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 Longevity Research Institute 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scientific research | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Donor | Total |
|---|---|
| Ozy Brennan (filter this donee) | 0.00 |
| Total | 0.00 |
| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donation Post: 2018 | 2019-01-03 | Ozy Brennan | Ozy Brennan | Longevity Research Institute Evidence Action Effective Altruism Funds | Periodic donation list documentation | Global health and development|Scientific research|Animal welfare | The blog post describes Ozy Brennan's donations for 2018, along with an explanation of the selection of each donee. The high-level explanation: "This year I am splitting my donations between the Animal Welfare Fund (animals), Evidence Action (global poverty), and the Longevity Research Institute (anti-aging). I’m taking basically the same approach with all three places I’m donating this year. I am not donating to particular programs that I think are high impact, such as malaria nets or cellular agriculture. Instead, I’m delegating my donation decisions to particular people or organizations. In two cases, I’m betting on a specific person that I have reason to believe is more informed, has better judgment, and is generally capable of making better decisions than me. In a third case, Evidence Action, I’m betting on an organization’s process and epistemics: while I know little about their current charities, I’m impressed by their transparency and commitment to admitting when things they’re trying may not work." | ||
| Evaluating Donations to Cure Aging | 2018-12-20 | Peter McCluskey | Peter McCluskey | Longevity Research Institute SENS Resarch Foundation Methuselah Mouse Prize | Review of current state of cause area | Scientific research/longevity research | The blog post gives an overview of research strategies for life extension, starting with a discussion of the SENS Research Foundation approach, that the author believes would be valuable to fund at a larger scale. However, the author then looks at smaller opportunities that are more experimental and likely to be overlooked by larger philanthropists. One of the organizations discussed extensively in the Longevity Research Institute run by Sarah Constantin |
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 1) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ozy Brennan | -- | -- | Scientific research/anti-aging | https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/donation-post-2018/ | -- | The reason for donating is described as follows: "It was founded by my friend Sarah Constantin, who is one of the smartest people I know; I have consistently been impressed by her carefulness and the breadth of her knowledge. I don’t have the understanding of medicine to know whether what they’re doing is sensible. Donating to the LRI is, fundamentally, a bet on Sarah." Ozy identifies the following characteristics for other people who may be interested in donating to LRI: "(a) Young people who want to selfishly invest in life extension research. (The research is unlikely to bear fruit in enough time to benefit older people.). (b) People who know Sarah Constantin and agree with my assessment of her character. (c) Risk-neutral effective altruists who want to support new projects". |