Up to $500,000 for High-Impact Projects – Effective Altruism Funds

Effective Altruism Funds (EA Funds) provides grants for high-impact projects tackling major global challenges. It focuses on areas where problems are particularly important, tractable and comparatively underfunded.

Here’s what you can expect:

• $1,000–$500,000 in grant funding

• Applications are accepted year-round

• Funding for individuals as well as organisations

• Support for new and existing projects

• Funding for nonprofit organisations and institutions

• Applications typically take less than an hour

• Funding decisions are based heavily on expected impact and cost-effectiveness

• Applicants don't necessarily need to be a registered charity

• Different funds support different types of high-impact work.

Current funding areas include:

• Animal Welfare – improving the wellbeing of animals, particularly neglected species and regions

• EA Infrastructure – projects improving access to talent, funding and knowledge for high-impact work

• Transformative AI – projects addressing catastrophic risks from advanced AI and other long-term risks

• The Global Health and Development Fund is currently not accepting applications.

Who can apply?

• Individuals

• New projects

• Existing projects

• Nonprofit organisations

• Institutions

• Researchers and other people undertaking high-impact work

• Applicants internationally, subject to the relevant fund and its priorities

EA Funds is particularly interested in proposals that can demonstrate a strong potential to create significant positive impact relative to the funding required.

Deadline: Rolling – applications are always open.