person · Funders & Capital

Jaan Tallinn

HQ / base: Tallinn

Estonian Skype/Kazaa founding engineer (~$900M fortune); the network's most systematic non-US funder. Co-founded CSER (2012) and FLI (2014); funds SFF, Lightspeed Grants, Anthropic (early investor), Conjecture, Control AI. Politically active in UK/EU AI-safety advocacy. Board seats and investments intertwine his philanthropic and commercial exposure to AI.

Connections

Anthropicearly investor (Series A lead)
Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF)primary funder ($141M+ distributed)
Survival and Flourishing Corpinvestment arm
CSER & Leverhulme CFI (Cambridge)co-founded (2012)
Future of Life Institute (FLI)co-founded (2014)
Conjecture / Control AIinvestor; funds Control AI
LawZeroSkype-lineage launch funding (reported)
CSER & Leverhulme CFI (Cambridge)co-founded by
Metaplanet Holdingsinvestment vehicle

Sources

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Geography

Grant Databases & Source Records

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

Coefficient Giving

Global health & movement

Independent & institutional

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