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.
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| 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Global health | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cash transfers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash transfers (filter this donor) | 1 | 1 | 0.00 |
| Global health (filter this donor) | 1 | 1 | 0.00 |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 0.00 |
Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.
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| Donee | Cause area | Metadata | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against Malaria Foundation (filter this donor) | Global health/malaria | FB Tw WP Site GW CN GS TW | 0.00 |
| GiveDirectly (filter this donor) | Cash transfers | FB Tw WP Site GW | 0.00 |
| Total | -- | -- | 0.00 |
Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.
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| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Questions We Ask Ourselves Before Making a Grant | 2019-08-06 | Michael Levine | Open Philanthropy | Open Philanthropy Sandler Foundation | Center for Security and Emerging Technology University of Washington (Institute for Protein Design) | Broad donor strategy | Michael Levine describes some guidance that the Open Philanthropy Project has put together for program officers on questions to consider before making a grant. This complements guidance published three years ago about internal grant writeups: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/our-grantmaking-so-far-approach-and-process | ||
| Managing Funder-Grantee Dynamics Responsibly | 2018-03-30 | Michael Levine | Open Philanthropy | Open Philanthropy | Miscellaneous commentary | Michael Levine of the Open Philanthropy Project discusses how big donors (like the Open Philanthropy Project) can unduly influence the plans of existing and potential grantees, and what the organization is doing to mitigate that impact. | |||
| 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Against Malaria Foundation | -- | -- | Global health/malaria | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/staff-members-personal-donations-giving-season-2017#Mike | GiveWell | Donation of 70% to Against Malaria Foundation, consistent with the GiveWell recommendation for people who want to directly donate to GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund (70% to Against Malaria Foundation, 30% to Schistosomiasis Control Initiative). Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 70.00%. | |
| GiveDirectly | -- | -- | Cash transfers | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/staff-members-personal-donations-giving-season-2017#Mike | GiveWell | Donation of 30% to GiveDirectly, which deviates from the GiveWell recommendation for people who want to directly donate to GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund (70% to Against Malaria Foundation, 30% to Schistosomiasis Control Initiative) because, as donor states: "I see value in having direct cash transfers serve as a benchmark for other interventions, and in part because I want to signal my excitement about GiveDirectly’s new universal basic income project, even if my contribution will not meaningfully advance that specific work.". Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 30.00%. |
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