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 |
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| Country |
| 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 |
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| Overall | 2 | 300,000 | 320,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 340,000 | 340,000 | 340,000 | 340,000 | 340,000 |
| Land use reform | 2 | 300,000 | 320,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 340,000 | 340,000 | 340,000 | 340,000 | 340,000 |
| Donor | Total | 2019 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) | 640,000.00 | 340,000.00 | 300,000.00 |
| Total | 640,000.00 | 340,000.00 | 300,000.00 |
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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 2) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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| Open Philanthropy | 340,000.00 | 1 | Land use reform | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/california-renters-legal-advocacy-and-education-fund-general-support-2019 | Alexander Berger | Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Intended use of funds: Grantee intends to continue pursuing litigation, advocating against regulatory barriers to building housing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and developing educational resources. Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): The original grant amount was $400,000, but the grantee returned $60,000 of unused funds. Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): The grant timing is a little after the end of the timeframe of the previous two-grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/california-renters-legal-advocacy-and-education-fund-general-support (2016-06). Intended funding timeframe in months: 24 Donor retrospective of the donation: The later grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/yimby-law-general-support to YIMBY Law, based on its founder's work at California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, can be thought of as a continued vote of confidence in the work funded by the grant. Other notes: Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; announced: 2019-05-18. |
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| Open Philanthropy | 300,000.00 | 2 | Land use reform | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/california-renters-legal-advocacy-and-education-fund-general-support | Alexander Berger | Donation process: According to https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/california-renters-legal-advocacy-and-education-fund-general-support#Our_process "Alexander Berger, who leads our work on land use reform, heard from Trauss that she was planning to start a new organization focused on land use reform in the Bay Area." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Intended use of funds: Grantee is a nascent advocacy organization that intends to litigate and advocate against regulatory barriers to building housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. More at https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/california-renters-legal-advocacy-and-education-fund-general-support#Proposed_activities Donor reason for selecting the donee: According to https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/california-renters-legal-advocacy-and-education-fund-general-support#Case_for_the_grant (1) The San Francisco Bay Area is a key region for land use reform, (2) The founder, Sonja Trauss, has been able to attract some public interest to the issue in San Francisco through the SF Bay Area Renters’ Federation (SFBARF), which she also founded. Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): There is background at https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/california-renters-legal-advocacy-and-education-fund-general-support#Budget_and_room_for_more_funding saying the organization has received $100,000 from another donor, and may be able to raise more funding if it attempts Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): This is (sort of) a founding grant to a nascent advocacy organization Intended funding timeframe in months: 24 Donor retrospective of the donation: The followup grant ttps://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/california-renters-legal-advocacy-and-education-fund-general-support-2019 (2019-02) suggests continued satisfaction with the grantee. Other notes: Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: San Francisco; announced: 2016-06-28. |