The FTX Foundation\u2019s Future Fund publicly launched<\/a> in late February. We’re a philanthropic fund that makes grants and investments to improve humanity’s long-term prospects. For information about some of the areas we’ve been funding, see our Areas of Interest page<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is our first public update on the Future Fund\u2019s grantmaking. The purpose of this post is to give an update on what we\u2019ve done and what we’re learning about the funding models we’re testing. (It does not cover a range of other FTX Foundation activities.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ve also published a new grants page<\/a> and regrants page<\/a> with our public grants so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are trying to learn as much as we can about how to deploy funding at scale to improve humanity\u2019s long-term prospects. Our primary objective for 2022<\/a> is to perform bold and decisive tests of new funding models. The main funding models we have tested so far are our regranting program<\/a> and our open call<\/a> for applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In brief, these models worked as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n So far we have made 262 grants and investments, totaling ~$132M. These break down as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are also ~$25M of grants we are likely to make soon, but have some relevant aspects TBD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below are some grants and investments that we find interesting and\/or representative of what we are trying to fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See this grants page<\/a> and this regrants page<\/a> for all of our public grants and investments so far, and further example grants in later sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These numbers are for our grantmaking overall. (The sections below with more detail on regranting \/ open call \/ staff-led grants give the corresponding stats for each funding stream.)<\/p>\n\n\n\nOur focus on testing funding models<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Grantmaking by funding model<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Some example grants and investments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Regranting<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Open call<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Staff-led<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Key stats<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Areas of interest<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n