Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity
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For the price of a cup of coffee a day you can join the Lifeboat 500!

No amount is too small! The number of individual donors is just as important as the size of the donation, in terms of showing public support for this effort. You can also make an anonymous donation by simply shopping at Amazon.

Total Donors: 6,147

Lifeboat Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, federal EIN #80-0034805.
All membership fees and other gifts are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

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Patrons
  • Jeff Bone/Topsight Fund
    $28,945.59 (Active Patron membership) + $48.20 to Bitcoin Endowment Fund + $100 to X-Risks Network Fund for $28,843.79 total joined 07/02/10.
  • Dave Davies
    $15,460 (Active Patron membership) joined 01/26/18.
Lifeboat 500 and A-500 Members
  • Donald Maclean
    $45,455 ($10,745 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) + $3,000 ($22,000 pledged – Active A-500 membership) + $2,000 to AIShield Fund + $1,500 to NanoShield Fund + $500 for $50,955 total joined 04/16/08.

    “What do I want passionately from the bottom of my heart? Is my personal vision clear? How do I go about fulfilling my vision? In this rapidly unfolding life drama I value clarity. This century offers us opportunities for profound insights into life, for transcending maladaptive ways and for adopting mature ways, but there are also dangers and we confront major dilemmas. I am aware of my own customary way of identifying and confronting dilemmas in life.

    I support the Lifeboat Foundation because I love the vision and I want to help bring about a secure future in which people from all walks of life around the world have opportunities for fulfilling productive lives.”

  • Sergio M.L. Tarrero
    $13,255 + $3,400 to A-PRIZE + $2,000 to NanoShield Fund for $18,655 total ($17,730 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 10/10/06.

    “I am proud to support the Lifeboat Foundation in its efforts to help avoid or mitigate the most serious global dangers which are inherent to our era, still a rather primitive and uncertain period characterized by much human suffering, geopolitical struggles, medievally clueless societies and governments, rogue WMDs, and a state of "general lawlessness" — without proper if any surveillance of very bad apples, weak or no police force, or other forms of "adult supervision", in most quarters — coupled with the potentially highly destructive outcomes (via direct confrontation or escalation) of our typically reckless and shortsighted war games using advanced technologies. Certain uses of our advanced techs as weapons are premature and suicidal, and however we must learn to defend ourselves against both attacks and accidents surrounding ultrapowerful new technologies. For this reason, it pays to be first in getting the necessary knowhow and prepping our safeguards before we "hurt ourselves".

    Despite our limitations and the worst aspects of our human nature, I am proud of all the good things that we have achieved as a species and, desperately wanting to see positive outcomes to our struggles, I think it is crucially important for as many of us as possible to focus on strategies and programs that aim to promote global balance and well-being for all sentient life, as well as programs which help us design safeguards in order to avoid the potentially globally-catastrophic scenarios that we are undoubtedly facing as our technological might skyrockets.

    Only a handful of organizations are working on these types of major problems (please visit www.intelligence.org, www.foresight.org, and www.crnano.org as well), and Lifeboat Foundation is the most comprehensive effort that I know of. Please consider joining our cause.”

  • Michael Dickey
    $14,965 ($10,035 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 06/03/06.

    “I am an adamant supporter of the Lifeboat Foundations goals for three major reasons, The Drake Equation, the Fermi Paradox, and The Law of Accelerating Returns. The combination of these three principles illustrates something terribly jarring; that life throughout the universe almost always destroys itself through technology.”

  • Chris K. Haley
    $10,055 + $250 to A-PRIZE + $1,000 to AIShield Fund + $1,075.44 (composed of 85 bitcoins, 1.144172 CryptoGenicBullion, and 3.14159265 litecoins) for $12,380.44 total ($20,945 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 01/05/08.

    “I’m proud to support the Lifeboat Foundation as a Lifeboat 500 member. The work that is being done by this organization is extremely important, and only by taking an active part in it will we be able to manage the journey successfully.”

  • Philippe Van Nedervelde
    $6,630 ($18,285 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 06/19/06.

    “Building arks costs money. 500 people pitching in is a great, exemplary start, and I look forward to numerous LF evangelizing opportunities to swiftly inflate the ranks of, first, the 500 and soon thereafter, the 5000, the 50.000, the 500.000 and the 5 million. The more arks the better!”

  • Mike Ritter
    $3,995 ($21,005 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 02/12/21.

    “Lifeboat is a species changing organization I am proud to be a member of.”

  • Eric Bauswell
    $2,845 ($22,155 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 10/18/07.
  • Michael Haislip
    $680 ($24,320 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 06/16/08.
  • Steve Coy
    $170 ($24,830 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 11/11/24.
  • Leslie A. Yakubowski
    $85 ($24,915 pledged – Active Lifeboat 500 membership) joined 01/10/10.
First Class
  • Brandon E. Larson
    $650 (Active First Class membership) joined 09/04/11.

    “I am concerned about not only the survival of the human race but also preventing its descent back to savagery. Our primary goal must be to make humanity a multi-planet species.”

Executive Class
  • Matthew L. McGuirl
    $4,125 + 0.3 bitcoins worth $41.94 + $50 to NanoShield Fund for $5,066.94 total (Active Executive membership) joined 08/21/07.
  • Alan R. Light
    $1,750 (Active Executive membership) + $250 for $2,050 total joined 12/26/08.

    “We will want to go beyond the bounds of earth anyway, we might as well start getting ready now. The preparations may prove useful in themselves long before we get off the ground.”

  • Rick Hubbard
    $1,750 (Active Executive membership) joined 06/26/07.

