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Table of contents

• Basic donee information
• Donee donation statistics
• Donee donation amounts by donor and year
• Donee document list
• Donee donation list

Basic donee information

This entity is also a donor.

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	8	10,000	18,144	0	0	0	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,056	15,000	20,000	80,100	80,100
	8	10,000	18,144	0	0	0	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,056	15,000	20,000	80,100	80,100

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee EA Giving Group

Donor	Total	2016
Jeff Kaufman and Julia Wise (filter this donee)	80,100.00	80,100.00
Patrick Brinich-Langlois (filter this donee)	45,055.55	45,055.55
Ben Kuhn (filter this donee)	20,000.00	20,000.00
Nick Beckstead (filter this donee)	0.00	0.00
Total	145,155.55	145,155.55

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (4 documents)

Title (URL linked)	Publication date	Author	Publisher	Affected donors	Affected donees	Affected influencers	Document scope	Cause area	Notes
Where, why and how I donated in 2017	2018-02-01	Ben Kuhn		Ben Kuhn Open Philanthropy Effective Altruism Funds Effective Altruism Grants	GiveWell GiveWell top charities EA Giving Group Effective Altruism Funds		Periodic donation list documentation	Global health and development	Kuhn describes his decision to allocate his donation amount ($60,000, calculated as 50% of his income for the year) between GiveWell, GiveWell top charities, and his own donor-advised fund managed by Fidelity. Kuhn also discusses the Open Philanthropy Project, EA Funds, and EA Grants, and the EA Giving Group he donated to the previous year
Staff Members’ Personal Donations for Giving Season 2017	2017-12-18	Holden Karnofsky	Open Philanthropy	Holden Karnofsky Alexander Berger Nick Beckstead Helen Toner Claire Zabel Lewis Bollard Ajeya Cotra Morgan Davis Michael Levine	GiveWell top charities GiveWell GiveDirectly EA Giving Group Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative Effective Altruism Funds Sentience Institute Encompass The Humane League The Good Food Institute Mercy For Animals Compassion in World Farming USA Animal Equality Donor lottery Against Malaria Foundation GiveDirectly		Periodic donation list documentation		Open Philanthropy Project staff members describe where they are donating this year, and the considerations that went into the donation decision. By policy, amounts are not disclosed. This is the first standalone blog post of this sort by the Open Philanthropy Project; in previous years, the corresponding donations were documented in the GiveWell staff members donation post.
Where I gave and why in 2016	2017-01-06	Ben Kuhn	Effective Altruism Forum	Ben Kuhn	EA Giving Group GiveWell GiveDirectly		Periodic donation list documentation	Global health and development	Originally posted at http://www.benkuhn.net/giving-2016 and cross-posted to Effective Altruism Forum due to evidence that people like donation write-ups
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

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (8 donations)

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 8)	Donation date	Cause area	URL	Influencer	Notes
Nick Beckstead	--	--	2017-12-18	--	https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/staff-members-personal-donations-giving-season-2017#Nick	--	Donee is a fund jointly controlled by Beckstead and another individual who has supplied the majority of the funds for it. Beckstead expects to use the funds in the EA Giving Group to be used for similar purposes as the two Effective Altruism Funds funds he manages (the EA Community Fund and the Long Term Future Fund). His thinking is broadly similar to last year, except some changes in thinking to room for more funding, that he describes more of in a separate post. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 100.00%.
Ben Kuhn	20,000.00	2	2016-12-31	--	https://www.benkuhn.net/ea/	Nick Beckstead	See https://www.benkuhn.net/giving-2016 for more context. Employer match: Wave matched 10,000.00.
Patrick Brinich-Langlois	10,055.55	4	2016-12-30	--	https://www.patbl.com/misc/other/donations/	--	Chose amount to reach donation goal total of 55555.55.
Jeff Kaufman and Julia Wise	80,100.00	1	2016-12-24	--	https://www.jefftk.com/donations	--	See http://www.givinggladly.com/2016/12/two-standard-donations-and-one-new-one.html for more on the thinking and context.
Nick Beckstead	--	--	2016-12-09	--	https://blog.givewell.org/2016/12/09/staff-members-personal-donations-giving-season-2016/	--	Donee is a fund jointly controlled by Beckstead and another individual who has supplied the majority of the funds for it. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 100.00%.
Patrick Brinich-Langlois	15,000.00	3	2016-11-05	--	https://www.patbl.com/misc/other/donations/	--
Patrick Brinich-Langlois	10,000.00	5	2016-07-04	--	https://www.patbl.com/misc/other/donations/	--
Patrick Brinich-Langlois	10,000.00	5	2016-04-22	--	https://www.patbl.com/misc/other/donations/	--