Behavioral Ideas Lab donations received

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 March 2022. 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.

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Donee donation statistics
Donee donation amounts by donor and year
Donee document list
Donee donation list

Basic donee information

Item	Value
Country

Donee donation statistics

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	12	500,852	936,829	-1,536,768	55,000	225,250	399,993	489,230	500,852	727,580	986,120	1,055,811	2,291,117	5,361,516
Financing	2	-1,536,768	1,912,374	-1,536,768	-1,536,768	-1,536,768	-1,536,768	-1,536,768	-1,536,768	5,361,516	5,361,516	5,361,516	5,361,516	5,361,516
Criminal justice reform	3	225,250	226,748	55,000	55,000	55,000	55,000	225,250	225,250	225,250	399,993	399,993	399,993	399,993
Health	1	489,230	489,230	489,230	489,230	489,230	489,230	489,230	489,230	489,230	489,230	489,230	489,230	489,230
Evidence-Based Policy	4	986,120	1,208,475	500,852	500,852	500,852	986,120	986,120	986,120	1,055,811	1,055,811	2,291,117	2,291,117	2,291,117
Global development	2	686,248	706,914	686,248	686,248	686,248	686,248	686,248	686,248	727,580	727,580	727,580	727,580	727,580

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Behavioral Ideas Lab

Donor	Total	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013
Arnold Ventures (filter this donee)	6,003,373.00	990,082.00	0.00	2,346,117.00	986,120.00	1,055,811.00	625,243.00
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (filter this donee)	5,238,576.00	-1,536,768.00	686,248.00	0.00	6,089,096.00	0.00	0.00
Total	11,241,949.00	-546,686.00	686,248.00	2,346,117.00	7,075,216.00	1,055,811.00	625,243.00

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (12 donations)

Graph of top 10 donors by amount, showing the timeframe of donations

Donor	Amount (current USD)	Amount rank (out of 12)	Donation date	Cause area	URL	Influencer	Notes
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation	-1,536,768.00	12	2018-07-13	Financing/Formal sector financial intermediaries	https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf	--	to rigorously test the triggers and obstacles for uptake and usage of mobile money and digital financial services by poor households in developing countries, by supporting digital financial service providers to adopt and use A/B testing and quick experime; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
Arnold Ventures	489,230.00	8	2018	Health	https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/	--	To design, implement, and test a set of behavioral interventions in emergency departments to improve outcomes for patients with opioid use disorder.
Arnold Ventures	500,852.00	7	2018	Evidence-Based Policy	https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/	--	To support the execution of demonstration projects, scaling of successful interventions, and institutionalization of evidence-based decision-making and behavioral science in New York City government.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation	686,248.00	6	2017-05-26	Global development/Promotion of development awareness (non-sector allocable)	https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf	--	to apply behavioral science to explore opportunities to shift the giving behavior of individual donors in the US; Aid type: Development awareness. Affected countries: United states of america (the).
Arnold Ventures	55,000.00	11	2016	Criminal justice reform	https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/	--	To help advise jurisdictions on best practices for the use of the Public Safety Assessment.
Arnold Ventures	2,291,117.00	2	2016	Evidence-Based Policy	https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/	--	To leverage insights from behavioral science to ensure that federal, state, and local policies are based on rigorous research.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation	5,361,516.00	1	2015-10-28	Financing/Formal sector financial intermediaries	https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf	--	to rigorously test the triggers and obstacles for uptake and usage of mobile money and digital financial services by poor households in developing countries, by supporting digital financial service providers to adopt and use A/B testing and quick experime; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation	727,580.00	5	2015-08-26	Global development/Promotion of development awareness (non-sector allocable)	https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf	--	to apply behavioral science to explore opportunities to shift the giving behavior of individual donors in the US; Aid type: Development awareness. Affected countries: United states of america (the).
Arnold Ventures	986,120.00	4	2015	Evidence-Based Policy	https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/	--	To support evidence-based policymaking within city governments.
Arnold Ventures	1,055,811.00	3	2014	Evidence-Based Policy	https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/	--	To support evidence-based policymaking within the federal government.
Arnold Ventures	225,250.00	10	2013	Criminal justice reform	https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/	--	To provide consultation on the design and implementation of the Public Safety Assessment.
Arnold Ventures	399,993.00	9	2013	Criminal justice reform	https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/	--	To design a cognitive behavioral therapy curriculum to help reduce crime and violence.