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 2025. 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 Sinergia Animal 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 |
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| Overall | 6 | 85,000 | 231,267 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 85,000 | 85,000 | 187,600 | 245,000 | 245,000 | 800,000 | 800,000 |
| Animal welfare | 6 | 85,000 | 231,267 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 85,000 | 85,000 | 187,600 | 245,000 | 245,000 | 800,000 | 800,000 |
| Donor | Total | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
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| Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) | 1,232,600.00 | 800,000.00 | 432,600.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund (filter this donee) | 155,000.00 | 0.00 | 85,000.00 | 70,000.00 |
| Total | 1,387,600.00 | 800,000.00 | 517,600.00 | 70,000.00 |
| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
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| Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff - 2019 | 2019-12-18 | Holden Karnofsky | Open Philanthropy | Chloe Cockburn Jesse Rothman Michelle Crentsil Amanda Hungerfold Lewis Bollard Persis Eskander Alexander Berger Chris Somerville Heather Youngs Claire Zabel | National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls Life Comes From It Worth Rises Wild Animal Initiative Sinergia Animal Center for Global Development International Refugee Assistance Project California YIMBY Engineers Without Borders 80,000 Hours Centre for Effective Altruism Future of Humanity Institute Global Priorities Institute Machine Intelligence Research Institute Ought | Donation suggestion list | Criminal justice reform|Animal welfare|Global health and development|Migration policy|Effective altruism|AI safety | Continuing an annual tradition started in 2015, Open Philanthropy Project staff share suggestions for places that people interested in specific cause areas may consider donating. The sections are roughly based on the focus areas used by Open Phil internally, with the contributors to each section being the Open Phil staff who work in that focus area. Each recommendation includes a "Why we recommend it" or "Why we suggest it" section, and with the exception of the criminal justice reform recommendations, each recommendation includes a "Why we haven't fully funded it" section. Section 5, Assorted recomendations by Claire Zabel, includes a list of "Organizations supported by our Committed for Effective Altruism Support" which includes a list of organizations that are wiithin the purview of the Committee for Effective Altruism Support. The section is approved by the committee and represents their views. | |
| Where ACE Staff Are Giving In 2018 and Why | 2018-12-21 | Erika Alonso | Animal Charity Evaluators | Sofia Davis-Fogel Toni Adleberg Erika Alonso Gina Stuessy Kathryn Asher Jamie Spurgeon Trent Grassian Melissa Guzikowski | Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries Otwarte Klatki Animal Equality Encompass Sinergia Animal Mercy For Animals Compassion in World Farming USA The Humane League L214 International Rescue Committee New York Public Library Give Power Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund The Good Food Institute Effective Animal Advocacy Fund StrongMinds Global Catastrophic Risk Institute New Harvest We Animals Against Malaria Foundation GiveWell top charities Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Beckley Foundation Christopher Sebastian Animal Aid GiveDirectly | Periodic donation list documentation | Animal welfare|Global catastrophic risks|Global health and development | Continuing an annual tradition started in 2016, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) staff describe where they donated or plan to donate in 2018. Unlike 2017, there is no mention of the Effective Altruism Funds, with most funds-style donations going to the ACE-run Recommended Charity Fund and Effective Animal Advocacy Fund. Donation amounts are not disclosed, likely by policy | |
| Announcing Our 2018 Charity Recommendations | 2018-11-26 | Toni Adleberg | Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal Equality The Good Food Institute The Humane League Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries ProVeg Sinergia Animal Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira Otwarte Klatki Compassion in World Farming The Nonhuman Rights Project L214 Faunalytics Cellular Agriculture Society The Humane Society of the United States The Save Movement Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Animal welfare | The blog post, published a day before Giving Tuesday, lists the top and standout charities, as well as lists updated reviews of other charities that did not make it to the top or standout charity list. It ends by plugging the ACE Recommended Charity Fund, which disburses funds twice a year. There is an accompanying blog post https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/comparison-of-our-2018-recommended-charities/ that links to a comparison chart and provides more explanation of how to compare top charities. Also accompanying it is the blog post https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/the-process-leading-to-our-2018-recommendations/ that provides more insight into the process leading up to ther choice of recommendations |
