Long Term Future Fund → Transformative AI Fund
Announced ~$0.9m seed allocation
2026-09-19
LTFF announces approximately one quarter of its remaining balance as a seed grant for the new fund.
Seed fund for new AI institutions
Transformative AI Fund
EA Funds programme for early-stage projects addressing advanced AI, led by Lowe Lundin.
Background
Typical grants are $10,000-$150,000 and rarely exceed $300,000. The scope includes technical research, policy analysis, advocacy, training and infrastructure, with some interest in digital sentience and flourishing futures. Its launch argues that the field needs more organizations capable of employing trained people and using future philanthropic capital.
Role in this network
Typical grants are $10,000-$150,000 and rarely exceed $300,000. The scope includes technical research, policy analysis, advocacy, training and infrastructure, with some interest in digital sentience and flourishing futures. Its launch argues that the field needs more organizations capable of employing trained people and using future philanthropic capital.
Conflict controls
The currently linked EA Funds policy, dated March 2023, grades recusals by severity. It permits reasoned chair/director exceptions when alternatives are inadequate and does not require public disclosure of every recusal. A particular grant needs its own decision record.
What the records show
Centre for Effective Altruism → Transformative AI Fund
Institutional home
2026-09-19
The outgoing LTFF manager identifies the new programme as CEA-housed.
EA Funds → Transformative AI Fund
Launches new AI fund
2026-09-19
EA Funds announces a new AI seed fund with a new full-time team.
Caleb Parikh → Transformative AI Fund
Fund adviser
2026-09-19
The fund page lists Parikh as an adviser.
Lowe Lundin → Transformative AI Fund
Head of fund
2026-09-19
The fund page names Lundin as head.
From the investigation
The fund split: CEA, LTFF and Lightcone Commons
Their proposed spend-down divides roughly $2.8 million for existing applicants and longtermist projects, primarily through Commons, from roughly $0.9 million to seed a new CEA-housed Transformative AI Fund. The outgoing managers retain final decisions over their allocation. Commons waives its normal platform and evaluator fees for the LTFF contribution.
Read the research & sources ↗An ecosystem preparing for more wealth
The new Transformative AI Fund supplies a smaller-scale entry point. Its typical $10,000-$150,000 grants can pay for a pilot, a first hire or a new organization. Its launch rationale anticipates more philanthropic wealth and argues that suitable organizations need to be created before that money arrives.
Read the research & sources ↗Further reading
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See the connections
Open this part of the network ↗What the connections say
5 relationshipsLong Term Future Fund → Announced ~$0.9m seed allocation → Transformative AI Fund
2026-09-19
LTFF announces approximately one quarter of its remaining balance as a seed grant for the new fund.
Read the original source 1
EA Funds → Launches new AI fund → Transformative AI Fund
2026-09-19
EA Funds announces a new AI seed fund with a new full-time team.
Read the original sources 2
Centre for Effective Altruism → Institutional home → Transformative AI Fund
2026-09-19
The outgoing LTFF manager identifies the new programme as CEA-housed.
Read the original source 1
Lowe Lundin → Head of fund → Transformative AI Fund
2026-09-19
The fund page names Lundin as head.
Read the original source 1
Caleb Parikh → Fund adviser → Transformative AI Fund
2026-09-19
The fund page lists Parikh as an adviser.