals in the USA, (ii) finding concrete interventions in policy and invertebrate welfare with room for more funding, and (iii) wild animal welfare interventions and refining their wild animal welfare agenda."
Mar 2019Coefficient Giving$200,000Animal welfarecoefficient_givingFarm Animal Welfare Research
Jan 2019EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$10,000EA infrastructureea_fundsApply cost-effectiveness frameworks to uncertain domains, interventions aimed at animals welfare and understanding EA movement growth
Jan 2019Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$80,000Animal welfareea_fundsResearch into animal welfare interventions
Oct 2018Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$75,000Animal welfareea_fundsPrioritization and research into animal welfare interventions
Apr 2018Animal Welfare FundEA Funds$85,000Animal welfareea_fundsPrioritization and research into animal welfare interventions
—Macroscopic Ventures—Other existential riskmacroscopicCross-cause research including animal welfare, global catastrophic risks, and AI — General

As fiscal sponsor 6 · $1,993,000 · $332,167 average

Date ↓FunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Sep 2025Jaan TallinnCentre for AI Security and Access (CASA)Survival and Flourishing Fund$325,000Technical AI safety researchsffGeneral support of Centre for AI Security and Access
Sep 2025Jaan TallinnInstitute for AI Policy and StrategySurvival and Flourishing Fund$572,000Domestic policysffGeneral support of The Institute for AI Policy and Strategy
Oct 30, 2024Jaan TallinnApollo ResearchSurvival and Flourishing Fund$251,000InterpretabilitysffGeneral support of Apollo Research
Oct 30, 2024Jaan TallinnQuantified Uncertainty Research InstituteSurvival and Flourishing Fund$62,000EvalssffGeneral support of The Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute
Oct 30, 2024Jaan TallinnInstitute for AI Policy and StrategySurvival and Flourishing Fund$183,000Domestic policysffGeneral support of Institute for AI Policy and Strategy
2024Jaan TallinnEpoch AISurvival and Flourishing Fund$600,000Strategy & forecastingsffGeneral support