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The Falcon Fund, led by Manifund regrantor Marcus Abramovitch, has $500k to give away. (This includes the funds on the Manifund page as well as another $250k committed.) It makes rapid (1-week timescale), early-stage grants in animal welfare, particularly the intersection of animals and transformative AI. The Falcon Fund has...
Austin: I’m happy to announce that Caroline Ellison has accepted a role at Manifund, to develop our funding platform and research how to effectively direct philanthropic dollars. In fact, she started a work trial on July 13, which converted to a fulltime role on Aug 10. Over the past two...
What is Manifund? In What happened to impact markets? Austin laid out a brief history of Manifund and explanation of who and what we are. The perhaps grandiose goal of Manifund is to solve the problem of philanthropic capital allocation. In practice, over a few years, we’ve … done a...
When researching recent projects—impact markets, FundingBench, and AI Safety Funder Bulletin—we kept coming across similar questions that were a bit of a pain to answer. How much money had someone raised, and when? What kind of things was someone funding? So we decided to put together as comprehensive a database...
In the past three years, Manifund has run a regranting program, in which external donors who are less enmeshed in AI safety can delegate a budget to people with expertise, good track records, and wide networks. This year, we’re also offering the option to join as a self-funded regrantor. If...
Following up on Regranting in 2026, here are some people we’d be excited to have as regrantors! Good regrantors have at least one, and preferably more than one, of taste, dealflow, and hustle. We’ve divided them into rough categories with a bit of explanation, though many of these people could...
Check out our demo at impact-exchange.org In 2022 the Long-Term Future Fund donated $343,000 to MATS; on our impact exchange, that would now be worth over $4 million. Back in 2017, EA Grants (run by CEA) made an $86,000 donation to what became Lightcone Infrastructure; on our exchange, that donation...