Institute for Philosophical Research donations received

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Basic donee information

We do not have any donee information for the donee Institute for Philosophical Research in our system.

Donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 6 25,000 42,530 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 50,000 50,000 105,178 105,178
FIXME 4 25,000 45,045 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 105,178 105,178 105,178
Existential risks 1 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000
AI safety 1 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Institute for Philosophical Research

Donor Total 2018 2017 1990 1987 1986 1979
MacArthur Foundation (filter this donee) 180,178.00 0.00 0.00 25,000.00 25,000.00 25,000.00 105,178.00
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (filter this donee) 75,000.00 50,000.00 25,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 255,178.00 50,000.00 25,000.00 25,000.00 25,000.00 25,000.00 105,178.00

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (1 documents)

Title (URL linked)Publication dateAuthorPublisherAffected donorsAffected doneesAffected influencersDocument scopeCause areaNotes
Seeking Testimonials - IPR, Leverage, and Paradigm2018-11-15Andrew Critch Berkeley Existential Risk InitiativeBerkeley Existential Risk Initiative Leverage Research Institute for Philosophical Research Paradigm Academy Request for reviews of doneeEpistemic institutionsIn the blog post, Andrew Critch of BERI talks about plans to make grants to Leverage Research and the Institute for Philosophical Research (IPR). Critch says that IPR, Leverage, and Paradigm Academy are three related organizations that BERI internally refers to as ILP. In light of community skepticism about ILP, Critch announces that BERI is inviting feedback through a feedback form on these organizations till December 20. He also explains what sort of feedback will be taken more seriously by BERI. The post was also announced on the Effective Altruism Forum at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fvvRZMJJ7g4gzXjSH/seeking-information-on-three-potential-grantee-organizations (GW, IR) on 2018-12-09.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (6 donations)

Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
DonorAmount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 6)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative50,000.0022018-09-07AI safetyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20180921215949/http://existence.org/organization-grants/-- General support. Announced at http://existence.org/2018/09/18/activity-update-july-and-august-2018.html.
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative25,000.0032017-12-15Existential riskshttps://web.archive.org/web/20180731180958/http://existence.org:80/grants https://web.archive.org/web/20180921215949/http://existence.org/organization-grants/--
MacArthur Foundation25,000.0031990FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To increase the Paideia training staff. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Illinois; affected cities: Chicago.
MacArthur Foundation25,000.0031987FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support Paideia teacher conferences. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Illinois; affected cities: Chicago.
MacArthur Foundation25,000.0031986FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support Paideia teacher conferences. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Illinois; affected cities: Chicago.
MacArthur Foundation105,178.0011979FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support Project Paideia, in conjunction with a program of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Illinois; affected cities: Chicago.