Meta Charity Funders: Launching the 3rd round

By Joey 🔸, Meta Charity Funders @ 2024-08-30T11:33 (+44)

Meta Charity Funders is a funding circle consisting of ~10 funders, that funds meta initiatives and serves as an alternative to Open Philanthropy and EA funds.

We’re launching the third round of Meta Charity Funders. Apply for funding by September 30th or join the circle as a donor.

We expect all applicants to have read this post’s twin post, “Meta Charity Funders: What you need to know when applying” to understand how to write your application.

Focus of this round

• We expect to fund many initiatives not on this list, but some projects that members of our circle have expressed extra interest in funding this round are:
  • Ultra-high-net-worth-individual advising. However, we want to stress that we believe the skillset to do this well is rare, and these types of applications will be extra scrutinized.
  • Effective Giving/Giving multiplier-organizations. For example, the ones incubated by CE’s Effective Giving Incubation program.
  • Career development programs that increase the number of individuals working in high-impact areas- including GCR reduction, animal welfare and Global Health. Especially in regions where there are currently fewer opportunities to engage in such programs.

Information for this round

Process

The expected process is as follows:

• Applications open: August 30th
  • 100 words in the summary; this should give us a quick overview of the project.
  • In the full project description, please include a main summarizing document no longer than 2 pages. This is all we can commit to reading in the first stage. Any extra material will only be read if we choose to proceed with your application.
  • When choosing the “Meta” category, please be as truthful as possible. It’s obvious (and reflects negatively on the application) when a project has deliberately been placed in a category in which it does not belong.
• Applications close: September 29th
• Initial application review finishes: October 6th
  • If your project has been filtered out during the initial application review (which we expect 60-80% of applications will), we will let you know around the end of October.
• Interviews, due diligence, deliberations: October 7th - November 24th
  • If your application has passed the initial application review, we will discuss it during our gatherings, and we might reach out to you to gather more information, for example, by conducting an interview. N.B. This is not a commitment to fund you.
• Decisions made: November 25th
  • We expect to pay out the grants in the weeks following November 25th.

Historical support:

• You can get a sense of what we have supported in historical rounds by reading our posts on our first and secound rounds.