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 | 3 | 1,196,729 | 1,277,699 | 314,752 | 314,752 | 314,752 | 314,752 | 1,196,729 | 1,196,729 | 1,196,729 | 2,321,617 | 2,321,617 | 2,321,617 | 2,321,617 |
| Consulting | 3 | 1,196,729 | 1,277,699 | 314,752 | 314,752 | 314,752 | 314,752 | 1,196,729 | 1,196,729 | 1,196,729 | 2,321,617 | 2,321,617 | 2,321,617 | 2,321,617 |
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 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting (filter this donor) | 3 | 1 | 3,833,098.00 | 1,196,729.00 | 2,321,617.00 | 314,752.00 |
| Total | 3 | 1 | 3,833,098.00 | 1,196,729.00 | 2,321,617.00 | 314,752.00 |
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 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting | 3 | 1 | 3,833,098.00 | 1,196,729.00 | 2,321,617.00 | 314,752.00 |
| Classified total | 3 | 1 | 3,833,098.00 | 1,196,729.00 | 2,321,617.00 | 314,752.00 |
| Unclassified total | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 3 | 1 | 3,833,098.00 | 1,196,729.00 | 2,321,617.00 | 314,752.00 |
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 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDinsight (filter this donor) | Site | 3,833,098.00 | 1,196,729.00 | 2,321,617.00 | 314,752.00 | |
| Total | -- | -- | 3,833,098.00 | 1,196,729.00 | 2,321,617.00 | 314,752.00 |
Graph of spending by donee and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by donee 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 3) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDinsight | 1,196,729.00 | 2 | Consulting | https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/IDinsight-embedded-givewell-team-2018 | -- | Grant to continue supporting the work of the GiveWell embedded team, renews the May 2017 grant https://www.givewell.org/charities/IDinsight/may-2017-grant Large projects facilitated by this grant include a midline evaluation for the RCT of New Incentives, and large-scale survey(s) of top charity beneficiaries. Smaller projects include supporting a RCT of Charity Science Health and a deep assessment of the quality of Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) monitoring. Announced: 2018-08-09. | |
| IDinsight | 2,321,617.00 | 1 | Consulting | https://www.givewell.org/charities/IDinsight/may-2017-grant | -- | Grant supports a GiveWell-embedded team for the next 12 months, helping with evaluating top charities and interventions. Announced: 2017-10-17. | |
| IDinsight | 314,752.00 | 3 | Consulting | https://www.givewell.org/charities/IDinsight/october-2016-grant | -- | Grant for embedded GiveWell team. See https://www.givewell.org/charities/idinsight/all-content for all GiveWell content on the organization. |
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