EA Forum Podcast (All audio) “Update: EAIF is now more funding constrained” by Jamie_Harris, hbesceli
May 4, 2025
06:37
Tl;dr: Over the past few months, the EA Infrastructure Fund's (EAIF) grantmaking has increased significantly, and funding has become more of a constraint. Your donations would help us continue supporting impactful projects.
The situation
- EA Infrastructure Fund aims to increase the impact of projects that use the principles of effective altruism, by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge.
- In November 2024, we posted saying that EAIF wasn’t funding constrained at the time.
- We’ve recently increased our grantmaking. In 2024 we made $1.9M in grants. So far in 2025 we have made $0.9M in grants and are only a third of the way through the year.
- Our total available fund balance is currently $2.6M, down from $3.3M in November 2024 when we last posted.
- We project that at our 2024 funding bar (i.e. our sense of how promising an application needs to be for us to fund it), we [...]
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Outline:
(00:28) The situation
(01:54) Why has this happened?
(01:57) 1. Growth in demand from established organisations
(02:38) 2. Our active grantmaking has worked
(03:33) 3. We continue to fill an important role in the EA funding ecosystem
(04:25) Room for additional funding
The original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
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First published:
May 3rd, 2025
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.