EA Funds

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EA Funds is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between November 12, 2021 and May 30, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “EA Funds’ grant rounds”; “I’m one of the guest fund managers on one of the EA Funds (the EA Infrastructure Fund, specifically)”; “I can confirm that EA Funds are real people and that they’re great (and have lots of money)“. It most often appears alongside effective altruism, ACX Grants, Alcoholics Anonymous.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: November 12, 2021
  • Last seen: May 30, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

November 12, 2021 · Original source
How is this different from Marginal Revolution's Fast Grants, Nadia Eghbal's Helium Grants, or EA Funds' grant rounds?
January 03, 2022 · Original source
Thanks for doing this and for this post! I'm one of the guest fund managers on one of the EA Funds (the EA Infrastructure Fund, specifically), and I would really like many of these people to apply to EA Funds for a top up or a substantially larger grant right now (if they haven't already), and for many others to apply later on for "next phases" of these projects or for new projects. https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/apply-for-funding
4. EA Funds's impact is probably most bottlenecked by number of good applications received (more so than by fund manager time or money available) (I'm most confident of this for the Long-Term Future Fund and the Infrastructure Fund)
Things I often tell people about applying to EA Funds: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4tsWDEXkhincu7HLb/things-i-often-tell-people-about-applying-to-ea-funds
November 30, 2023 · Original source
Cause evaluation works the same way. Every year, I feel bad free-riding off GiveWell. I tell myself I’m going to really look into charities, find the niche underexplored ones that are neglected even by other EAs. Every year (except when I announce ACX Grants and can’t get out of it), I remember on December 27th that I haven’t done any of that yet, grumble, and give to whoever GiveWell puts first (or sometimes EA Funds).
May 30, 2024 · Original source
Cause evaluation works the same way. Every year, I feel bad free-riding off GiveWell. I tell myself I’m going to really look into charities, find the niche underexplored ones that are neglected even by other EAs. Every year (except when I announce ACX Grants and can’t get out of it), I remember on December 27th that I haven’t done any of that yet, grumble, and give to whoever GiveWell puts first (or sometimes EA Funds).