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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 | 32 | 200,000 | 331,176 | 10,000 | 45,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 150,000 | 200,000 | 248,832 | 325,000 | 400,000 | 750,000 | 2,000,000 |
Economics | 2 | 10,000 | 129,416 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 248,832 | 248,832 | 248,832 | 248,832 | 248,832 |
Environment | 16 | 150,000 | 177,188 | 12,500 | 47,500 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 175,000 | 300,000 | 325,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 |
Environmentalism | 10 | 200,000 | 522,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 45,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 400,000 | 400,000 | 750,000 | 1,000,000 | 2,000,000 |
Clean Energy | 2 | 75,000 | 87,500 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
New Initiatives | 2 | 659,500 | 1,054,396 | 659,500 | 659,500 | 659,500 | 659,500 | 659,500 | 659,500 | 1,449,292 | 1,449,292 | 1,449,292 | 1,449,292 | 1,449,292 |
Donor | Total | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1998 | 1997 |
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Hewlett Foundation (filter this donee) | 5,220,000.00 | 1,000,000.00 | 950,000.00 | 0.00 | 2,045,000.00 | 800,000.00 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
John Merck Fund (filter this donee) | 3,010,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 75,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 300,000.00 | 372,500.00 | 325,000.00 | 350,000.00 | 350,000.00 | 175,000.00 | 125,000.00 | 275,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 112,500.00 |
Arnold Ventures (filter this donee) | 2,108,792.00 | 1,449,292.00 | 0.00 | 659,500.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Sloan Foundation (filter this donee) | 258,832.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 248,832.00 | 10,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Total | 10,597,624.00 | 2,449,292.00 | 950,000.00 | 659,500.00 | 2,045,000.00 | 800,000.00 | 200,000.00 | 323,832.00 | 110,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 372,500.00 | 325,000.00 | 375,000.00 | 350,000.00 | 175,000.00 | 125,000.00 | 275,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 112,500.00 |
Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
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Update on CATF's plans for 2020 (GW, IR) | 2019-12-24 | Sanjay Joshi | SoGive | Clean Air Task Force | Donee periodic update | Climate change | The blog post is a collection of notes from a videoconference on 2019-12-18 between Sanjay Joshi of SoGive, a giving platform, and the Clean Air Task Force, one of the charities recommended by SoGive, to which SoGive has directed some funds. The notes are written up by Sanjay Joshi and reviewed for correctness and lack-of-confidentiality by CATF. Also posted to the SoGive blog at https://thinkingaboutcharity.blogspot.com/2019/12/update-on-catfs-plans-for-2020.html | ||
Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2019 | 2019-12-10 | Catherine Hollander | GiveWell | Elie Hassenfeld Natalie Crispin Josh Rosenberg Catherine Hollander Andrew Martin Isabel Arjmand Nicole Zok Dan Brown Olivia Larsen Steph Stojanovic James Snowden Michael Eddy Kimberly Huynh Teryn Mattox Jim Bobowski | GiveWell top charities Malaria Consortium GiveDirectly StrongMinds Cool Earth Clean Air Task Force ProPublica Sogorea Te Land Trust Stonewall (UK) Afrinspire Against Malaria Foundation One for the World Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention Young1ove Namati Astraea Foundation UHAI-EASHRI The Other Foundation Colombia Diversa The Trevor Project Médecins Sans Frontières Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund | Periodic donation list documentation | Continuing an annual tradition started in 2013, GiveWell staff members describe where they are donating. Some of the main themes: staff members deciding whether to donate directly to specific GiveWell top charities or donate to GiveWell for regranting to top charities. While most people choose the latter, a few choose the former for reasons including tax advantages, opinion of other family members, and slightly different moral weights than those used by GiveWell. Donors also talk about setting aside small portions of their giving for other kinds of causes, including animal welfare, AI safety, climate change, mental health, social justice, and local philanthropy. Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell | ||
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 | ||
New research on effective climate charities (GW, IR) | 2018-07-11 | John Halstead | Effective Altruism Forum | Founders Pledge | Clean Air Task Force Coalition for Rainforest Nations Cool Earth | Review of current state of cause area | Climate change | The blog post links to a new Founders Pledge report on climate change, published on their research page at https://founderspledge.com/research -- the current version of the report is at https://founderspledge.com/stories/climate-change-executive-summary The two charities identified by the report as good places to donate are the Clean Air Task Force and Coalition for Rainforest Nations. The comments include a lengthy critique by Matthew Dahlhauser along with a reply from Halstead. The report also discusses why Founders Pledge does not recommend Cool Earth (a charity that Giving What We Can had tentatively recommended in the past for climate change, based on its shallow review), and the comments on the post ask more about the reasoning |
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 32) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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Hewlett Foundation | 1,000,000.00 | 3 | Environmentalism | https://hewlett.org/grants/clean-air-task-force-for-general-operating-support-1/ | -- | For General Operating Support. | |
Arnold Ventures | 1,449,292.00 | 2 | New Initiatives | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To provide recommendations on energy policies to advance the development and lower the cost of new emission-free energy sources. | |
Hewlett Foundation | 200,000.00 | 14 | Environmentalism | https://hewlett.org/grants/clean-air-task-force-for-the-center-for-carbon-removal/ | -- | For The Center For Carbon Removal. | |
Hewlett Foundation | 750,000.00 | 4 | Environmentalism | https://hewlett.org/grants/clean-air-task-force-for-carbon-capture-and-storage-work/ | -- | For Carbon Capture And Storage Work. | |
Arnold Ventures | 659,500.00 | 5 | New Initiatives | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To identify cost-effective solutions to meet the rising energy demand while minimizing adverse climate effects. | |
Hewlett Foundation | 45,000.00 | 29 | Environmentalism | https://hewlett.org/grants/clean-air-task-force-for-the-carbon-capture-and-storage-project/ | -- | For The Carbon Capture And Storage Project. | |
Hewlett Foundation | 2,000,000.00 | 1 | Environmentalism | https://hewlett.org/grants/clean-air-task-force-for-general-operating-support-0/ | -- | For General Operating Support. | |
