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.
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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 | 6 | 100,000 | 150,083 | 500 | 500 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 |
Global health | 5 | 100,000 | 130,100 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 |
1 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 |
Donor | Total | 2020 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
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Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities (filter this donee) | 850,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 250,000.00 | 250,000.00 | 250,000.00 |
Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Aaron Gertler (filter this donee) | 500.00 | 0.00 | 500.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Total | 900,500.00 | 50,000.00 | 500.00 | 100,000.00 | 250,000.00 | 250,000.00 | 250,000.00 |
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 6) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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Open Philanthropy | 50,000.00 | 5 | Global health/nutrition/iodine | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-health-and-development/miscellaneous/iodine-global-network-general-support-december-2020 | GiveWell | Donation process: The grant is based on GiveWell's recommendation. GiveWell made the recommendations as part of its end-of-year recommendations to Open Philanthropy, along with allocations to other GiveWell top and standout charities. The total budget of $100 million is set by Open Philanthropy, but GiveWell decided to allocate only $70 million in end-of-year grantmaking and defers the remaining $30 million to early 2021. GiveWell explains the process in detail at https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities/2020/open-philanthropy-recommendation (published February 2021). Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for selecting the donee: At the time of the grant, Iodine Global Network was a GiveWell standout charity, per https://www.givewell.org/charities/other-charities/November-2020-version and https://www.givewell.org/charities/IGN-December-2014-version (December 2014 review). It therefore qualified for the $50,000 end-of-year incentive grant recommendation that all GiveWell standout charities received. Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): The amount of $50,000 is the amount of the incentive grant chosen for standout charities in 2020. https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities/2020/open-philanthropy-recommendation#Size_of_incentive_grants explains the reason for chosing the amount: "We also reduced our incentive grant recommendations for standout charities [from $100,000] to $50,000. Once a standout charity has been added to our list, we ask it to have one conversation with us each year and to review the notes we write to summarize what we learned from that conversation. We believe a smaller grant of $50,000 is appropriate for the time commitment this requires from standout charities." Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 0.07% Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Part of GiveWell's end-of-year recommendations for Open Philanthropy, so the timing is determined by the timing of end-of-year recommendations (which is usually the week after Thanksgiving in the United States). The grant is made by Open Philanthropy shortly after the recommendations. Donor retrospective of the donation: https://blog.givewell.org/2021/10/05/discontinuing-standout-charity-designation/ (November 2021) announces discontinuation of the standout charity designation, and says: "We’ve recommended that Open Philanthropy make a $100,000 exit grant to each standout charity on our list." |
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Aaron Gertler | 500.00 | 6 | Global health/nutrition/iodine | https://aarongertler.net/donations-all-years/ | -- | Timed to coincide with matching funds from Facebook's Giving Tuesday event. The match was successful, so Facebook matched the full $500. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 12.50%. | |
Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities | 100,000.00 | 4 | Global health/nutrition/iodine | http://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/iodine-global-network-general-support-december-2017 | GiveWell | Grant is the $100,000 for being a standout charity. | |
Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities | 250,000.00 | 1 | Global health/deworming | http://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/the-end-fund-deworming | GiveWell | Grant for general operating support to a standout charity focused on improving iodine content in food. Grant announced on 2016-11-28 at https://blog.givewell.org/2016/11/28/updated-top-charities-giving-season-2016/#Sec3a along with GiveWell top and standout charities list. | |
Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities | 250,000.00 | 1 | -- | http://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/iodine-global-network-general-support | GiveWell | Grant to standout charity announced on 2015-11-20 at https://blog.givewell.org/2015/11/18/our-updated-top-charities-for-giving-season-2015/#Sec4a along with grants to other GiveWell top and standout charities. | |
Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities | 250,000.00 | 1 | Global health/nutrition/iodine | http://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/ign-general-support | GiveWell | Grant to standout charity announced at https://blog.givewell.org/2014/12/01/our-updated-top-charities/ based on GiveWell charity recommendations in the same post; see also https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities/November-2014 and the review https://www.givewell.org/charities/IGN. |