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) | Foundational Research Institute |
| Facebook username | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007139566626 |
| LinkedIn username | ozy-brennan-1b86b3b2 |
| Website | https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/ |
| Donations URL | https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/donations-post-2016/ |
| GitHub username | ozybrennan |
| Data entry method on Donations List Website | Manual (no scripts used) |
| Org Watch page | https://orgwatch.issarice.com/?person=Ozy+Brennan |
| 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 | 1 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Education | 1 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education (filter this donor) | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Total | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.
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 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Classified total | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Unclassified total | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.
| Donee | Cause area | Metadata | Total | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tostan (filter this donor) | Female empowerment/community empowerment/human rights | Tw WP Site TW | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Total | -- | -- | 100.00 | 100.00 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seeing Like A State, Flashlights, and Giving This Year | 2016-12-01 | Elizabeth Van Nostrand | Personal blog | Elizabeth Van Nostrand Ozy Brennan | Tostan | Third-party case for donation | Education | Argues that donations to things that build capacity could be more valuable than donations to things with directly measured impact. Recommends Tostan for its capacity-building. The post influenced others to donate to Tostan: see https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/donations-post-2016/ and https://acesounderglass.com/2017/01/05/tracking-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 1) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tostan | 100.00 | 1 | Education | https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/donations-post-2016/ | -- | References https://acesounderglass.com/2016/12/01/5167/; says: While I don’t have a firm opinion on the underlying issue, I think that not enough people do independent charity research, and in particular not enough global poverty effective altruists do independent charity research. While GiveWell is an amazing organization, it’s important not to have a single point of failure; a diversity of viewpoints means that we’re more likely to notice their mistakes and things they overlook. And since effective altruism has major talent gaps, it’s good for people to try to fill them. Therefore, I am giving to Tostan to encourage more people to do such research. I will probably give to other charities recommended by particularly impressive blog posts, until it seems like there is enough independent charity research. |
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