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 2026. 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 | |
| Facebook page | givingwhatwecan |
| Website | http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ |
| Twitter username | GivingWhatWeCan |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving_What_We_Can |
| Org Watch page | https://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Giving+What+We+Can |
| 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 | 3 | 4,200 | 235,380 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 |
| FIXME | 1 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 | 1,939 |
| 1 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 | |
| Effective altruism | 1 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 |
| Donor | Total | 2022 | 2015 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTX Future Fund (filter this donee) | 700,000.00 | 700,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Jeff Kaufman and Julia Wise (filter this donee) | 4,200.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4,200.00 |
| Michael Dello-Iacovo (filter this donee) | 1,938.74 | 0.00 | 1,938.74 | 0.00 |
| Total | 706,138.74 | 700,000.00 | 1,938.74 | 4,200.00 |
| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giving What We Can & EA Funds now operate independently of CEA (GW, IR) | 2020-12-21 | Max Dalton Jonas Vollmer Luke Freemaan | Effective Altruism Forum | Effective Altruism Funds: Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund Effective Altruism Funds: Long-Term Future Fund Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund Effective Altruism Funds: Global Health and Development Fund Effective Altruism Grants | Giving What We Can Effective Altruism Funds: Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund Effective Altruism Funds: Long-Term Future Fund Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund Effective Altruism Funds: Global Health and Development Fund | Giving What We Can | Status change | Animal welfare|Global health and development|AI safety|Global catastrophic risks|Effective altruism|Longtermism | This cross-post of https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/blog/giving-what-we-can-and-ea-funds-now-operate-independently-of-cea/ announces that Giving What We Can (GWWC), operated by Luke Freeman, and the Effective Altruism Funds (EA Funds), operated by Jonas Vollmer, are now operated independent of the Centre for Effective Altruism. Also, Effective Altruism Grants (EA Grants) is now fully closed. The plan to close it had been announced in April 2020 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SX6vKhRQsFj8AjYrM/brief-update-on-ea-grants (GW, IR) but some existing grant commitments needed to be honored before fully closing the program out. The post includes growth, retention, and content plans for GWWC, and donor satisfaction, donation, and grantmaking data for EA Funds. |
| Should we make a grant to a meta-charity? | 2017-03-11 | Daniel May | Oxford Prioritisation Project | Oxford Prioritisation Project | Giving What We Can 80,000 Hours Raising for Effective Giving | Review of current state of cause area | Effective altruism/movement growth/fundraising | The summary says: "I introduce the concept of meta-charity, discuss some considerations for OxPrio, and look into how meta-charities evaluate their impact, and the reliability of these figures for our purposes (finding the most cost-effective organisation to donate £10,000 today). I then look into the room for more funding for a few meta-charities, and finally conclude that these are worth seriously pursuing further." See http://effective-altruism.com/ea/189/daniel_may_should_we_make_a_grant_to_a/ for a cross-post that has comments | |
| Where should you donate to have the most impact during giving season 2015? | 2015-12-24 | Robert Wiblin | 80,000 Hours | Against Malaria Foundation Giving What We Can GiveWell AidGrade Effective Altruism Outreach Animal Charity Evaluators Machine Intelligence Research Institute Raising for Effective Giving Center for Applied Rationality Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Ploughshares Fund Future of Humanity Institute Future of Life Institute Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Charity Science Deworm the World Initiative Schistosomiasis Control Initiative GiveDirectly | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and development|Effective altruism/movement growth|Epistemic institutions|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness|AI risk|Global catastrophic risks | Robert Wiblin draws on GiveWell recommendations, Animal Charity Evaluators recommendations, Open Philanthropy Project writeups, staff donation writeups and suggestions, as well as other sources (including personal knowledge and intuitions) to come up with a list of places to donate | ||
| Giving What We Can’s Recommendations for Giving Season 2015 | 2015-12-16 | Hauke Hillebrandt | Giving What We Can | Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative Project Healthy Children | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health | Same charities as for 2014 (i.e., no change to list). Noted that Project Healthy Children is a good option for those concerned about crowding out by GiveWell-moved money (since GiveWell had not recommended it). Also, noted GiveDirectly as a fallback option for people concerned about scalability | ||
| My Cause Selection: Michael Dickens | 2015-09-15 | Michael Dickens | Effective Altruism Forum | Michael Dickens | Machine Intelligence Research Institute Future of Humanity Institute Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Future of Life Institute Open Philanthropy Animal Charity Evaluators Animal Ethics Foundational Research Institute Giving What We Can Charity Science Raising for Effective Giving | Single donation documentation | Animal welfare,AI risk,Effective altruism | Explanation by Dickens of giving choice for 2015. After some consideration, narrows choice to three orgs: MIRI, ACE, and REG. Finally chooses REG due to weighted donation multiplier | |
| Our recommended charities for the year | 2014-12-05 | Michelle Hutchinson | Giving What We Can | Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative Project Healthy Children | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health | Same charity list as for 2013 |
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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| FTX Future Fund | 700,000.00 | 1 | Effective altruism/effective giving | https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call | -- | Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21. Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Intended use of funds: Grant to "support Giving What We Can’s mission to create a world in which giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm." Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made close to the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21). |
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| Michael Dello-Iacovo | 1,938.74 | 3 | FIXME | http://www.michaeldello.com/donations-log/ | -- | Currency info: donation given as 2,500.00 AUD (conversion done on 2015-06-15 via Fixer.io); affected regions: FIXME; affected countries: FIXME. | |
| Jeff Kaufman and Julia Wise | 4,200.00 | 2 | -- | https://www.jefftk.com/donations | -- |