Helen Toner donations made
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Basic donor information
Donor donation statistics
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2 |
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1,250 |
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2,500 |
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Donation amounts by cause area and year
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 |
2016 |
(filter this donor) |
2 |
2 |
2,500.00 |
2,500.00 |
Total |
2 |
2 |
2,500.00 |
2,500.00 |
Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.
Donation amounts by subcause area and year
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Donation amounts by donee and year
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Donation amounts by influencer and year
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Donation amounts by disclosures and year
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Donation amounts by country and year
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Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (5 documents)
Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
Staff Members’ Personal Donations for Giving Season 2017 | 2017-12-18 | Holden Karnofsky | Open Philanthropy | Holden Karnofsky Alexander Berger Nick Beckstead Helen Toner Claire Zabel Lewis Bollard Ajeya Cotra Morgan Davis Michael Levine | GiveWell top charities GiveWell GiveDirectly EA Giving Group Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative Effective Altruism Funds Sentience Institute Encompass The Humane League The Good Food Institute Mercy For Animals Compassion in World Farming USA Animal Equality Donor lottery Against Malaria Foundation GiveDirectly | | Periodic donation list documentation | | Open Philanthropy Project staff members describe where they are donating this year, and the considerations that went into the donation decision. By policy, amounts are not disclosed. This is the first standalone blog post of this sort by the Open Philanthropy Project; in previous years, the corresponding donations were documented in the GiveWell staff members donation post. |
Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2016 | 2016-12-09 | Natalie Crispin | GiveWell | Elie Hassenfeld Holden Karnofsky Natalie Crispin Alexander Berger Timothy Telleen-Lawton Josh Rosenberg Rebecca Raible Helen Toner Sophie Monahan Laura Muñoz Catherine Hollander Andrew Martin Lewis Bollard Chelsea Tabart Sarah Ward Chris Somerville Ajeya Cotra Chris Smith Isabel Arjmand | A political campaign GiveWell top charities International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation UPMC Center for Health Security Donor lottery EA Giving Group GiveDirectly Center for Applied Rationality Malaria Consortium Animal Charity Evaluators Northwest Health Law Advocates StrongMinds Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative The Humane Society of the United States The Humane League Mercy For Animals Humane Society International Compassion in World Farming USA The Good Food Institute Citizens for Farm Animal Protection The END Fund Causa Justa Planned Parenthood International Refugee Assistance Project | | Periodic donation list documentation | | GiveWell and Open Philanthropy Project staff describe their annual donation plans for 2016. Some of these are tentative and get superseded by further events. Also, not all employees are present in the document (participation is optional). Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell |
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 |
Our Grantmaking So Far: Approach and Process | 2016-02-09 | Helen Toner | Open Philanthropy | Open Philanthropy | | | Broad donor strategy | | The post provides a detailed description of Open Philanthropy's grantmaking process, both in terms of the overall approach and the decision process for individual grants. A March 2017 update adds a 50/40/10 rule. A section on differences with other foundations highlights three differences: (1) more time and thought in focus area selection and program officer selection, (2) closer collaboration between grant investigators and primary decision-makers, (3) greater prioritization of information-sharing including with the general public where feasible, and (4) taking on more of the write-up work associated with a grant, so that grantees can focus on their work and less on tailoring grant applications. The next major update from Open Philanthropy on their general grantmaking process would be https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/questions-we-ask-ourselves-making-grant by Michael Levine (2019-08-06). |
Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2015 | 2015-12-09 | Elie Hassenfeld | GiveWell | Elie Hassenfeld Holden Karnofsky Natalie Crispin Alexander Berger Timothy Telleen-Lawton Sean Conley Josh Rosenberg Jake Marcus Rebecca Raible Milan Griffes Helen Toner Sophie Monahan Laura Muñoz Catherine Hollander Andrew Martin Claire Zabel Nicole Ross Lewis Bollard | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation GiveWell GiveDirectly Wikimedia Foundation Center for Global Development Martha’s Table Country Dance and Song Society Northwest Health Law Advocates Mercy For Animals The Humane League Animal Charity Evaluators Raising for Effective Giving Humane Society of te United States | | Periodic donation list documentation | | GiveWell and Open Philanthropy Project staff describe their annual donation plans for 2015. Some of these are tentative and get superseded by further events. Also, not all employees are present in the document (participation is optional). Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell |
Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (2 donations)
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 2) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
A friend project | -- | -- | 2017-12-18 | -- | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/staff-members-personal-donations-giving-season-2017#Helen | -- | The writeup says: "This year, I gave the large bulk of my donations to a new project being started up by a couple of friends. (The project is currently non-public, so I won’t give more details here.) I generally think that funding early-stage projects where you have inside information, e.g. by knowing the people involved, is one of the very best ways for small donors to give, so I was excited to come across this project. In this case, I know the founders pretty well and have confidence that they share my values, that they can competently execute the project, and that receiving additional funding quickly was helpful to them, so I saw this as an unusually good opportunity for me as an individual.". |
Donor lottery | 2,500.00 | 1 | 2016-12-07 | -- | http://effective-altruism.com/ea/14d/donor_lotteries_a_stepbystep_guide_for_mall/ | -- | Reasoning explained more in https://blog.givewell.org/2016/12/09/staff-members-personal-donations-giving-season-2016/ (go to section for Helen Toner). Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 100.00%. |
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