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 | 800,000.00 | 1 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free/corporate campaign | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/sinergia-animal-corporate-cage-free-campaigns | Amanda Hungerford | Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses Intended use of funds: Grant "to support corporate cage-free campaigns and investigations across Latin America. Sinergia Animal intends to use this funding to secure cage-free corporate commitments and carry out investigations in Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, which have a combined total of approximately 184 million layer hens." Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant page hints at the scale of factory farming in the target countries as being a factor: "Sinergia Animal intends to use this funding to secure cage-free corporate commitments and carry out investigations in Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, which have a combined total of approximately 184 million layer hens." Other notes: Intended funding timeframe in months: 24; affected countries: Argentina|Chile|Colombia|Ecuador|Peru. |
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| Open Philanthropy | 187,600.00 | 3 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free/corporate campaign | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/sinergia-animal-southeast-asia-animal-welfare | Amanda Hungerford | Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses Intended use of funds: Grant "to support farm animal investigations and corporate campaigns in Southeast Asia. Sinergia Animal specifically plans to use these funds to launch corporate cage-free egg campaigns, as the region has a large number of farmed birds." Other notes: Intended funding timeframe in months: 24. |
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| Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund | 85,000.00 | 4 | Animal welfare/factory farming | https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare/payouts/7ysr1iPZTjf4fBAPfP3xuB | Lewis Bollard Natalie Cargill Toni Adleberg Jamie Spurgeon | Sinergia Animal is a new organization founded in Brazil in October 2017 and operating in four Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina). They plan to expand their work into Asia in 2019. The group works exclusively to reduce farmed animal suffering and to decrease the consumption of animal products by learning from the successes of corporate campaigns in the US. By applying these strategies in countries with relatively young animal advocacy movements, the marginal impact of such additional work may be relatively high. Sinergia Animal has a significant reported funding gap for 2019 and this grant will help them to expand their team and to start their work in Asia. Affected countries: Brazil|Chile|Colombia|Argentina; Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 19.10%. | |
| Open Philanthropy | 245,000.00 | 2 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free/corporate campaign | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/sinergia-animal-general-support | Lewis Bollard | Donation process: Discretionary grant Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Intended use of funds: The grant page says the grant is "to pursue corporate campaigns across Latin America." Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant page says: "Approximately 500 million layer hens and 2 billion broiler chickens are alive in Latin America at any time, and corporate campaigners have had some success in Latin America, securing numerous cage-free commitments in the last two years. We believe Sinergia Animal played a significant role in some of those campaigns, including some of the first wins in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia." Donor retrospective of the donation: The followup grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/sinergia-animal-corporate-cage-free-campaigns suggests continued satisfaction with the grantee. Other notes: Affected countries: Argentina|Chile|Colombia. |
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| Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund | 50,000.00 | 5 | Animal welfare/factory farming | https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare/payouts/2ENqwtVsfWAw22eogwS4cG | Lewis Bollard | Small budget ($100K/year) outside of funding from the Open Wing Alliance and this grant. Not prioritizing Open Phil funding due to the small size of the grant. Affected countries: Argentina|Brazil|Chile|Colombia; Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 6.67%. | |
| Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund | 20,000.00 | 6 | Animal welfare/factory farming | https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare/payouts/3tRg1Hfwu46EQ8mskEGUOE | Lewis Bollard | The grantee focuses on farm animal welfare through hard-hitting campaigns in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia. These countries are relatively neglected compared to Mexico and Brazil, but still have a huge number of farm animals. The new group is led by Carolina Macedo Galvani, whose work at the Fórum Nacional impressed Bollard, and in its first few months it helped secure a pledge from a Chilean restaurant company with 320 locations to eliminate cages and crates from its supply chain. Since it is outside the United States and relatively new, it would have trouble raising a lot of funds initially, so Bollard thinks this grant would be valuable to it. Affected countries: Chile|Argentina|Colombia; Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 13.33%. |