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.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Facebook username | GreenMarine |
| Twitter username | metal_hart |
| LessWrong username | BrandonReinhart |
| Data entry method on Donations List Website | Manual (no scripts used) |
| 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 | 5 | 10,000 | 11,010 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 20,050 | 20,050 |
| 1 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | |
| AI safety | 4 | 10,000 | 12,513 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 20,050 | 20,050 | 20,050 |
If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.
| Cause area | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2017 | 2016 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI safety (filter this donor) | 4 | 1 | 50,050.00 | 25,050.00 | 15,000.00 | 10,000.00 |
| (filter this donor) | 1 | 1 | 5,000.00 | 5,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 5 | 2 | 55,050.00 | 30,050.00 | 15,000.00 | 10,000.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
If you hover over a cell for a given subcause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.
| Subcause area | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2017 | 2016 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI safety | 4 | 1 | 50,050.00 | 25,050.00 | 15,000.00 | 10,000.00 |
| Classified total | 4 | 1 | 50,050.00 | 25,050.00 | 15,000.00 | 10,000.00 |
| Unclassified total | 1 | 1 | 5,000.00 | 5,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 5 | 2 | 55,050.00 | 30,050.00 | 15,000.00 | 10,000.00 |
Graph of spending by subcause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by subcause area and year (cumulative)
| Donee | Cause area | Metadata | Total | 2017 | 2016 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute (filter this donor) | AI safety | FB Tw WP Site CN GS TW | 50,050.00 | 25,050.00 | 15,000.00 | 10,000.00 |
| Donor lottery (filter this donor) | 5,000.00 | 5,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Total | -- | -- | 55,050.00 | 30,050.00 | 15,000.00 | 10,000.00 |
Graph of spending by donee and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by donee and year (cumulative)
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| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donor lotteries: demonstration and FAQ (GW, IR) | 2016-12-07 | Carl Shulman | Effective Altruism Forum | Timothy Telleen-Lawton Gregory Lewis Ajeya Cotra Rohin Shah Helen Toner Nicole Ross Howie Lempel Rebecca Raible Pablo Stafforini Aaron Gertler Brayden McLean Benjamin Hoffman Catherine Olsson Eric Herboso Ian David Moss Glenn Willen Jacob Steinhardt Brandon Reinhart | Donor lottery | Donee donation case | Carl Shulman announces a donor lottery coordinated/sponsored by Paul Christiano, and provides a FAQ discussing questions people might have for participating in the lottery | ||
| SIAI - An Examination (GW, IR) | 2011-05-02 | Brandon Reinhart | LessWrong | Brandon Reinhart | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Evaluator review of donee | AI safety | Post discussing initial investigation into the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), the former name of Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), with the intent of deciding whether to donate. Final takeaway is that it was a worthy donation target, though no specific donation is announced in the post. See http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/5fo/siai_fundraising/ for an earlier draft of the post (along with a number of comments that were incorporated into the official version). |
Graph of top 10 donees (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
| Donee | Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 5) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 5,000.00 | 4 | AI safety | https://web.archive.org/web/20170627074344/https://intelligence.org/topcontributors/ | -- | ||
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 20,050.00 | 1 | AI safety | https://web.archive.org/web/20170204024838/https://intelligence.org/topdonors/ | -- | ||
| Donor lottery | 5,000.00 | 4 | -- | http://effective-altruism.com/ea/14d/donor_lotteries_a_stepbystep_guide_for_mall/ | -- | ||
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 15,000.00 | 2 | AI safety | https://web.archive.org/web/20160717181643/https://intelligence.org/donortools/topdonors.php | -- | ||
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 10,000.00 | 3 | AI safety | https://web.archive.org/web/20120918094656/http://singularity.org:80/topdonors/ | -- | See 2011 LessWrong post announcing reasoning for first MIRI donation: http://lesswrong.com/lw/5il/siai_an_examination/. |
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