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 2024. 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 |
| 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 | 1 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 |
| Climate change | 1 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 | 76,234 |
| Donor | Total | 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) | 76,234.00 | 76,234.00 |
| Total | 76,234.00 | 76,234.00 |
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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 1) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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| Open Philanthropy | 76,234.00 | 1 | Climate change/geoengineering/solar radiation management | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/american-university-forum-climate-engineering-assessment | -- | Donation process: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/american-university-forum-climate-engineering-assessment#Our_process says: "We first had contact with FCEA in mid-2015, while working on our shallow investigation of SRMGI. Dr. Nicholson approached us in early 2016 to ask us to consider funding this convening." https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/FCEA/Open_Philanthropy_LOI.pdf has the letter of inquiry, though that letter is about the first convening in March 2016, whereas the eventual funding is for the third convening in early 2017. Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses Intended use of funds: The grant page says: "This grant is intended to fund a third meeting, which FCEA plans to hold in early 2017." https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/american-university-forum-climate-engineering-assessment#Proposed_activities says: "FCEA plans for its 2017 working group meeting to focus on discovering potential lessons from the governance of other emerging technologies that could be applied to climate engineering. Dr. Simon Nicholson (FCEA’s Co-Executive Director) told us that the main fields that FCEA would like to have represented at the conference are biotechnology, artificial intelligence, nuclear weapons, and nanotechnology." The budget https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/FCEA/Open_Philanthropy_Budget_FINAL_redacted.xlsx provides a spending breakdown for the second convening in September 2016, even though the grant is for the third convening in early 2017. Donor reason for selecting the donee: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/american-university-forum-climate-engineering-assessment#Goals_for_the_grant says: "One role that we believe philanthropy is particularly well-suited to play is helping to position groups and individuals to examine problems and discuss potential solutions before those problems become urgent. We hope that this FCEA convening will serve as part of a gradual process by which discussing and considering climate engineering becomes more accepted, making it more likely that the global community will have an in-depth understanding of technological options and risks in the event that climate engineering is seriously considered as an approach to reducing harms from climate change at some point in the future. In concrete terms, we hope to support a well-run conference on the topic of governance of emerging technologies. We hope that FCEA will share any ideas or conclusions that the conference produces in some form." Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): The budget https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/FCEA/Open_Philanthropy_Budget_FINAL_redacted.xlsx provides a breakdown of expected spending for the second convening in September 2016, even though the grant is for the third convening in early 2017. The implicit assumption sees to be that the expected spending will be roughly similar. Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/american-university-forum-climate-engineering-assessment#Our_process suggests that the timing is determined by the timing of Open Philanthropy being reached out to for funding the conference: "Dr. Nicholson approached us in early 2016 to ask us to consider funding this convening." https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/FCEA/Open_Philanthropy_LOI.pdf has the letter of inquiry. Intended funding timeframe in months: 1 Donor thoughts on making further donations to the donee: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/american-university-forum-climate-engineering-assessment#Follow-up_expectations says: "We expect to have a conversation with FCEA staff after the 2017 conference, with public notes if the conversation warrants it. We also plan to attempt a more holistic and detailed evaluation of the grant’s performance (based in part on our own impressions of the conference, if we are able to attend)." Donor retrospective of the donation: Notes from a followup conversation https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Conversations/Simon_Nicholson_03-10-17_(public).pdf (2017-03-10) are available. Other notes: Grant made via American University. https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/american-university-forum-climate-engineering-assessment#Risks_and_reservations lists risks and reservations, including technological lock-in into geoengineering even if it may be harmful, and distraction from other climate change mitigation efforts. Announced: 2016-05-27. |