person · Scandals & Dark Corners

Gary Wang

HQ / base
New York

FTX co-founder and CTO; owned ~10% of FTX to SBF's ~90%. Wrote (with Nishad Singh) the code that gave Alameda its secret, effectively unlimited line of credit against FTX customer deposits — the 'backdoor' at the center of the fraud. Pleaded guilty Dec 2022 to four counts, cooperated, and in Nov 2024 was sentenced to time served plus supervised release for his cooperation. Later banned by the SEC from serving as an officer/director.

Connections

  • FTX / Alameda Researchco-founder & CTO
  • Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)co-founder with; cooperated against

Sources

  • https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26450
  • https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/11/22/the-whos-who-of-the-ftx-inner-circle

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Grant Databases & Source Records

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Primary grants database

Coefficient Giving grants database ↗

The essential searchable archive for grants made by Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy. Use its filters to inspect grantees, focus areas, dates, and individual award pages.

Main site ↗Legacy Open Phil archive ↗
Coefficient Giving portfolios

Program-level grant trails ↗

Enter the major portfolios directly, then continue into their associated grants and strategy material.

Transformative AI ↗Farm animals ↗Biosecurity ↗Abundance & growth ↗
Global health grantmaking

GiveWell all grants ↗

Published grant pages and allocations across GiveWell’s global health and wellbeing portfolio, including top-charity and higher-uncertainty opportunities.

All Grants Fund ↗Top Charities Fund ↗
EA regranting

EA Funds grants ↗

A navigable public list of grants recommended through EA Funds, with fund, grantee, date, amount, and payout-status records.

Long-Term Future ↗Animal Welfare ↗Global Health ↗
Cross-funder index

EA Grants Database ↗

A consolidated research dataset spanning thousands of grants across major EA-aligned funders. Useful for comparing recipients and totals across separate grant programs.

Explore database ↗Method and release notes ↗
Major donor records

Good Ventures grants database ↗

The donor-side portfolio behind much of Coefficient Giving’s directed grantmaking, with searchable recipient and award records.

Portfolio overview ↗Nonprofit Explorer ↗
Independent regranting

Survival and Flourishing Fund ↗

Public recommendation rounds and award tables for SFF’s grantmaking across existential-risk, forecasting, policy, and rationalist-adjacent organizations.

Recommendation tables ↗About SFF ↗
Other large flows

FLI grant programs ↗

Grant programs and recipient announcements from the Future of Life Institute, complemented by public nonprofit and election-spending records.

FLI grants ↗FEC expenditures ↗OpenSecrets ↗

Selected Trails

click to open relevant public archive

Coefficient Giving

  • Good Ventures → Coefficient Giving$4B+
  • Navigating Transformative AI portfolio≈ $600–800M
  • CSET at Georgetown$140M+
  • FAR AI$28.7M
  • BlueDot Impact$25.6M
  • MATS$23.6M
  • GovAI≈ $20M
  • Redwood Research≈ $21M
  • Farm Animal Welfare portfolio≈ $400M+
  • Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness≈ $300M

Global health & movement

  • GiveWell-directed global health≈ $1.5B
  • Against Malaria Foundation, 2024$96.3M
  • Malaria Consortium, 2024≈ $87M
  • Helen Keller Intl, 2024$54M
  • New Incentives, 2024≈ $12M
  • SFF distributions, 2019–2025$141M
  • EA Funds public grant ledger1,600+ grants
  • Abundance and Growth Fund$120M
  • Lead Exposure Action Fund$50M
  • EA movement infrastructure≈ $100M

Independent & institutional

  • Vitalik Buterin → Future of Life Institute$665.8M SHIB
  • FLI → European affiliate$180.3M
  • FLI → Lightcone Foundation$50M
  • FLI → Future of Life Foundation$25M
  • Amazon → Anthropic$8B+
  • Google → Anthropic$3B+
  • Microsoft → OpenAI$13.75B era
  • FTX clawback from Effective Ventures$26.8M
  • Federal independent expenditureslive FEC data
  • PAC and outside-spending cross-checklive records

Note. Amounts record snapshots and retain approximation markers. Verify individual grant dates, amendments, recipient names, and current totals on the linked databases

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