Legal Priorities Project donations received

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Basic donee information

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Donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 7 137,500 256,136 450 450 75,000 135,000 135,000 137,500 265,000 265,000 480,000 700,000 700,000
Longtermism 2 450 132,725 450 450 450 450 450 450 265,000 265,000 265,000 265,000 265,000
AI safety 2 75,000 105,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000
Epistemic institutions 1 137,500 137,500 137,500 137,500 137,500 137,500 137,500 137,500 137,500 137,500 137,500 137,500 137,500
2 480,000 590,000 480,000 480,000 480,000 480,000 480,000 480,000 700,000 700,000 700,000 700,000 700,000

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Legal Priorities Project

Donor Total 2023 2022 2021
FTX Future Fund (filter this donee) 1,317,500.00 0.00 1,317,500.00 0.00
Jaan Tallinn (filter this donee) 265,000.00 0.00 0.00 265,000.00
Effective Altruism Funds: Long-Term Future Fund (filter this donee) 135,000.00 0.00 0.00 135,000.00
Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) 75,000.00 75,000.00 0.00 0.00
Jacob Steinhardt (filter this donee) 450.00 0.00 0.00 450.00
Total 1,792,950.00 75,000.00 1,317,500.00 400,450.00

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (7 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 7)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
Open Philanthropy75,000.0062023-08AI safety/governancehttps://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/legal-priorities-project-law-ai-summer-research-fellowship/-- Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant "to support [grantee's] Summer Research Fellowship in Law & AI. Participants will work with researchers at LPP on projects at the intersection of law and risks from advanced AI."
FTX Future Fund700,000.0012022-06--https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=ad-hoc-- Donation process: This grant is part of staff-led grantmaking by FTX Future Fund. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/paMYXYFYbbjpdjgbt/future-fund-june-2022-update#Staff_led_grantmaking_in_more_detail (GW, IR) says: "Unlike the open call and regranting, these grants and investments are not a test of a particular potentially highly scalable funding model. These are projects we funded because we became aware of them and thought they were good ideas."

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support one year of operating expenses and salaries at the Legal Priorities Project, a longtermist legal research and field-building organization."

Other notes: This is the second grant from FTX Future Fund to Legal Priorities Project; the preceding grant of $480,000 was in April 2022. Intended funding timeframe in months: 12.
FTX Future Fund137,500.0042022-05Epistemic institutionshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-regrants/-- Donation process: The grant is made as part of the Future Fund's regranting program. See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/paMYXYFYbbjpdjgbt/future-fund-june-2022-update#Regranting_program_in_more_detail (GW, IR) for more detail on the regranting program.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support an essay contest on “Accounting for Existential Risks in US Cost-Benefit Analysis,” with the aim of contributing to the revision of OMB Circular-A4, a document which guides US government cost-benefit analysis. The Legal Priorities Project is administering the contest."

Other notes: The Future Fund makes two other grants to support Legal Priorities Project around the same time, but these grants are staff-led.
FTX Future Fund480,000.0022022-04--https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=ad-hoc-- Donation process: This grant is part of staff-led grantmaking by FTX Future Fund. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/paMYXYFYbbjpdjgbt/future-fund-june-2022-update#Staff_led_grantmaking_in_more_detail (GW, IR) says: "Unlike the open call and regranting, these grants and investments are not a test of a particular potentially highly scalable funding model. These are projects we funded because we became aware of them and thought they were good ideas."

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support the Legal Priorities Project’s ongoing research and outreach activities. This will allow LPP to pay two new hires and to put on a summer institute for non-US law students in Oxford."

Donor retrospective of the donation: FTX Future Fund would make a further grant of $700,000 in June 2022, about two months later, indicating continued satisfaction with the grantee.
Jacob Steinhardt450.0072021-06-23Longtermismhttps://bounded-regret.ghost.io/donations-19-20/-- Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support

Donor reason for selecting the donee: The donation post says: "I also donated a small amount to the Legal Priorities Project. They are a relatively new organization that in part seeks to improve law to take future generations into account; they also tackle several other questions in legal research that they view as high-impact. They were one of several small organizations that I investigated this year, and seemed the most impressive to me. Although they do not yet have a clear track record of success, I don't view this as unusual for an organization at their age, and I think supporting good organizations early on before they are clearly successful is often the highest-impact (assuming you can pick the organizations well, which can be difficult)."

Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): The donation post suggests that the "small" amount of the donation reflects the organization's small size and the value of even a small amount of funding in helping it grow. It also includes context on the total amount ($45,000): "Each year I aim to donate around 10% of my income. [...] The impact of COVID-19 on poor countries made me better appreciate how much better I have it than most of the world, so I tried to donate closer to 20% of my 2020 income, and that will be my goal moving forward as well. Between 2019 and 2020, this came out to $45,000 in total."
Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 1.00%

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): The donation post says: "Each year I aim to donate around 10% of my income. In 2019, I fell behind on this, probably due to the chaos of COVID-19 (but really this was just an embarassing logistical failure on my part). I've recently, finally, finished processing donations for 2019 and 2020."

Donor thoughts on making further donations to the donee: The donation post says: "in the future I would probably just allocate [all my long-term future donations] to LTFF and trust their decision-making." This, along with the fact that the donation to the Legal Priorities Project made sense specifically in the context of its early stage, suggests that the donor is unlikely to make further donations to the Legal Priorities Project.
Effective Altruism Funds: Long-Term Future Fund135,000.0052021-04-01AI safety/governancehttps://funds.effectivealtruism.org/payouts/may-2021-long-term-future-fund-grantsDaniel Eth Asya Bergal Adam Gleave Oliver Habryka Evan Hubinger Ozzie Gooen Donation process: Grant selected from a pool of applicants. https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/payouts/may-2021-long-term-future-fund-grants#legal-priorities-project--135000 says: "The Legal Priorities Project (LPP) applied for funding to hire Suzanne Van Arsdale and Renan Araújo to conduct academic legal research, and Alfredo Parra to perform operations work. All have previously been involved with the LPP, and Suzanne and Renan contributed to the LPP’s research agenda."

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/payouts/may-2021-long-term-future-fund-grants#legal-priorities-project--135000 says: "Hiring staff to carry out longtermist academic legal research and increase the operational capacity of the organization. The Legal Priorities Project (LPP) applied for funding to hire Suzanne Van Arsdale and Renan Araújo to conduct academic legal research, and Alfredo Parra to perform operations work. All have previously been involved with the LPP, and Suzanne and Renan contributed to the LPP’s research agenda."

Donor reason for selecting the donee: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/payouts/may-2021-long-term-future-fund-grants#legal-priorities-project--135000 (written by Daniel Eth) says: "I’m excited about this grant for reasons related to LPP as an organization, the specific hires they would use the grant for, and the proposed work of the new hires." It goes into considerable further detail regarding the reasons.

Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): Amount likely determined based on the amount needed for the intended uses of the grant funds.
Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 8.18%
Jaan Tallinn265,000.0032021-04Longtermismhttps://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendationsSurvival 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.

Other notes: Although Jed McCaleb also participates in this grant round as a funder, he does not make any grants to this grantee. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 2.79%.