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“Long-Term Future Fund: March 2024 Payout recommendations” by Linch


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Introduction.

This payout report covers the Long-Term Future Fund's grantmaking from May 1 2023 to March 31 2024 (11 months). It follows our previous April 2023 payout report.

  • Total funding recommended: $6,290,550
  • Total funding paid out: $5,363,105
  • Number of grants paid out: 141
  • Acceptance rate (excluding desk rejections): 159/672 = 23.7%
  • Acceptance rate (including desk rejections): 159/825 = 19.3%
  • Report authors: Linchuan Zhang (primary author), Caleb Parikh (fund chair), Oliver Habryka, Lawrence Chan, Clara Collier, Daniel Eth, Lauro Langosco, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland

25 of our grantees, who received a total of $790,251, requested that our public reports for their grants are anonymized (the table below includes those grants). 13 grantees, who received a total of $529, 819, requested that we not include public reports for their grants. You can read our policy on public reporting here.

We referred at least 2 grants to other funders for evaluation.

Highlighted Grants

(The [...]



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Outline:

(01:44) Highlighted Grants

(20:26) Other updates

(22:08) Other writings

(26:50) Appendix

(26:53) Other Grants We Made During This Time Period

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:

June 12th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PjDcGNXXhFpmFELnQ/long-term-future-fund-march-2024-payout-recommendations

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