“Update: EAIF is now more funding constrained” by Jamie_Harris, hbesceli

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

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/vdLWt6A7DZuZqCLFA/update-eaif-is-now-more-funding-constrained

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