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 |
| Affiliated organizations (current or former; restricted to potential donees or others relevant to donation decisions) | GiveWell Good Ventures |
| Best overview URL | https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants |
| Website | https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants |
| Donations URL | https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants |
| Regularity with which donor updates donations data | continuous updates |
| Regularity with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update) | continuous updates |
| Lag with which donor updates donations data | months |
| Lag with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update) | days |
| Data entry method on Donations List Website | Manual (no scripts used) |
Brief history: GiveWell Incubation Grants start off as GiveWell Experimental, with the goal of supporting the growth and discovery of future GiveWell top charities
Brief notes on broad donor philosophy and major focus areas: The focus is on charities that have a decent chance (usually, 10% or more at the time of the grant) of becoming GiveWell top charities, and also on academic research or evaluation processes that would help better evaluate or help improve current or future GiveWell top charities
Notes on grant decision logistics: Organizations may apply by contacting info@givewell.org but more details on the decision process are not publicly stated
Notes on grant publication logistics: Each grant has a separate page. The grant has four associated dates: a grant date (called donation date on the Donations List Website; this is the date the grant is made), a grant announcement date (called donation announcement date; this is the date the grant page is made public and announced on the mailing list), and dates that the grant is made public in the grants databases on the websites of Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures. The latter two dates do not concern us, since they essentially just link to the GiveWell Incubation Grants grant page. The grant page is reviewed by grantee staff prior to publication
Notes on grant financing: After GiveWell decides on a grant, the grant is recommended to Open Philanthropy, which in turn recommends to Good Ventures to fund the grant. Historically, grant requests were made directly to Good Ventures, and even now, in practice, the intermediate role of Open Philanthropy is mostly just a formality. For these reasons, the cross-posting of the grants to Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures pages is not of substantive interest to us. Even though the grants are listed in Open Philanthropy database, they are not included in Open Philanthropy self-reports of how much grant money they decided on. Occasionally, however, grants listed under GiveWell Incubation Grants are financed via Effective Altruism Funds (specifically, the Global Health and Development Fund). We list these grants only under Effective Altruism Funds and not under GiveWell Incubation Grants
Miscellaneous notes: List last checked for completeness and accuracy on 2017-12-24
| 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 | 8 | 300,000 | 1,020,889 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 184,324 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 350,000 | 368,587 | 820,000 | 5,944,203 | 5,944,203 |
| Conditional cash transfers | 7 | 300,000 | 1,116,731 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 184,324 | 184,324 | 300,000 | 368,587 | 368,587 | 820,000 | 5,944,203 | 5,944,203 |
| Unconditional cash transfers | 1 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 |
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 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conditional cash transfers (filter this donor) | 7 | 2 | 7,817,114.00 | 184,324.00 | 6,764,203.00 | 668,587.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 |
| Unconditional cash transfers (filter this donor) | 1 | 1 | 350,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 350,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 8 | 3 | 8,167,114.00 | 184,324.00 | 6,764,203.00 | 1,018,587.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 |
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 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conditional cash transfers | 5 | 2 | 7,617,114.00 | 184,324.00 | 6,764,203.00 | 668,587.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Unconditional cash transfers/mindset | 1 | 1 | 350,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 350,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Conditional cash transfers/Potential top charity | 2 | 1 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 |
| Classified total | 8 | 3 | 8,167,114.00 | 184,324.00 | 6,764,203.00 | 1,018,587.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 |
| Unclassified total | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 8 | 3 | 8,167,114.00 | 184,324.00 | 6,764,203.00 | 1,018,587.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 |
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 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Incentives (filter this donor) | 7,632,790.00 | 0.00 | 6,764,203.00 | 668,587.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 | ||
| Innovations for Poverty Action (filter this donor) | FB Tw WP Site | 350,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 350,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| IDinsight (filter this donor) | Site | 184,324.00 | 184,324.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Total | -- | -- | 8,167,114.00 | 184,324.00 | 6,764,203.00 | 1,018,587.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 |
Graph of spending by donee and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by donee and year (cumulative)
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If you hover over a cell for a given country 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.