Hewlett Foundation | 400,000.00 | 6 | Environmentalism | https://hewlett.org/grants/clean-air-task-force-for-general-operating-support/ | -- | For General Operating Support. | |
Hewlett Foundation | 400,000.00 | 6 | Environmentalism | https://hewlett.org/grants/clean-air-task-force-for-general-operating-support/ | -- | For General Operating Support. | |
Hewlett Foundation | 200,000.00 | 14 | Environmentalism | https://hewlett.org/grants/clean-air-task-force-for-the-federal-power-plant-regulation-and-policy-project/ | -- | For The Federal Power Plant Regulation And Policy Project. | |
John Merck Fund | 75,000.00 | 24 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo provide legal and technical analysis to achieve the strongest possible EPA rules governing emissions from power plants, to defend the rules from congressional attack, and to build an industry constituency in support of ongoing reductions in power plant greenhouse gas emissions. | |
Sloan Foundation | 248,832.00 | 13 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6918 | -- | Grant investigator: Steven Brick; to organize the formulation of a study group, a research framework, and a request-for-proposals to investigate the energy efficiency paradox. | |
John Merck Fund | 100,000.00 | 23 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo establish strong regulations under the Clean Air Act that reduce mercury, toxic metals, ozone smog and acid rain emissions from coal plants; and to defend EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from coal plants. | |
Sloan Foundation | 10,000.00 | 32 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6936 | -- | Grant investigator: Steven Brick; to plan a full scale study of US energy efficiency potential on the building and industrial sector. | |
John Merck Fund | 150,000.00 | 19 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To significantly reduce greenhouse gases in the near term, while decreasing harmful pollutants by requiring coal plants to meet stringent air emission performance standards and creating and funding strong federal mandates for cleaning up diesel engines. | |
John Merck Fund | 300,000.00 | 12 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To promote local, state and federal policies to clean up pollution from dirty diesel engines. | |
Hewlett Foundation | 200,000.00 | 14 | Environmentalism | https://hewlett.org/grants/clean-air-task-force-for-a-collaborative-project-with-the-giss-for-efforts-to-limit-global-climate-change/ | -- | For A Collaborative Project With The GISS For Efforts To Limit Global Climate Change. | |
John Merck Fund | 325,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To work in partnership with state organizations to achieve a 70 percent reduction in US mobile diesel particulate emissions by 2020. | |
John Merck Fund | 47,500.00 | 28 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To study and quantify the health benefits of slowing global warming by reducing air pollution. | |
John Merck Fund | 325,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Working with partner organizations in twelve states, to spur a 70 percent reduction in US mobile diesel emissions by 2020. | |
John Merck Fund | 350,000.00 | 8 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To work with partner organizations in up to fourteen states to achieve a 75 percent reduction in US mobile diesel particulate emissions by 2020. | |
Hewlett Foundation | 25,000.00 | 30 | Environmentalism | https://hewlett.org/grants/clean-air-task-force-for-completion-of-a-project-in-bangkok-thailand-to-develop-a-model-for-cleaning-up-diesel-air-pollution-throughout-the-developing-world/ | -- | For Completion Of A Project In Bangkok, Thailand To Develop A Model For Cleaning Up Diesel Air Pollution Throughout The Developing World. | |
John Merck Fund | 350,000.00 | 8 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To work with state partner groups in six to twelve states over the next year to advance diesel engine cleanup in the United States through a number of strategies at the local, state, and national level. | |
John Merck Fund | 175,000.00 | 18 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reduce urban and regional air pollution and global warming emissions from America’s diesel engine fleet by establishing model policies and programs in at least six states. | |
John Merck Fund | 125,000.00 | 22 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | In conjunction with the American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago and the Ohio Environmental Council, to begin reducing harmful air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s heavy duty engines by establishing model policies in three to four states, voluntary agreements with manufacturers and owners of heavy engine fleets, and the tightening of emissions requirement through federal rulemaking. | |
John Merck Fund | 75,000.00 | 24 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reform state and federal policies in order to reduce maximum emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, toxic substances and greenhouse gases from the nation’s electric power plants. | |
John Merck Fund | 200,000.00 | 14 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reduce emissions of smog, soot, haze, acid rain, toxics and greenhouse gases from the nation’s mobile engines by reforming state and federal policies and, where possible, achieving voluntary commitments to emissions reductions from mobile equipment manufacturers. | |
John Merck Fund | 150,000.00 | 19 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To clean up or close the nation’s oldest, most polluting power plants by ending their exemptions to Clean Air Act regulations that restrict emissions from newer facilities. In addition to working at the federal level, the Clean Air Task Force provides technical, legal, organizing and communications support to state groups and regional coalitions working to end power plant pollution. | |
John Merck Fund | 150,000.00 | 19 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To strengthen the science, policy and activist connections between old, polluting power plants and toxic emissions, including dioxin and mercury; and to involve the medical and health care professions in the fight to reduce air pollution from power plants. | |
John Merck Fund | 50,000.00 | 26 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To educate the public about the damage that air pollution from power plants causes to ecosystems and wildlife, by involving the scientific community. | |
John Merck Fund | 12,500.00 | 31 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To conduct litigation under provisions of the Clean Air Act in order to accelerate reductions of emissions from power plants. | |
John Merck Fund | 50,000.00 | 26 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To conduct two advocacy training and strategy sessions on mercury air emissions and energy. |