Pennsylvania · Public charity
Future of Life Institute
To support the future of life foundation by steering transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks.
- $7.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $6.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $247,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,470,096
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Future of Life Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $3.2M | 90% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $8.6M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $79M | 80% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $3.4M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $39k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $500k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lightcone Foundation | $56,518,058 | 2 | 31% |
| Future of Life Foundation | $25,025,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Improve the News Foundation | $8,300,000 | 3 | 100% |
| International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Biocomplexity Survival Alliance | $1,282,685 | 2 | 100% |
| Federation of American Scientists | $750,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $365,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Non-Violence International | $279,372 | 1 | n/a |
| The Foresight Institute | $247,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Future Society Inc | $180,000 | 3 | 16% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lightcone Foundation | $56,518,058 | 2 | 31% |
| Future of Life Foundation | $25,025,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Improve the News Foundation | $8,300,000 | 3 | 100% |
| International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Biocomplexity Survival Alliance | $1,282,685 | 2 | 100% |
| Federation of American Scientists | $750,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $365,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Non-Violence International | $279,372 | 1 | n/a |
| The Foresight Institute | $247,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Future Society Inc | $180,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Good Ventures Foundation | $161,865 | 1 | 0% |
| The Pax Christi Fund for Peace | $111,747 | 1 | 24% |
| Longview Philanthropy USA Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Scientists Against Inhumane Weapons Inc | $48,938 | 1 | n/a |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc | $37,500 | 1 | 0% |
| March On | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Metagov Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Legal Priorities Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Effct | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Applied Rationality | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sapiens Plurum | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Future of Life Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Founders Pledge Inc · Good Ventures Foundation · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Future of Life Institute
- How much does Future of Life Institute give?
- Future of Life Institute reported 12 itemized grants totaling $6,285,957, out of $7,457,618 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Future of Life Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (79%), Philanthropy (12%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Future of Life Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Lightcone Foundation ($57M), Future of Life Foundation ($25M), Improve the News Foundation ($8.3M).
- Does Future of Life Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Future of Life Institute?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Founders Pledge Inc, Good Ventures Foundation.
- Where is Future of Life Institute based?
- Future of Life Institute is based in PA.
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