The Future Fund’s Regranting Program

# The Future Fund’s Regranting Program
By leopold, Nick_Beckstead
Published: 2022-02-28
The FTX Foundation's [Future Fund](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/k8qkrjS8bxqxyLY9F/announcing-the-future-fund) is a philanthropic fund making grants and investments to ambitious projects in order to improve humanity's long-term prospects.

Our regranting program will offer discretionary budgets to independent part-time grantmakers, to be spent in the next ~6 months. Budgets will typically be in the $250k-few million range. We've already invited a first cohort of 21 regrantors to test the program.

Large funders aren’t always aware of the best opportunities. We want to try a decentralized approach. We hope to empower a range of interesting, ambitious, and altruistic people to drive funding decisions through a rewarding, low-friction process. 

We are just getting started and we'd like to fund a lot of great projects. So our [primary goal for 2022](https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-2022-plans/) is to perform bold tests of new approaches to scaling grantmaking. We very much consider this an experiment, and our goal is to decisively test whether this kind of program works. 

If successful, this program will help us identify great grants that we would have missed, help new people launch exciting projects, and find and empower people who could be strong grantmakers.

We're also aware that the program could cause various problems. We'll try to minimize these downsides by being thoughtful about who we select, providing relevant guidance, and carefully screening grant recommendations for downside risks and conflicts of interest.

We’re so excited to see what regrantors come up with!

Become a regrantor 
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We’re planning to invite additional regrantors to join the program in a month or so. Some of these will come from our existing networks, but we’re also opening up a public process to be considered as a regrantor. 

*   If you’d like to be considered as a regrantor, please
    *   1\. Recommend at least one grant via our [grant recommendation form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UCEPeUc9f-9e1ANspTBk_hVkGT64inm5i4yHcOBzLr4/edit?ts=620d2d2a).
    *   2\. Fill out this brief [regrantor expression of interest](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeyEog6H7knTSxjfZpDYneDlBj8GQkVAlzT0bOEpSMfgKa1SQ/viewform) form.
*   You can also recommend someone be considered as a regrantor [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1L7QsjPnVYhaG5c251BDzAw2z9tPJH8DibKslvtgHENM/edit).

If you’re interested, please fill these out as soon as possible; we’re reviewing materials on a rolling basis. 

### About the role

Regrantors will be assigned a discretionary budget, from which they can make grant recommendations. These will be screened primarily for downside risk, conflicts of interest, and consistency with our charitable mission and tax-exempt status. An exception is that we are less likely to approve funding for orgs that are already standard targets for EA f

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