    “To survive, we understand the opposing forces that vie at the intersection of means and will. To advance, we pursue quests for truth. To progress, we choose in the equilibrium of this difficult and delicate calculus. Future reality can be shaped both by pursuit and prudence.”

  • Alexia Idoura
    $1,450 (Active Executive membership) joined 10/13/18.
  • Venita Davis
    $1,325 (Active Executive membership) joined 11/09/15.

    “Excited about contributing to something bigger than myself, so that the future of humanity can continue to evolve into something great.”

  • Richard Hendrick
    $945 (Active Executive membership) joined 05/19/06.

    “So much agreement about the risks. For so many years. So little action (your considerable accomplishments excluded). Please continue promoting awareness.”

  • Amy L. Fletcher
    $735 (Active Executive membership) joined 11/20/20.
  • Bill Barbour
    $725 (Active Executive membership) joined 12/06/19.
  • Petr Šrámek
    $600 (Active Executive membership) joined 02/19/17.

    “I am a lifelong entrepreneur with the belief that science and technology can bring humanity to a new better level.”

  • Robert Pisani
    $600 (Active Executive membership) joined 05/19/17.
  • Mark A. Walker
    $375 (Active Executive membership) joined 07/12/07.
  • Nicholas MacDonald
    $375 (Active Executive membership) joined 01/04/16.

    “The greatest threat to humanity today is a pre-occupation with short-term thinking; this is the root of all of our major problems. The Lifeboat Foundation is striking at that root, and, as a wealth manager focused on helping my private and institutional clients manage assets for the ultra-long-term, want to support that mission in any way that I can.”

  • Brent L. Reitze
    $325 (Active Executive membership) joined 06/05/15.

    “Inspired by the novel The Transhumanist Wager. A good sci-fi novel, but with a greater lesson. We must put our collective efforts towards human longevity.”

  • Michael Breazeale
    $300 (Active Executive membership) joined 01/23/11.
  • Jolie McMillian
    $25 (Active Executive membership) joined 08/22/17.
Economy Class
  • Anonymous Donors
    $12,966.87 + $1,217.55 [Bitcoin CryptogenicBullion, Etherium, Litecoin, Monero, Nobelcoin, Peercoin, and Solarcoin) to Bitcoin Endowment Fund for $14,247.77 total (Includes one Active Economy membership).
  • Brenda Cooper
    $2,235 (Active Economy membership) joined 02/12/07.

    “I am very interested in the kind of conversations — conversations about our future — that happen in this forum.”

  • Rebecca R. Cooper
    $1,760 (Active Economy membership) joined 05/12/10.
  • Aaron Mayzes
    $1,720 (Active Economy membership) joined 09/24/09.
  • Roland Schiefer
    $1,540 (Active Economy membership) joined 03/08/12.
  • Alexander Macrae
    $1,370 (Active Economy membership) joined 01/20/11.
  • Patrik Sandin
    $970 (Active Economy membership) joined 12/06/16.
  • Loïc-Yann Bardon
    $840 (Active Economy membership) joined 05/21/18.
  • John Grencer
    $720 (Active Economy membership) joined 12/14/10.
  • Paula J. Wilson
    $660 (Active Economy membership) joined 05/18/08.
  • David Shumaker
    $640 (Active Economy membership) joined 09/27/19.
  • Susan Cutforth
    $630 (Active Economy membership) joined 09/24/19.
  • Maciamo Hay
    $600 (Active Economy membership) joined 04/12/14.
  • Bob Joy
    $250 + $300 to NanoShield Fund for $550 total (Active Economy membership) joined 03/14/15.

    “Things are accelerating, time to pitch in.”

  • Glenn A. Miller
    $425 (Active Economy membership) joined 04/29/07.

    “The future is so damned interesting. Pity I’ll miss the majority of it.”

  • Joel D. Ticknor
    $375 (Active Economy membership) joined 03/22/15.
  • Stormy L. Brinson
    $360 (Active Economy membership) joined 12/27/15.

    “Lot’s of great things happening. Keep up the good work!”

  • Tommy Ledbetter
    $340 (Active Economy membership) joined 08/26/20.
  • Peter W. Smafield
    $320 (Active Economy membership) joined 04/12/15.

    “I believe we will all need a personal AI who has access to the whole world’s information. It is my supposition that without that information most people will live in poverty.”

  • Benjamin T. Solomon
    $280 (Active Economy membership) joined 09/24/11.

    “Author of the 12-year study titled ‘An Introduction to Gravity Modification’, and am reaching out to both the physics and the aerospace engineering communities to ensure that gravity modification will be a commercial technology in our lifetimes.”

  • Taurus Londoño
    $140 (Active Economy membership) joined 02/20/16.
  • Mark P. Fusco
    $120 (Active Economy membership) joined 01/12/12.
  • Andrew K. Fader
    $120 (Active Economy membership) joined 01/30/21.
  • Hubert C. Braendle
    $120 (Active Economy membership) joined 12/21/16.
  • Justina Cruickshank
    $90 (Active Economy membership) joined 01/20/18.
  • Kelley White-Ricks
    $60 (Active Economy membership) joined 01/11/15.

    “Today’s investment in tomorrow’s future.”

  • Darnell Kenneth Smith
    $10 (Active Economy membership) joined 12/31/24.
  • Kevin Purfield
    $10 (Active Economy membership) joined 06/16/25.
  • David Noel
    $10 (Active Economy membership) joined 10/08/16.
  • Adam Glickman
    $10 (Active Economy membership) joined 06/04/17.

    “I am happy to be of service to Lifeboat.”

  • Anthony D Corona
    $10 (Active Economy membership) joined 01/19/25.
Regular Donors