This style of grant giving has caught on in the last few years (three other examples I can think of off the top of my head are Tyler Cowen's Fast Grants [0] and

This style of grant giving has caught on in the last few years (three other examples I can think of off the top of my head are Tyler Cowen's Fast Grants [0] and Emergent Ventures [1] and Scott Alexander's ACX Grants [2], inspired by the former). Despite the fact that SBF's foundations used the same style and collapsed, I don't think the style will go away. It's just so much more efficient than the normal grant application process, for small-scale interventions. [0] https://fastgrants.org/ https://fastgrants.org/ [1] https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures [2] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/acx-grants-results https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/acx-grants-results