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Future Fund

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

Activities

The Future Fund provided grants to:²⁾

Staff³⁾
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

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.⁴⁾

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⁾ , ⁴⁾

About. Future Fund. Retrieved November 11, 2022, from https://archive.ph/1qmEs