(By James)

A site where any individual can receive donations and send grants like Scott’s ACX Grants.

During the Manifund Q&A at Manifest, Austin mentioned a possible future for Manifund where they could help Eliezer Yudkowsky run his own grant round and anyone else who wants to.

I think this is a really good idea:

• Demand already demonstrated from Scott, Dwarkesh
• Solves lots of pain: The software product would dramatically decrease the effort required to receive donations, accept proposals, send grants, and track ongoing projects
• Great match for the skills Manifund has, since they’ve already built software to run rounds, and are well-connected to people who want to use it
• Solves the fundraising problem by delegating it to the regrantor
  • Takes advantage of strong personal brands and expertise, giving people confidence to donate
  • Could be implemented as an annual subscription(!)
• Can be run as a scaleable for-profit by charging 5% on all donations

This is a super EA project! Could plausibly:

• Increase total philanthropy
• Drastically increase the number of ambitious, creative, and risky projects
• Serve as a new funding model for science
• Bring greater transparency to philanthropy, since all grants would be public

You could aim to have the next ACX Grants contest be run on this software!

Market opportunity