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Survival and Flourishing Fund
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Summary
SFF is a virtual fund that organizes grant recommendations and philanthropic giving, primarily supporting organizations working on existential risk and AI safety. They use a unique S-Process and have distributed over $152 million in grants since 2019.
Key Points
- •Innovative grant-making process with multiple funding mechanisms
- •Strong focus on AI safety, existential risk, and long-term human flourishing
- •Rapid scaling of philanthropic investments from $2M to $41M annually
Review
The Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) represents an innovative approach to strategic philanthropy in the existential risk and AI safety domain. Founded by Jaan Tallinn and advised by experts like Andrew Critch, SFF has developed a sophisticated grant-making process called the S-Process, which allows for flexible and responsive funding of critical research and initiatives.
The fund's methodology involves periodic evaluation rounds, independent assessors, and multiple grant mechanisms like the S-Process, Speculation Grants, and an Initiative Committee. This approach enables rapid, targeted funding of emerging AI safety projects while maintaining rigorous evaluation standards. Since 2019, SFF has grown from $2 million in initial grants to distributing over $41 million in 2024, demonstrating increasing momentum and commitment to addressing potentially transformative technological risks.
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## SFF has organized ~$152MM in philanthropic gifts and grants.
2019
$2MM
2020
$5MM
2021
$20MM
2022
$16MM
2023
$33MM
2024
$41MM
2025
$35MM
### SFF Programs
[**The S-Process** \\
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The S-Process is the algorithm and recurring meeting procedure we follow once or twice per year to produce grant recommendations to our participating Funders.](https://survivalandflourishing.fund/s-process) [**Speculation Grants** \\
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Speculation Grants are an additional type of grant we make, using an experimental procedure for making decisions more quickly than the S-Process, that is retroactively funded by recommendations from the S-Process.](https://survivalandflourishing.fund/speculation-grants) [**Matching Pledges** \\
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Matching Pledges are commitments made by Funders as part of an S-Process round to match outside donations to a recipient at some rate (e.g. 2-to-1), up to the pledged amount.](https://survivalandflourishing.fund/matching-pledges) [**Initiative Committee** \\
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The Initiative Committee is a small group, made up of Jaan Tallinn, SFF Advisors, and 2-5 anonymous voters, that makes grants on its own initiative, without receiving or requiring proposals or applications.](https://survivalandflourishing.fund/initiative-committee) [**Frequently Asked Questions** \\
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Got a question? We’re here to answer it!](https://survivalandflourishing.fund/faq)
SFF grant recommendations are made by a group of independent assessors whose membership changes regularly. The philanthropic priorities of SFF’s Funders play a guiding role (e.g. see [Jaan Tallinn’s philanthropic priorities](https://jaan.info/philanthropy/)) but assessors are free to choose to support applications outside of these priority areas and will sometimes do so.
### Recent Announcements
### SFF-2025 further funding opportunities
SFF is announcing recommendations for further funding opportunities based on the SFF-2025 S-Process round:
[SFF-2025 Recommendations for Further Funding Opportunities](https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2025/further-opportunities)
### [SFC is hiring!](https://survivalandflourishing.com/careers)
[Survival and Flourishing Corp](https://survivalandflourishing.com/) is growing their team to support the continued development and scaling of the grant evaluation software and processes used by SFF. Open positions include:
- **[Full-Stack Software Engineer](https://survivalandflourishing.com/careers/full-stack-engineer)** \- $250,000 - $350,000
- **[Technical Operations Specialist](https://survivalandflourishing.com/careers/technical-operations-specialist)** \- $100,000 - $140,000
All positions are fully remote with competitive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, and 9 weeks of PTO per year. [Visit the SFC careers page](https://survivalandflourishing.com/careers) to learn more about these opportunities and apply.
### SFF-2025 recommendations
SFF has finalized its grant recommendations for 2025:
[SFF-2025 Recommendations Announcement](
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