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Future Fund

The Future Fund was a funding project of the FTX Foundation, launched in February 2022.1)

Activities

Grants

The Future Fund provided grants to:2) 3) 4)

Organization

Personnel

Staff5)
Name Affiliation(s)
Nick Beckstead FTX Foundation, Open Philanthropy, Future of Humanity Institute, Centre for Effective Altruism
Leopold Aschenbrenner Global Priorities Institute, Forethought Foundation
Avital Balwit Future of Humanity Institute
William MacAskill University of Oxford, Global Priorities Institute, Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Ketan Ramakrishnan Oxford University Press
Board
Sam Bankman-Fried FTX
Caroline Ellison Alameda Research, Jane Street Capital
Gary Wang FTX, Google
Nishad Singh FTX, Facebook

Funding

It was funded primarily by Sam Bankman-Fried, with major contributions from Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh, all of whom served as members of the board for the fund.6)

1)
Salvo, M. D. (2022, February 28). FTX Pledges Up to $1 Billion for Philanthropic Fund to “Improve Humanity.” Decrypt. https://decrypt.co/94045/ftx-1-billion-philanthropic-future-fund-improve-humanity
2)
Our Grants, Investments, and Regrants. Future Fund. Retrieved November 26, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221126225452/https://ftxfuturefund.org/all-grants/
3)
Kahn, J. (2022, November 15). Is the collapse of Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto empire the end of Effective Altruism? Fortune. https://archive.ph/zK2G1
4)
Our Grants and Investments. Future Fund. Retrieved September 10, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220910082348/https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=ad-hoc
5) , 6)
About. Future Fund. Retrieved November 11, 2022, from https://archive.ph/1qmEs