| Country | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2019 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 3 | 2 | 6,948,527.00 | 184,324.00 | 6,764,203.00 |
| Classified total | 3 | 2 | 6,948,527.00 | 184,324.00 | 6,764,203.00 |
| Unclassified total | 5 | 2 | 1,218,587.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 8 | 3 | 8,167,114.00 | 184,324.00 | 6,764,203.00 |
Graph of spending by country and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by country and year (cumulative)
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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 8) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDinsight | 184,324.00 | 6 | Conditional cash transfers | https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/IDinsight-new-incentives-february-2019 | -- | Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses Intended use of funds: This relatively small grant is intended to cover IDinsight's staff costs from February to May 2019 for the randomized controlled trial (RCT) it is conducting on New Incentives' conditional cash transfers program. (1) IDinsight aims to have finished its midline analysis. (2) GiveWell plans to have agreed with IDinsight on key design elements for the RCT's endline survey that affect the budget. (3) GiveWell plan to finalize a budget with IDinsight for the remainder of this work that we agree achieves the right balance of a) value of information generated by the endline survey and b) cost. GiveWell expects the results of the RCT to affect whether New Incentives becomes a GiveWell top charity Donor reason for selecting the donee: GiveWell is interested in having the randomized controlled trial (RCT) from IDinsight so that it can decide whether to give New Incentives top charity status. GiveWell already financed earlier stages of this work with the August 2018 grant https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/IDinsight-embedded-givewell-team-2018#About_the_grant and earlier with the May 2017 grant https://www.givewell.org/charities/IDinsight/may-2017-grant and the October 2016 grant https://www.givewell.org/charities/IDinsight/october-2016-grant so it is a natural choice to continue funding IDinsight to continue the work Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): No reason given for the amount, but it is likely that the amount is determined based on the budget for the three months of work that the funding covers Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): The original funding for the RCT ended in January 2019, but the RCT work was not completed. This grant round was made quickly as a bridge round to prevent the work from being suddenly stopped, while details of the final future grant could be hashed out Intended funding timeframe in months: 4 Donor thoughts on making further donations to the donee: The grant writeup says: "We plan to finalize a budget with IDinsight for the remainder of this work that we agree achieves the right balance of a) value of information generated by the endline survey and b) cost." The following followup questions are listed: (1) What endline survey design decisions (e.g. sample size) does IDinsight believe are justified based on the value of information they will generate for GiveWell's decision about whether New Incentives should be a top charity? (2) How much additional funding will IDinsight need to complete the project, given these endline survey design decisions? Other notes: Affected countries: Nigeria; announced: 2019-05-06. |
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| New Incentives | 5,944,203.00 | 1 | Conditional cash transfers | https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/november-2017-grant | -- | Grant for conditional cash transfer program for infant vaccination in North West Nigeria. The grant is the first (and major) tranche of a grant intended to fully support the program till May 2020, for the duration of the randomized controlled trial (RCT). IDinsight will work on the RCT analysis, using other funding from GiveWell, cf. https://www.givewell.org/charities/IDinsight/partnership-with-idinsight/new-incentives-rct. Affected countries: Nigeria; announced: 2018-08-28. | |
| New Incentives | 820,000.00 | 2 | Conditional cash transfers | https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/april-2017-grant | -- | After an exit grant in 2016-11 for conditional cash transfers for maternal health, the new grant is for a new New Incentives program doing conditional cash transfers to create incentives for immunization. Evaluation would probably be in partnership with IDinsight starting 2017-09. Affected countries: Nigeria; announced: 2017-05-05. | |
| New Incentives | 368,587.00 | 3 | Conditional cash transfers | https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/november-2016-grant | -- | Exit grant, indicating end of relationship (and to give recipient time to transition gracefully). No longer a top charity contender. See https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/all-content for all GiveWell content on the organization. | |
| Innovations for Poverty Action | 350,000.00 | 4 | Unconditional cash transfers/mindset | https://www.givewell.org/international/charities/ipa/may-2016-grant | -- | Grant supports research by Richard Sedlmayr and colleagues in collaboration with GiveDirectly to test mindset engagement in the context of unconditional cash transfers. | |
| New Incentives | 300,000.00 | 5 | Conditional cash transfers | https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/march-2016-grant | -- | General support grant to New Incentives (that had received a grant previously, NULL, NULL, NULL), in the hope of creating a future top charity. See https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/all-content for all GiveWell content on the organization. | |
| New Incentives | 100,000.00 | 7 | Conditional cash transfers/Potential top charity | http://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/new-incentives-general-support | -- | Grant for general support, with a view to helping scale up a potential top charity. Follows up a grant of the same amount in 2014-01. See https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/all-content for all GiveWell content on the organization. | |
| New Incentives | 100,000.00 | 7 | Conditional cash transfers/Potential top charity | https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/january-2014-grant | -- | First of the incubation grants, made to encourage the creation of new GiveWell top charities. See https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/all-content for all GiveWell content on the organization. |
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