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.
We do not have any donee information for the donee Generation Pledge in our system.
| 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 | 3 | 37,000 | 119,333 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 37,000 | 37,000 | 37,000 | 291,000 | 291,000 | 291,000 | 291,000 |
| Effective altruism | 3 | 37,000 | 119,333 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 37,000 | 37,000 | 37,000 | 291,000 | 291,000 | 291,000 | 291,000 |
| Donor | Total | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaan Tallinn (filter this donee) | 291,000.00 | 291,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund (filter this donee) | 37,000.00 | 0.00 | 37,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective Altruism Funds: Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (filter this donee) | 30,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 30,000.00 |
| Total | 358,000.00 | 291,000.00 | 37,000.00 | 30,000.00 |
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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 3) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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| Jaan Tallinn | 291,000.00 | 1 | Effective altruism/movement growth | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Ben Hoskin Katja Grace Oliver Habryka Adam Marblestone | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's fifth grant round and the first with a grant to this grantee. Donor retrospective of the donation: For the 2021 H2 grants, Zvi Mowshowitz's blog post about the grantmaking process, though not naming Generation Pledge, talks about an applicant doing something similar to Generation Pledge, and his concerns about the applicant: "These seemed deeply terrible. If you think the best use of funds, in a world in which we already have billions available, is to go trying to convince others to give away their money in the future, and then hoping it can be steered to the right places [...]. My expectation is that these people are seeking money and power, largely for themselves, via attempting to hijack that of others, especially for the one targeting heirs [...] it looked like there was willingness [among other recommenders] to be what I would view as the villain in the play, but that the calculations said that for our purposes this type of strategy didn’t pay even if you discount such concerns, and so the strategy was not funded, whatever anyone would have chosen to call it." Other notes: Jed McCaleb, the other funder participating in the grant round, does not make any grant to the grantee. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 3.06%. |
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| Survival and Flourishing Fund | 37,000.00 | 2 | Effective altruism/movement growth | https://jaan.online/philanthropy/donations.html | Oliver Habryka Eric Rogstad | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H2 grants https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h2-recommendationsbased on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor retrospective of the donation: A followup grant https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations in 2021 H1 from Jaan Tallinn based on SFF's recommendation suggests continued satisfaction with the grantee. Other notes: Jaan Tallinn and Jed McCaleb also participate as funders in the grant round, but make no grants to the grantee. The grant is made via the Centre for Effective Altruism. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 5.69%. |
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| Effective Altruism Funds: Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund | 30,000.00 | 3 | Effective altruism/movement growth | https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/ea-community/payouts/3pxoLG7aRWtETC1lECC6LK | Luke Ding Alex Foster Denise Melchin Matt Wage | Donation process: Part of the July 2019 EA Meta Fund grants round. The grant page says: "7 of the 9 grantees in this round applied through this process." It is not clear whether Generation Pledge is one of the 7 that applied Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Intended use of funds: The grant page says: "Generation Pledge mirrors the Founders Pledge model, but working with next gens rather than founders. The world's ultra high net worth families collectively own $31.5 trillion. Several thousand next gens will inherit this wealth. Generation Pledge aims to support those next gens to maximise their social impact." Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant page says: "[I]n the past few months they have grown their pledger community significantly. They have an expected pledge value of over $300 million, with a number of sensible discount factors applied. We think that these positive updates are enough to justify Generation Pledge being funded through to a later stage, where they will have the opportunity to prove they can turn these pledges into donations to effective charities." Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): The grant page says: "This grant will contribute towards Generation Pledge's immediate funding gap for 2019, giving them more runway to fundraise and further grow their pledger base." Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 6.44% Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round, as well as by the progress made by Generation Pledge in getting $300 million pledged Donor thoughts on making further donations to the donee: The grant page talks of a "later stage, where they will have the opportunity to prove they can turn these pledges into donations to effective charities." It is likely that Generation Pledge will be considered for further grants if it is able to turn donations to pledges |