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 RC Forward 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 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 |
| Effective altruism | 1 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 11,000 |
| Donor | Total | 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| Effective Altruism Funds: Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (filter this donee) | 11,000.00 | 11,000.00 |
| Total | 11,000.00 | 11,000.00 |
| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where are you donating this year and why – in 2019? Open thread for discussion. (GW, IR) | 2019-12-11 | weeatquince | Effective Altruism Forum | weeatquince Michael St. Jules | Happier Lives Institute Effective Altruism Funds: Infrastructure Fund Let's Fund Rethink Priorities Against Malaria Foundation Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund Charity Entrepreneurship RC Forward Sentience Politics | Periodic donation list documentation | Global health and development|Animal welfare | In this open thread, donors describe where they plan to donate in 2019. The thread has donation descriptions by weeatquince (the post author) as well as Michael St. Jules. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effective Altruism Funds: Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund | 11,000.00 | 1 | Effective altruism/fundraising | https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/ea-community/payouts/3pxoLG7aRWtETC1lECC6LK | Luke Ding Alex Foster Denise Melchin Matt Wage | Donation process: Part of the July 2019 EA Meta Fund grants round. The grant page says: "7 of the 9 grantees in this round applied through this process." It is not clear whether RC Forward is one of the 7 that applied Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Intended use of funds: Grantee, RC Forward, is a subsidiary of Rethink Charity that specializes in helping donors in Canada make tax-deductible donations. In 2018, it moved $3.3 million to 25 effective charities with just $50,000 in operational expenses Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant page says: "RC Forward still looks to be a relatively strong donation opportunity even when applying the most pessimistic estimates. In 2018, RC Forward is expected to have moved at least $3 for every $1 spent." Also: "Even if only 2% of the total money moved through the platform last year was directly caused by RC Forward, they would beat the break-even point." Further: "Although any potential scale-up is limited to the Canadian market, the platform could process many more donations within that market without a proportional rise in costs." It also links to RC Forward's own analysis at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/n2Y7z5wvjTuNn5TYg/cost-effectiveness-of-rc-forward (GW, IR) Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): The grant page says: "This grant will fill RC Forward's immediate remaining funding gap for 2019." Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 2.36% Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round, and by RC Forward getting close to Giving Season 2019 |