Long-Term Future Fund
The Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF) is one of four funds managed by Effective Altruism Funds. It makes grants to individuals and organizations working to reduce global catastrophic risks, with a strong emphasis on existential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. The fund supports technical AI safety research, AI governance and policy work, biosecurity, field-building, career transitions into x-risk work, and infrastructure for longtermist projects. With a team of experienced fund managers drawn from leading AI safety organizations, the LTFF evaluates hundreds of applications per year and has distributed over $20 million in grants since its inception, often serving as an early funder for researchers and small projects that larger funders cannot easily reach.
Funding Details
- Annual Budget
- $12,000,000
- Monthly Burn Rate
- $1,000,000
- Current Runway
- -
- Funding Goal
- -
- Funding Raised to Date
- $20,000,000
- Fiscal Sponsor
- Effective Ventures Foundation
Theory of Change
The Long-Term Future Fund operates on the theory that global catastrophic risks, particularly from advanced artificial intelligence, pose a severe threat to humanity's long-term future, and that targeted grants to researchers, policy advocates, and field-builders can meaningfully reduce these risks. By funding technical AI safety research (interpretability, alignment, scalable oversight), the fund aims to make AI systems safer before dangerous capabilities emerge. By supporting governance and policy work, it seeks to establish guardrails around AI development. By funding career transitions, training, and community infrastructure, it helps grow the pipeline of people working on existential risks, addressing a critical talent bottleneck. The fund's hits-based grantmaking approach recognizes that in a domain with high uncertainty, funding many high-potential projects (even with individually uncertain outcomes) maximizes the expected reduction in existential risk. Its niche as a funder of smaller, earlier-stage grants fills a gap that larger institutional funders like Open Philanthropy cannot easily reach, enabling it to identify and support promising work at its earliest stages.
Grants Received
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 18, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC