Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA)
The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is an organization dedicated to building and nurturing a global community of people who think carefully about the world's biggest problems and take action to solve them. CEA operates six core programs: the EA Global conference series, local group support for hundreds of EA groups worldwide, the EA Forum and online resources, community health services, communications and media engagement, and grantmaking through EA Funds. Founded in Oxford in 2011 by philosophers William MacAskill and Toby Ord as an umbrella for Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours, CEA has grown into the central coordinating organization for the effective altruism movement. Under CEO Zachary Robinson, CEA merged with EA Funds in July 2025 and is in the process of spinning out from Effective Ventures to become an independent entity.
Funding Details
- Annual Budget
- $21,800,000
- Monthly Burn Rate
- $1,816,667
- Current Runway
- -
- Funding Goal
- -
- Funding Raised to Date
- -
- Fiscal Sponsor
- Effective Ventures Foundation
Theory of Change
CEA's theory of change is that building a thriving, intellectually rigorous community of people committed to doing the most good is one of the highest-leverage interventions for addressing global catastrophic risks including AI safety. By running conferences that connect talented individuals with high-impact opportunities, maintaining the EA Forum as a knowledge commons, supporting hundreds of local groups worldwide, and distributing funding through EA Funds, CEA creates the human capital pipeline and institutional infrastructure needed for effective work on existential risks. Their approach is especially valuable on longer AI timelines, where community building compounds over time to produce more researchers, policy experts, and funders working on critical problems. CEA believes that careful stewardship of the EA community's intellectual culture and norms maximizes the probability that talented people will direct their careers toward the most pressing problems, including AI safety, biosecurity, and other x-risk domains.
Grants Received
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Open Philanthropy
from Long-Term Future Fund
Projects
A team within the Centre for Effective Altruism that works to strengthen the EA community's ability to have impact by addressing interpersonal harm, advising on risk management, and supporting healthy organizational cultures.
The EA Forum (forum.effectivealtruism.org) is the primary online discussion and publishing platform for the effective altruism community, run by the Centre for Effective Altruism.
The Online Team at CEA builds and maintains the EA Forum, effectivealtruism.org, and the EA Newsletter, providing the primary digital infrastructure for discussion, research, and coordination within the effective altruism community.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 18, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC