This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2025. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Facebook page | AnimalCharityEvaluators |
| Website | http://www.animalcharityevaluators.org/ |
| Donors list page | https://animalcharityevaluators.org/about/top-donors/ |
| Transparency and financials page | https://animalcharityevaluators.org/about/transparency/ |
| Twitter username | AnimalCharityEv |
| Wikipedia page | https://github.com/vipulnaik/working-drafts/blob/master/wikipedia/ace.mediawiki |
| Timelines wiki page | https://timelines.issarice.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Animal_Charity_Evaluators |
| Org Watch page | https://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Animal+Charity+Evaluators |
| Key people | Jon Bockman |
| Launch date | 2012-08 |
| Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile | 20th percentile | 30th percentile | 40th percentile | 50th percentile | 60th percentile | 70th percentile | 80th percentile | 90th percentile | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 47 | 1,000 | 37,053 | 2 | 24 | 50 | 147 | 558 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,833 | 3,986 | 10,000 | 650,000 |
| Animal welfare | 45 | 1,000 | 38,697 | 2 | 24 | 50 | 250 | 660 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 3,986 | 10,000 | 650,000 |
| FIXME | 2 | 30 | 65 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Donor | Total | 2020 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2013 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) | 1,150,000.00 | 650,000.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund (filter this donee) | 510,000.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Patrick Brinich-Langlois (filter this donee) | 30,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Brian Tomasik (filter this donee) | 12,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Josh Jacobson (filter this donee) | 8,200.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7,200.00 | 1,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Harry Greenwell (filter this donee) | 6,377.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2,391.39 | 3,985.65 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Joshua Kissel (filter this donee) | 5,800.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3,800.00 | 2,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pablo Stafforini (filter this donee) | 3,069.35 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 69.35 | 3,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Michael Dickens (filter this donee) | 3,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Peter Hurford (filter this donee) | 2,705.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,009.00 | 1,036.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 660.00 |
| David Barry (filter this donee) | 2,391.39 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,833.40 | 557.99 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kieran Greig (filter this donee) | 2,386.26 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,590.84 | 795.42 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Denis Drescher (filter this donee) | 1,972.64 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,186.80 | 785.84 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Saulius Šimčikas (filter this donee) | 1,079.27 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,079.27 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Nicholas Link (filter this donee) | 1,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Michael Sesser (filter this donee) | 550.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 300.00 | 250.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| James Harris (filter this donee) | 319.44 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 319.44 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Vidur Kapur (filter this donee) | 209.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 122.26 | 86.76 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Arvind Raghavan (filter this donee) | 147.46 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 147.46 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Michael Dello-Iacovo (filter this donee) | 130.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 30.00 | 100.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Max Broad (filter this donee) | 50.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Katerina Manoli (filter this donee) | 26.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 26.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Marius Hobbhahn (filter this donee) | 23.74 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 23.74 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Cornelis Haupt (filter this donee) | 23.86 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 23.86 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Grace King (filter this donee) | 13.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kyle Bogosian (filter this donee) | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 1,741,475.91 | 650,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 511,039.00 | 22,245.90 | 32,531.01 | 25,000.00 | 660.00 |
| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
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| Where ACE Staff Are Giving In 2019 and Why | 2019-12-26 | Erika Alonso | Animal Charity Evaluators | Heather Herrell Erika Alonso Gina Stuessy Jamie Spurgeon Melissa Guzikowski Cash Callaghan Marianne van der Werf | Animal Charity Evaluators Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund Effective Animal Advocacy Fund Farm Sanctuary StrongMinds The Good Food Institute Rethink Priorities The Humane League Wild Animal Initiative Fish Welfare Initiative Aquatic Life Institute Faunalytics Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations Essere Animali Christopher Sebastian McJetters | Periodic donation list documentation | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) staff describe where they donated or plan to donate in 2019. The list differs from the previous year: almost all the donations are in the animal welfare space (with none in the domains of AI safety, other global catastrophic risks, or GiveWell-style global health and development). Donation amounts are not disclosed, likely by policy | |
| How frequently do ACE and Open Phil agree about animal charities? (GW, IR) | 2019-12-17 | Ben West | Effective Altruism Forum | Open Philanthropy Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund | Animal Charity Evaluators Compassion in World Farming International Animal Ethics Faunalytics Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira | Miscellaneous commentary | Animal welfare | Ben West compares the grantees of the Open Philanthropy Project (Open Phil) in its focus area of farm animal welfare against the charities recommended by Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). He finds a substantial overlap: Open Phil has made grants to all charities that ACE has ever given top charity status, about half of the charities ACE has ever given standout charity status, and only one charity that ACE reviewed but did not recommend. Also, "5% of the charities ACE did an "exploratory" review of received a grant, as did 3% of the ones they "considered" but did not review." A spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NRSVnSgg33vtOByfYwCFhB6VrytZGYeJ/edit with the data is linked. The post also notes: "Three charities which were named “Standout Charities” by ACE but did not receive Open Phil grants did receive grants from the Centre for Effective Altruism’s Animal Welfare Fund (Animal Ethics, Faunalytics, and Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira)." | |
| The Process Leading to Our 2019 Recommendations | 2019-12-03 | Maria Salazar | Animal Charity Evaluators | Evaluator quantification approach | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators describes the process it used to arrive at its 2019 top charity recommendations, along with information on the number of charities at each stage of the process, provided in a flowchart in the post. It also describes some of the important considerations that went into the recommendations. It links to https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-reviews/evaluating-charities/process-archive/december-2019/ for a more detailed description of the evaluation process. The structure of the post is almost identical to the structure of a similar post https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/the-process-leading-to-our-2018-recommendations/ for 2018 | |||
| Announcing our 2019 Charity Recommendations | 2019-12-02 | Toni Adleberg | Animal Charity Evaluators | Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries Anima International The Good Food Institute The Humane League Compassion in World Farming USA Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations Faunalytics Animals Now Compassion in World Farming International Mercy For Animals The Nonhuman Rights Project | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Animal welfare | In this blog post, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) announces its 2019 end-of-year recommendations. Top charities are Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries, Anima International (a newly formed charity from a merger of two charities including Otwartke Klatki (Open Cages)), The Good Food Institute, and The Humane League. Standout charities include two of general interest: Compassion in World Farming USA and Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations, and one of special interest: Faunalytics. ACE also lists other charities it reviewed in 2019, linking to its comprehensive review for each: Animals Now, Compassion in World Farming International, and The Nonhuman Rights Project. It also suggests to donors to donate to its Recommended Charity Fund, from which it disburses money to its recommended charities every January and July. There is a companion blog post https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/comparison-chart-of-our-2019-recommended-charities/ that includes a comparison chart and more details on how to use it to compare charities. Also, the accompanying blog post https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/the-process-leading-to-our-2019-recommendations/ goes into more detail on the process leadinig up to the recommendations | ||
| Some updates to our charity evaluation process: 2019 | 2019-10-30 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Evaluator quantification approach | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators lists a number of changes it is making to its process for selecting top charities and communicating these findings. Changes include: (1) publishing overall ratings of each charity on each criterion, (2) increasing the number of visual aids (e.g., charts, tables, and images) in each review, (3) making changes to cost-effectiveness models, (4) making ACE's cultural survey mandatory for charities receiving a recommendation, and (5) hiring a fact-checker. | ||||
| EA Giving Tuesday Donation Matching Initiative 2018 Retrospective (GW, IR) | 2019-01-06 | Avi Norowitz | Effective Altruism Forum | Avi Norowitz William Kiely | Against Malaria Foundation Malaria Consortium GiveWell Effective Altruism Funds Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters Effective Animal Advocacy Fund The Humane League The Good Food Institute Animal Charity Evaluators Machine Intelligence Research Institute Faunalytics Wild-Aniaml Suffering Research GiveDirectly Center for Applied Rationality Effective Altruism Foundation Cool Earth Schistosomiasis Control Initiative New Harvest Evidence Action Centre for Effective Altruism Animal Equality Compassion in World Farming USA Innovations for Poverty Action Global Catastrophic Risk Institute Future of Life Institute Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund Sightsavers The Life You Can Save One Step for Animals Helen Keller International 80,000 Hours Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative Vegan Outreach Encompass Iodine Global Network Otwarte Klatki Charity Science Mercy For Animals Coalition for Rainforest Nations Fistula Foundation Sentience Institute Better Eating International Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research Raising for Effective Giving Clean Air Task Force The END Fund | Miscellaneous commentary | The blog post describes an effort by a number of donors coordinated at https://2018.eagivingtuesday.org/donations to donate through Facebook right after the start of donation matching on Giving Tuesday. Based on timestamps of donations and matches, donations were matched till 14 seconds after the start of matching. Despite the very short time window of matching, the post estimates that $469,000 (65%) of the donations made were matched | ||
| Where ACE Staff Are Giving In 2018 and Why | 2018-12-21 | Erika Alonso | Animal Charity Evaluators | Sofia Davis-Fogel Toni Adleberg Erika Alonso Gina Stuessy Kathryn Asher Jamie Spurgeon Trent Grassian Melissa Guzikowski | Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries Otwarte Klatki Animal Equality Encompass Sinergia Animal Mercy For Animals Compassion in World Farming USA The Humane League L214 International Rescue Committee New York Public Library Give Power Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund The Good Food Institute Effective Animal Advocacy Fund StrongMinds Global Catastrophic Risk Institute New Harvest We Animals Against Malaria Foundation GiveWell top charities Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Beckley Foundation Christopher Sebastian Animal Aid GiveDirectly | Periodic donation list documentation | Animal welfare|Global catastrophic risks|Global health and development | Continuing an annual tradition started in 2016, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) staff describe where they donated or plan to donate in 2018. Unlike 2017, there is no mention of the Effective Altruism Funds, with most funds-style donations going to the ACE-run Recommended Charity Fund and Effective Animal Advocacy Fund. Donation amounts are not disclosed, likely by policy | |
| The Process Leading to Our 2018 Recommendations | 2018-11-26 | Aaron Call | Animal Charity Evaluators | Evaluator quantification approach | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators describes the process it used to arrive at its 2018 top charity recommendations, along with information on the number of charities at each stage of the process, provided in a flowchart in the post. It also describes some of the important considerations that went into the recommendations. It links to https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-reviews/evaluating-charities/process-archive/december-2018/ for a more detailed description of the 2018 evaluation process | |||
| Announcing Our 2018 Charity Recommendations | 2018-11-26 | Toni Adleberg | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Equality The Good Food Institute The Humane League Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries ProVeg Sinergia Animal Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira Otwarte Klatki Compassion in World Farming The Nonhuman Rights Project L214 Faunalytics Cellular Agriculture Society The Humane Society of the United States The Save Movement Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Animal welfare | The blog post, published a day before Giving Tuesday, lists the top and standout charities, as well as lists updated reviews of other charities that did not make it to the top or standout charity list. It ends by plugging the ACE Recommended Charity Fund, which disburses funds twice a year. There is an accompanying blog post https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/comparison-of-our-2018-recommended-charities/ that links to a comparison chart and provides more explanation of how to compare top charities. Also accompanying it is the blog post https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/the-process-leading-to-our-2018-recommendations/ that provides more insight into the process leading up to ther choice of recommendations | ||
| Reducing Wild Animal Suffering Ecosystem & Directory (GW, IR) | 2018-10-31 | Evan Gaensbauer | Effective Altruism Forum | Effective Altruism Foundation Wild-Animal Suffering Research Animal Ethics Utility Farm Rethink Priorities The Hedonistic Imperative The Abolitionist Project Qualia Research Institute Sentience Politics Sentience Institute Animal Charity Evaluators | Review of current state of cause area | Animal welfare/wild animal welfare | The post covers the current state of the ecosystem of efforts to reduce wild-animal suffiering. It includes a diagram depicting the relations between organizations mentioned in the post | ||
| Concerns with ACE research | 2018-09-07 | John Halstead | Effective Altruism Forum | Animal Charity Evaluators The Humane League Animal Equality | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Jon Halstead discusses a few problems with the research and web presence of Animal Charity Evaluators. He notes that ACE now correctly considers grassroots outreach to be low-impact, but a lot of contradictory material is still on the website and used in the most recent charity evaluations. For corporate outreach, he wants to see ACE produce a high-quality and up-to-date review of the corporate outreach and cage-free welfare systems, and to independently check the claimed successes of animal welfare organizations in securing cage-free reforms | ||
| ACE's Response to John Halstead | 2018-09-07 | Toni Adleberg | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Charity Evaluators | Reasoning supplement | Animal welfare | Toni Adleberg, the new director of research at Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE), responds to concerns about ACE raised by John Halstead in http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1so/concerns_with_ace_research/ She clarifies the position ACE holds on its old intervention research, on its cost-effectiveness estimates, and on the relationship between intervention reports and charity reviews. She also outlines research priorities for 2019 | ||
| Updates on our Top Charities’ Room for Funding | 2018-07-23 | Kieran Grieg | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Equality The Good Food Institute The Humane League | Evaluator update on donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluator confirms that its 2017 end-of-year top charities still have sufficient room for funding and so it is not advising donors to stop funding these charities. Its estimates are based on reports from the charities of the amount of money they raised till the end of May, as well as known grant commitments from the Open Philanthropy Project | ||
| Where the ACE Staff Members Are Giving in 2017 and Why | 2017-12-26 | Allison Smith | Animal Charity Evaluators | Jon Bockman Allison Smith Toni Adleberg Sofia Davis-Fogel Kieran Greig Jamie Spurgeon Erika Alonso Eric Herboso Gina Stuessy | Animal Charity Evaluators The Good Food Institute Vegan Outreach A Well-Fed World Better Eating International Encompass Direct Action Everywhere Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund Against Malaria Foundation Animal equality The Nonhuman Rights Project AnimaNaturalis Internacional The Humane League GiveDirectly Food Empowerment Project Mercy For Animals New Harvest StrongMinds Centre for Effective Altruism Effective Altruism Funds Machine Intelligence Research Institute Donor lottery Sentience Institute Wild-Animal Suffering Research | Periodic donation list documentation | Animal welfare|AI safety|Global health and development|Effective altruism | Continuing an annual tradition started in 2016, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) staff describe where they donated or plan to donate in 2017. Donation amounts are not disclosed, likely by policy | |
| Updated Charity Recommendations: December 2017 | 2017-11-27 | Jon Bockman | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Equality The Good Food Institute The Humane League Faunalytics Vegan Outreach ProVeg Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries Compassion in World Farming USA The Humane Society of the United States L214 Nonhuman Rights Project Otwarte Klatki | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators publishes its top charity and standout charity recommendations for year-end 2017. Top charities are Animal Equality, The Good Food Institute, and The Humane League. Standout charities of general interest are Compassion in World Farming USA, L214, and Otwarte Klatki. Standout charities of special interest are Faunalytics and Nonhuman Rights Project | ||
| THE HUMANE LEAGUE. Archived Version: November, 2017 | 2017-11-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | The Humane League | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evalautors (ACE) publishes an updated review of THL. The weaknesses section is updated significantly, noting concern about the sustained high rate of expansion, as well as hoping for deeper critical engagement regarding intervention prioritization and smaller questions such as the implications of specific study findings. To quote: "This is particularly true given that, in the past, a number of studies from HLL have had significant flaws. We hope that HLL’s reorganization under a new director will help in this regard, and there are some positive signs already, including improved analyses of earlier studies." | |||
| ANIMAL EQUALITY, Archived Version: November, 2017 | 2017-11-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Equality | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes an updated review of Animal Equality. The review updates the November 2016 review by acknowledging the success so far of the international expansion. The weaknesses section remains the same as the November 2016 review | |||
| How to end animal agriculture as soon as possible | 2017-09-27 | Robert Wiblin Lewis Bollard | 80,000 Hours | Open Philanthropy | Mercy For Animals Compassion in World Farming The Humane League The Humane Society of the United States Humane Society International The Good Food Institute Animal Equality Animal Charity Evaluators | Broad donor strategy | Animal welfare/factory farming | Podcast with interview of Lewis Bollard (Farm Animal Welfare Program Officer at the Open Philanthropy Project) by Robert Wiblin of 80000 Hours, along with transcript. The podcast covers the strategy of the Open Philanthropy Project. 80000 Hours is an Open Philanthropy Project grant recipient and Wiblin was also on the board of Animal Charity Evaluators, an animal welfare-focused grant recipient that is discussed in the podcast. | |
| Updates on selected recommended charities’ room for more funding | 2017-06-14 | Toni Adleberg | Animal Charity Evaluators | The Good Food Institute Mercy For Animals The Humane League Animal Equality | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators reports results of a check-in with all its 2016 top charities and one standout charity (Animal Equality) that had previously been a top charity. It verifies that all of them still have room for more funding, therefore continues to recommend them | ||
| ACE fundraising restrictions | 2017-06-09 | Kalista Barter | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Charity Evaluators | Donee periodic update | Animal welfare | ACE describes its fundraising plans: it will restrict fundraising to the months of November and December, it will set a cap of $1 million on funds raised (any money over that will go to its recommended charities). And it will not fundraise if it raises $1 million by November | ||
| A model of Animal Charity Evaluators | 2017-05-20 | Dominik Peters Tom Sittler | Oxford Prioritisation Project | Oxford Prioritisation Project | Animal Charity Evaluators | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare/charity evaluator | This post describes a quantitative model of Animal Charity Evaluators, available at https://repl.it/HWJZ/23 on repl.it. It continues a previous post http://effective-altruism.com/ea/19g/charity_evaluators_first_model_and_open_questions/ that includes some open questions. Also posted to http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1af/a_model_of_animal_charity_evaluators_oxford/ for comments | |
| Four quantiative models, aggregation, and final decision | 2017-05-20 | Tom Sittler | Oxford Prioritisation Project | Oxford Prioritisation Project | 80,000 Hours Animal Charity Evaluators Machine Intelligence Research Institute StrongMinds | Single donation documentation | Effective altruism/career advice | The post describes how the Oxford Prioritisation Project compared its four finalists (80000 Hours, Animal Charity Evaluators, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and StrongMinds) by building quantitative models for each, including modeling of uncertainties. Based on these quantitative models, 80000 Hours was chosen as the winner. Also posted to http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1ah/four_quantiative_models_aggregation_and_final/ for comments | |
| Charity evaluators: a first model and open questions | 2017-04-25 | Dominik Peters Tom Sittler | Oxford Prioritisation Project | Oxford Prioritisation Project | GiveWell Animal Charity Evaluators | Review of current state of cause area | Charity evaluator | The abstract says: "We describe a simple simulation model for the recommendations of a charity evaluator like GiveWell or ACE. The model captures some real-world phenomena, such as initial overconfidence in impact estimates. We are unsure how to choose the parameters of the underlying distributions, and are happy to receive feedback on this." See http://effective-altruism.com/ea/19g/charity_evaluators_first_model_and_open_questions/ for a cross-post with comments | |
| Introducing CEA’s Guiding Principles | 2017-03-07 | William MacAskill | Centre for Effective Altruism | Effective Altruism Foundation | Rethink Charity Centre for Effective Altruism 80,000 Hours Animal Charity Evaluators Charity Science Effective Altruism Foundation Foundational Research Institute Future of Life Institute Raising for Effective Giving The Life You Can Save | Miscellaneous commentary | Effective altruism | Willam MacAskill outlines CEA's understanding of the guiding principles of effective altruism: commitment to others, scientific mindset, openness, integrity, and collaborative spirit. The post also lists other organizations that voice their support for these definitions and guiding principles, including: .impact, 80,000 Hours, Animal Charity Evaluators, Charity Science, Effective Altruism Foundation, Foundational Research Institute, Future of Life Institute, Raising for Effective Giving, and The Life You Can Save. The following individuals are also listed as voicing their support for the definition and guiding principles: Elie Hassenfeld of GiveWell and the Open Philanthropy Project, Holden Karnofsky of GiveWell and the Open Philanthropy Project, Toby Ord of the Future of Humanity Institute, Nate Soares of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and Peter Singer. William MacAskill worked on the document with Julia Wise, and also expresses gratitude to Rob Bensinger and Hilary Mayhew for their comments and wording suggestions. The post also briefly mentions an advisory panel set up by Julia Wise, and links to https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mdMyPRSSzYgk7X45K/advisory-panel-at-cea (GW, IR) for more detail | |
| The effective altruism guide to donating this giving season | 2016-12-28 | Robert Wiblin | 80,000 Hours | Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense Cool Earth Alliance for Safety and Justice Cosecha Centre for Effective Altruism 80,000 Hours Animal Charity Evaluators Compassion in World Farming USA Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative StrongMinds Ploughshares Fund Machine Intelligence Research Institute Future of Humanity Institute | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness,Global health and development,Animal welfare,AI risk,Global catastrophic risks,Effective altruism/movement growth | Robert Wiblin draws on a number of annual charity evaluations and reviews, as well as staff donation writeups, from sources such as GiveWell and Animal Charity Evaluators, to provide an "effective altruism guide" for 2016 Giving Season donation | ||
| Where the ACE Staff Members are Giving in 2016 and Why | 2016-12-23 | Leah Edgerton | Animal Charity Evaluators | Allison Smith Jacy Reese Toni Adleberg Gina Stuessy Kieran Grieg Eric Herboso Erika Alonso | Animal Charity Evaluators Animal Equality Vegan Outreach Act Asia Faunalytics Farm Animal Rights Movement Sentience Politics Direct Action Everywhere The Humane League The Good Food Institute Collectively Free Planned Parenthood Future of Life Institute Future of Humanity Institute GiveDirectly Machine Intelligence Research Institute The Humane Society of the United States Farm Sanctuary StrongMinds | Periodic donation list documentation | Animal welfare|AI safety|Global catastrophic risks | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) staff describe where they donated or plan to donate in 2016. Donation amounts are not disclosed, likely by policy | |
| Re-evaluating Animal Charity Evaluators: A response to Jon Bockman | 2016-12-22 | Harrison Nathan | Animal Charity Evaluators | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Nathan responds to some of the content in https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/responses-to-common-critiques/ by Jon Bockman. He continues to take ACE to task for not producing actionable or minimally justified research, and for camouflaging that by noting that their research is not "highly reliable". He contests the assertion by Bockman that Nick Cooney is only involved with Mercy For Animals, noting his role in producing research reports for The Humane League | |||
| Responses to common critiques | 2016-12-21 | Jon Bockman | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Charity Evaluators Animal Equality The Good Food Institute New Harvest The Humane League Mercy For Animals | Evaluator retrospective | Animal welfare | This post is written in response to criticism of Animal Charity Evaluators, largely criticism that came in as part of and after Harrison Nathan's post https://medium.com/@harrisonnathan/the-actual-number-is-almost-surely-higher-92c908f36517 Bockman agrees that the leafleting report is inaccurate and of low quality, and says that ACE was focused this year on new research and not on updating the outdated reports. He also explains the position taken by ACE on cost-effectiveness, the lack of diversity in recommendations, and concerns about diverting resources from other groups | ||
| Our recommendations of The Good Food Institute and New Harvest | 2016-12-21 | Allison Smith | Animal Charity Evaluators | The Good Food Institute New Harvest | Reasoning supplement | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators gives more of its reasoning on why it gave top charity status to the relatively new organization The Good Food Institute (GFI) while keeping the similar but more long-standing organization, New Harvest, in standout charity status | ||
| Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff - 2016 | 2016-12-14 | Holden Karnofsky | Open Philanthropy | Jaime Yassif Chloe Cockburn Lewis Bollard Daniel Dewey Nick Beckstead | Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense Alliance for Safety and Justice Cosecha Animal Charity Evaluators Compassion in World Farming USA Machine Intelligence Research Institute Future of Humanity Institute 80,000 Hours Ploughshares Fund | Donation suggestion list | Animal welfare|AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness|Effective altruism|Migration policy | Open Philanthropy Project staff describe suggestions for best donation opportunities for individual donors in their specific areas. | |
| The Actual Number is Almost Surely Higher: An Evaluation of Effective Animal Activism | 2016-12-09 | Harrison Nathan | Animal Charity Evaluators The Humane League Mercy For Animals Vegan Outreach The Good Food Institute The Humane Society of the United States Faunalytics | Review of current state of cause area | Animal welfare | Harrison Nathan is critical of Animal Charity Evaluators and their top charities, in particular, the way the organizations justify their programs. He calls their approach pseudoscientific, and also believes the effective altruist movement has blind spots and is easily co-opted by industry, not sensitive on matters related to wild-animal suffering, and has too many conflicts of interest | |||
| Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2016 | 2016-12-09 | Natalie Crispin | GiveWell | Elie Hassenfeld Holden Karnofsky Natalie Crispin Alexander Berger Timothy Telleen-Lawton Josh Rosenberg Rebecca Raible Helen Toner Sophie Monahan Laura Muñoz Catherine Hollander Andrew Martin Lewis Bollard Chelsea Tabart Sarah Ward Chris Somerville Ajeya Cotra Chris Smith Isabel Arjmand | A political campaign GiveWell top charities International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation UPMC Center for Health Security Donor lottery EA Giving Group GiveDirectly Center for Applied Rationality Malaria Consortium Animal Charity Evaluators Northwest Health Law Advocates StrongMinds Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative The Humane Society of the United States The Humane League Mercy For Animals Humane Society International Compassion in World Farming USA The Good Food Institute Citizens for Farm Animal Protection The END Fund Causa Justa Planned Parenthood International Refugee Assistance Project | Periodic donation list documentation | GiveWell and Open Philanthropy Project staff describe their annual donation plans for 2016. Some of these are tentative and get superseded by further events. Also, not all employees are present in the document (participation is optional). Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell | ||
| CEA Staff Donation Decisions 2016 | 2016-12-06 | Sam Deere | Centre for Effective Altruism | William MacAskill Michelle Hutchinson Tara MacAulay Alison Woodman Seb Farquhar Hauke Hillebrandt Marinella Capriati Sam Deere Max Dalton Larissa Hesketh-Rowe Michael Page Stefan Schubert Pablo Stafforini Amy Labenz | Centre for Effective Altruism 80,000 Hours Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Animal Charity Evaluators Charity Science Health New Incentives Project Healthy Children Deworm the World Initiative Machine Intelligence Research Institute StrongMinds Future of Humanity Institute Future of Life Institute Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Effective Altruism Foundation Sci-Hub Vote.org The Humane League Foundational Research Institute | Periodic donation list documentation | Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) staff describe their donation plans. The donation amounts are not disclosed. | ||
| Our 2016 recommendation of Animal Equality | 2016-11-28 | Jon Bockman | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Equality | Reasoning supplement | Animal welfare | ACE explains its decision to move Animal Equality from top charity status to standout charity status, and addresses concerns that this move will hurt the fundraising prospects of Animal Equality | ||
| Updated Recommendations: December 2016 | 2016-11-28 | Jon Bockman | Animal Charity Evaluators | Mercy For Animals The Humane League The Good Food Institute VEBU Animal Equality The Humane Society of the United States Vegan Outreach Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Animal welfare | Mercy For Animals and The Humane League remain top charities, and The Good Food Institute added to the list; Animal Equality moved from top charity to standout charity; VEBU added to standout charities | ||
| ANIMAL EQUALITY. Archived Version: November, 2016 | 2016-11-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Equality | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes an updated review of Animal Equality. By the time of this review, Animal Equality has expanded from seven to eight countries (Brazil being the new country). The review lists the same strengths and weaknesses as the December 2015 review did, with slight language changes | |||
| VEGAN OUTREACH. Archived Version: November, 2016 | 2016-11-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Vegan Outreach | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes an updated review of Vegan Outreach (VO). The strengths section is mostly the same as in the December 2014 review, but removes a sentence about confidence that the charity can use additional funds well. The weaknesses section is similar to the December 2014 review, but expands more on concerns that VO has been experimenting too much based on poor sources of evidence, and does not have any program with a clear track record | |||
| THE HUMANE LEAGUE. Archived Version: November, 2016 | 2016-11-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | The Humane League | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes an updated review of THL. The review removes from the weaknesses section the concern about lack of transparency | |||
| MERCY FOR ANIMALS. Archived Version: November, 2016 | 2016-11-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Mercy For Animals | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes an updated review of MFA. The review points to undercover investigations and the approach to consumer outreach as strengths. It also notes that although ACE is skeptical about the online ads program, general funds are not directed to it as it is fully funded by donors explicitly interested in online ads, so this is not an argument against funding | |||
| THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE. Archived Version: November, 2016 | 2016-11-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | The Good Food Institute | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes its first detailed review of The Good Food Institute (GFI). Previously, the then-nascent GFI was mentioned in an ACE review of Mercy For Animals in December 2015 https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/mercy-for-animals/2015-dec/ Given that GFI has been around since only February 2016, both the strengths and weaknesses are speculative. The strengths hinge around the promise of the domain that GFI is working on, as well as its leadership and strategic vision. The weaknesses center around the short track record and the expected long timeframe needed to achieve the ambitious goal of animal-free alternatives | |||
| Where I Am Donating in 2016 | 2016-11-01 | Michael Dickens | Effective Altruism Forum | Michael Dickens | Animal Charity Evaluators The Good Food Institute Mercy For Animals Raising for Effective Giving | Single donation documentation | Animal welfare, AI risk | Dickens described his evaluation of each of the four finalists and the reasoning behind his (tentatively) final decision to give to The Good Food Institute | |
| Where should you donate to have the most impact during giving season 2015? | 2015-12-24 | Robert Wiblin | 80,000 Hours | Against Malaria Foundation Giving What We Can GiveWell AidGrade Effective Altruism Outreach Animal Charity Evaluators Machine Intelligence Research Institute Raising for Effective Giving Center for Applied Rationality Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Ploughshares Fund Future of Humanity Institute Future of Life Institute Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Charity Science Deworm the World Initiative Schistosomiasis Control Initiative GiveDirectly | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and development|Effective altruism/movement growth|Epistemic institutions|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness|AI risk|Global catastrophic risks | Robert Wiblin draws on GiveWell recommendations, Animal Charity Evaluators recommendations, Open Philanthropy Project writeups, staff donation writeups and suggestions, as well as other sources (including personal knowledge and intuitions) to come up with a list of places to donate | ||
| Where the ACE Staff Members Are Giving and Why | 2015-12-21 | Leah Edgerton | Animal Charity Evaluators | Jon Bockman Allison Smith Erika Alonso Jacy Reese Kieran Grieg | Animal Charity Evaluators Vegan Outreach Mercy For Animals Direct Action Everywhere The Humane League Animal Equality Farm Sanctuary The Humane Society of the United States Animal Equality Nonhuman Rights Project New Harvest Charity Science Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Raising for Effective Giving | Periodic donation list documentation | Animal welfare|Global health and development|Effective altruism | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) staff describe where they donated or plan to donate in 2015. Donation amounts are not disclosed, likely by policy | |
| Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2015 | 2015-12-09 | Elie Hassenfeld | GiveWell | Elie Hassenfeld Holden Karnofsky Natalie Crispin Alexander Berger Timothy Telleen-Lawton Sean Conley Josh Rosenberg Jake Marcus Rebecca Raible Milan Griffes Helen Toner Sophie Monahan Laura Muñoz Catherine Hollander Andrew Martin Claire Zabel Nicole Ross Lewis Bollard | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation GiveWell GiveDirectly Wikimedia Foundation Center for Global Development Martha’s Table Country Dance and Song Society Northwest Health Law Advocates Mercy For Animals The Humane League Animal Charity Evaluators Raising for Effective Giving Humane Society of te United States | Periodic donation list documentation | GiveWell and Open Philanthropy Project staff describe their annual donation plans for 2015. Some of these are tentative and get superseded by further events. Also, not all employees are present in the document (participation is optional). Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell | ||
| MERCY FOR ANIMALS. Archived Version: December, 2015 | 2015-12-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Mercy For Animals The Good Food Institute | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes an updated review of MFA. The review includes a caveat stating lower confidence about the marginal value of additional donations, in particular the parts spent on "easily expanded" activities like online ads. Room for more funding estimates are also updated, with an estimate of $300,000 for usable funding. The review also talks about the possible launch of The Good Food Institute using some of this funding | |||
| ANIMAL EQUALITY. Archived Version: December, 2015 | 2015-12-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Equality | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes an updated review of Animal Equality. It mostly builds on the previous review, but notes that they are less concerned about the sustainability of Animal Equality after an additional year of track record. The review also notes uncertainty about the effectiveness of animal advocacy in countries other than the United States | |||
| Updated Recommendations: December 2015 | 2015-12-01 | Jon Bockman | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Equality Mercy For Animals The Humane League Animal Ethics Animals Australia Faunalytics New Harvest Nonhuman Rights Project Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries The Humane Society of the United States Vegan Outreach | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Animal welfare | 2015 recommendations list; top charities are Animal Equality,Mercy For Animals, and The Humane League; five new standout charities added to existing four | ||
| THE HUMANE LEAGUE. Archived Version: December, 2015 | 2015-12-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | The Humane League | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes an updated review of THL. The review updates on the December 2014 review by noting that the "organizational structure appears to be strong, with a cohesive, positive, and democratic organizational culture promoting positive relationships between THL staff, board members, and volunteers." The weaknesses section is also updated, with notes of concern: "We also have some concerns about their system of considering local offices cost effective as long as they raise as much money as they spend, regardless of their programs’ effectiveness when compared to the national programs’ effectiveness. Finally, we would like to see deeper critical engagement from them with regard to big questions as well as smaller ones like how to interpret particular study findings. One big question that seems especially important for THL is the value of individual dietary change." | |||
| My Cause Selection: Michael Dickens | 2015-09-15 | Michael Dickens | Effective Altruism Forum | Michael Dickens | Machine Intelligence Research Institute Future of Humanity Institute Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Future of Life Institute Open Philanthropy Animal Charity Evaluators Animal Ethics Foundational Research Institute Giving What We Can Charity Science Raising for Effective Giving | Single donation documentation | Animal welfare,AI risk,Effective altruism | Explanation by Dickens of giving choice for 2015. After some consideration, narrows choice to three orgs: MIRI, ACE, and REG. Finally chooses REG due to weighted donation multiplier | |
| THE HUMANE LEAGUE. Archived Version: December, 2014 | 2014-12-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | The Humane League | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes an updated review of THL. The review is largely the same as the May 2014 review. The review adds to the weaknesses section a note about wanting to see more statistical analysis of the findings in the Humane League Labs program | |||
| ANIMAL EQUALITY. Archived Version: December, 2014 | 2014-12-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Equality | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes its first detailed review of Animal Equality. The stated strength is that the organization conducts undercover investigations very efficienctly, at a fraction of the cost that others do. The geographical diversity and lack of paid staff is also highlighted as a potential weakness for their long-term sustainability | |||
| VEGAN OUTREACH. Archived Version: December, 2014 | 2014-12-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Vegan Outreach | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes an updated review of Vegan Outreach (VO). The strengths listed are the same as in the May 2014 review. The weaknesses are somewhat modified: ACE is now happy that VO has recently started engaging in experimentation to maximize impact. Concerns about leadership transition are no longer mentioned in the weaknesses section | |||
| MERCY FOR ANIMALS. Archived version: December, 2014 | 2014-12-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Mercy For Animals | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes its second detailed review of Mercy For Animals. The qualitative contents remain similar to the May 2014 review. The main changes are to the estimates of room for more funding and the expected allocation of additional funding | |||
| THE HUMANE LEAGUE. Archived Version: May, 2014 | 2014-05-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | The Humane League | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes its first detailed review of THL. It identifies the biggest strength of THL as its overall outlook and approach to advocacy, including their strong efforts to assess their own programs, as well as publication of their research through Humane League Labs to affect the thinking of other animal welfare organizations. The main weakness identified was the lack of transparency and clear information about the organization itself, but ACE said that the organization was cooperative when asked to share information. At the time of this review, ACE finds the THL approach of using online ads promising | |||
| VEGAN OUTREACH. Archived Version: May, 2014 | 2014-05-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Vegan Outreach | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes its first detailed review of Vegan Outreach (VO). Strengths include a long track record of a program that ACE considers cost-effective. Weaknesses include a concern that VO is heavily reliant on anecdotal evidence and is not collecting and therefore not responsive to data suggesting direction changes. Also, the ongoing leadership transition makes it harder for ACE to understand how the organization would be guided going forward | |||
| MERCY FOR ANIMALS. Archived Version: May, 2014 | 2014-05-01 | Animal Charity Evaluators | Mercy For Animals | Evaluator review of donee | Animal welfare | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) publishes its first detailed review of Mercy For Animals. The review gives the charity a "Top Charity" status. It identifies the following strengths: the main program (undercover investigations) and the approach to individual/consumer level outreach has high expected effectiveness. It identifies uncertainty about organizational stability as a weakness |
Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
| Donor | Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 47) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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| Open Philanthropy | 650,000.00 | 1 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-charity-evaluators-general-support-2020 | Amanda Hungerford | Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Intended use of funds: The grant page says: "ACE seeks to build a more effective farm animal welfare movement by identifying the most effective animal welfare charities and recommending them to donors." Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant page says: "Our farm animal welfare team believes ACE’s top charities are consistently effective, and finds value in pushing farm animal welfare organizations to focus on effectiveness and impact." Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): No specific reason for the amount is provided. The amount is almost double the previous 2-year grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-charity-evaluators-general-support made in April 2017; the increase might reflect increased budget of the donee or greater confidence in it from Open Phil. Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): The timing is shortly after the end of the two-year time for the previous grant. Intended funding timeframe in months: 24 Other notes: This is a total across two grants. |
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| Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund | 500,000.00 | 2 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare/payouts/4Bianu30diUQeWGU2Oiq8E | Lewis Bollard | Donation process: Part of the June 2018 grant round disbursing $1,205,000. Specifically, this is part of the set of grants made in the "Research and EA movement building" category in the grant round, which totals $760,000 Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Intended use of funds: Grant to support ACE's operations. However, Bollard expects that ACE will hit its self-imposed limit of $1.25 million in funds raised, and will therefore redirect the excess funds to its top charities, which is also something Bollard is fine with Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant page says: "I think ACE: (1) serves a critical role in the farm animal movement in promoting EA values (transparency, use of data, constant reflection on what works), (2) has room for more funding and good plans for spending additional funds, and (3) will raise more funds for its recommended charities if it can wrap up fundraising for itself earlier in the year, which it will do once it hits its self-imposed cap of $1.25M to support ACE’s operations." Also: "And I see additional benefits to giving ACE greater financial security sooner and more influence over the distribution of funds in the movement." Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): The grant page says: "This is an unusually large and conventional grant for the EA Fund. But the EA Fund raised over $2M last year — thank you for your generosity! — and I don’t want it to sit idle while I identify more small and unique funding opportunities." Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 41.49% Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round |
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| Peter Hurford | 1,000.00 | 19 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Michael Dello-Iacovo | 30.00 | 39 | FIXME | http://www.michaeldello.com/donations-log/ | -- | Gift for a friend. Affected regions: FIXME; affected countries: FIXME. | |
| Peter Hurford | 9.00 | 46 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | For UPS fees. | |
| Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund | 10,000.00 | 5 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare/payouts/tI97LtH5AsIkgUa2IMCKi | Lewis Bollard | Donation process: Part of the April 2017 grant round disbursing $180,000 Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Intended use of funds: The grant page says that ACE works to "build a more effective farm animal movement through research, charity recommendations, and outreach to donors, researchers, and advocates." Donor reason for selecting the donee: On the grrant page, Bollard says that he likes the work ACE does to "build a more effective farm animal movement through research, charity recommendations, and outreach to donors, researchers, and advocates." Moreover, at the time of making the grant recommendation, he was concerned that ACE will not fill its room for more funding this year Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): Amount likely determined based on funds available, competing needs of other grrantees, and room for more funding of the grantee Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 55.60% Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round, as well as funding situation of the grantee Donor thoughts on making further donations to the donee: The grant page says: "I’m now more confident that funding gap will be filled by large funders, so it’s unlikely that I’ll direct more funds to ACE this year." This confidence is likely linked to a $500,000 grant from the Open Philanthropy Project (investigated by Bollard) that happens around the same time: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-charity-evaluators-general-support Donor retrospective of the donation: Bollard would recommend a $500,000 grant from the Open Philanthropy Project at around the same time: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-charity-evaluators-general-support The Animal Welfare Fund would also make a $500,000 grant to ACE in 2018: https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare/payouts/4Bianu30diUQeWGU2Oiq8E This suggests that Bollard would continue to stand by his positive assessment of ACE that motivated the grant |
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| Open Philanthropy | 500,000.00 | 2 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-charity-evaluators-general-support | Lewis Bollard | Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Intended use of funds: The grant page section https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-charity-evaluators-general-support#Proposed_activities lists these proposed activities: increasing compensation (by $2,000 to $4,000 per year), adding staff time, hiring for two research positions, making small grants to evaluated charities (in the range of $500 to $1,000 per charity), intern stipends, and fundraising. The grant will increase ACE's expected revenue for 2017 from around $635,000 to $885,000. See also budget without Open Phil funding https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/Animal_Charity_Evaluators/ACE_2017_Budget_not_including_OP_grant.pdf budget with Open Phil funding https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/Animal_Charity_Evaluators/ACE_2017_Budget_including_OP_grant.pdf and plans for Open Phil funding https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/Animal_Charity_Evaluators/ACE_Plans_for_OP_grant_funding.pdf Donor reason for selecting the donee: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-charity-evaluators-general-support#Case_for_the_grant gives these reasons: (1) Open Phil's version for the farm animal welfare movement in the next decade or two includes "an important role for an institution similar to a scaled-up version of ACE" (2) Open Phil expects that "the improvements ACE plans to make with this grant will allow it to direct more money to animal welfare groups that we consider highly effective, so we consider it fairly likely that this grant will achieve a roughly one-to-one return on investment in the near-term" (3) Open Phil hopes that the grant will help ACE address "what we view as some current shortcomings, including unsustainably low salaries, reliance on low-quality research, and undervaluing of long-term gainsx". Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): Amount likely determined based on budgets submitted by ACE and intended use of funds; see budget without Open Phil funding https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/Animal_Charity_Evaluators/ACE_2017_Budget_not_including_OP_grant.pdf budget with Open Phil funding https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/Animal_Charity_Evaluators/ACE_2017_Budget_including_OP_grant.pdf and plans for Open Phil funding https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/Animal_Charity_Evaluators/ACE_Plans_for_OP_grant_funding.pdf Donor retrospective of the donation: The followup grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-charity-evaluators-general-support-2020 and the continued endorsement on the grant page suggests that Open Phil would be satisfied with the success of the grant. Other notes: See also https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/on-receiving-a-grant-from-the-open-philanthropy-project/ on the ACE blog. It says "We feel that this grant is a reaffirmation of the value and impact of ACE’s work, and we are incredibly honored to have been selected." It says: "To those who may wonder if ACE will still be able to efficiently use additional donations, at this stage the answer is an emphatic yes." It links to https://animalcharityevaluators.org/about/background/goals-and-strategy/ fo the goals for 2017, and to https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/ace-fundraising-restrictions/ for its 2017 fundraising. Intended funding timeframe in months: 24; announced: 2017-06-09. |
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| Peter Hurford | 1,000.00 | 19 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | Thank you donation. | |
| Peter Hurford | 24.00 | 41 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Michael Dello-Iacovo | 100.00 | 35 | FIXME | http://www.michaeldello.com/donations-log/ | -- | Affected regions: FIXME; affected countries: FIXME. | |
| Peter Hurford | 12.00 | 45 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Max Broad | 50.00 | 38 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 50.00 USD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| David Barry | 1,833.40 | 15 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 2,300.00 AUD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Katerina Manoli | 26.29 | 40 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 20.00 GBP (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Michael Sesser | 300.00 | 31 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 300.00 USD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Harry Greenwell | 2,391.39 | 13 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 3,000.00 AUD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Grace King | 13.15 | 44 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 10.00 GBP (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Arvind Raghavan | 147.46 | 33 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 200.00 SGD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| James Harris | 319.44 | 30 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 243.00 GBP (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Josh Jacobson | 7,200.00 | 9 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 7,200.00 USD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Nicholas Link | 1,000.00 | 19 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 1,000.00 USD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Cornelis Haupt | 23.86 | 42 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 30.00 CAD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Marius Hobbhahn | 23.74 | 43 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 20.00 EUR (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Kyle Bogosian | 2.00 | 47 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 2.00 USD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Kieran Greig | 1,590.84 | 16 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 2,000.00 CAD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Vidur Kapur | 122.26 | 34 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 93.00 GBP (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Joshua Kissel | 3,800.00 | 11 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 3,800.00 USD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Saulius Šimčikas | 1,079.27 | 18 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 821.00 GBP (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Denis Drescher | 1,186.80 | 17 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 1,000.00 EUR (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Patrick Brinich-Langlois | 10,000.00 | 5 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://www.patbl.com/misc/other/donations/ | -- | ||
| Pablo Stafforini | 69.35 | 37 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://www.stafforini.com/blog/donations/ | -- | ||
| Patrick Brinich-Langlois | 10,000.00 | 5 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://www.patbl.com/misc/other/donations/ | -- | Grant from The Eleemosynary Flying Orang−Utans Fund. | |
| Michael Dickens | 3,000.00 | 12 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://mdickens.me/donations/ | Stanford EA | Part of a collective donation by Stanford EA; Dickens had a preference for THL but deferred to group consensus. | |
| Josh Jacobson | 1,000.00 | 19 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 1,000.00 USD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Vidur Kapur | 86.76 | 36 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 66.00 GBP (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Denis Drescher | 785.84 | 27 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 662.15 EUR (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Joshua Kissel | 2,000.00 | 14 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 2,000.00 USD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| David Barry | 557.99 | 29 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 700.00 AUD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Kieran Greig | 795.42 | 26 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 1,000.00 CAD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Michael Sesser | 250.00 | 32 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 250.00 USD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Harry Greenwell | 3,985.65 | 10 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 5,000.00 AUD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io). | |
| Patrick Brinich-Langlois | 10,000.00 | 5 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | https://www.patbl.com/misc/other/donations/ | -- | ||
| Pablo Stafforini | 1,000.00 | 19 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://www.stafforini.com/blog/donations/ | -- | ||
| Pablo Stafforini | 1,000.00 | 19 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://www.stafforini.com/blog/donations/ | -- | ||
| Pablo Stafforini | 1,000.00 | 19 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://www.stafforini.com/blog/donations/ | -- | ||
| Brian Tomasik | 12,000.00 | 4 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://reducing-suffering.org/my-donations-past-and-present/ | Nick Cooney | Called Effective Animal Activism (EAA) at the time; switch from Vegan Outreach to this was because of belief in higher leverage per dollar. Employer match: Microsoft matched 12,000.00; Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 100.00%. | |
| Peter Hurford | 660.00 | 28 | Animal welfare/factory farming/meta/charity evaluator | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- |