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) | .impact Animal Charity Evaluators Charity Science Health |
| Facebook username | peterhurford |
| LinkedIn username | peterhurford8 |
| Website | http://peterhurford.com/ |
| Donations URL | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html |
| Twitter username | peterhurford |
| LessWrong username | peter_hurford |
| Effective Altruism Forum username | Peter_Hurford |
| Effective Altruism Hub username | peter-hurford |
| GitHub username | peterhurford |
| 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 | days |
| Lag with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update) | months |
| Data entry method on Donations List Website | Manual (no scripts used) |
| Org Watch page | https://orgwatch.issarice.com/?person=Peter+Hurford |
Brief history: Peter Hurford was involved in effective altruism from his college days and started donating a significant share of his income as soon as he started earning. He has used his donations both to donate to established charities in global health and animal welfare, and to provide funds for new, fledgling charities in the domains of global health and effective altruism/movement growth
Brief notes on broad donor philosophy and major focus areas: Focus is a mix of global health and development, animal welfare, and effective altruism/movement growth. For the last of these, Hurford has historically focused on new charities, whereas for the first two, he has generally focused more on somewhat more established charities. Also some small donations to other causes, such as civil liberties and political campaigns, as a "good citizen"
Notes on grant decision logistics: For larger grants, Hurford decides the grant amount based on discussion with the recipient charity, and often posts the amount with a TBD before actually making it. In many cases, he writes blog posts covering his reasons for the grant
Notes on grant financing: Hurford finances donations from his personal funds, and may make the actual donation several months after deciding, based on the arrangement of his finances and the needs of the donee. Where there are transaction fees, he may add to the donation amount so that the donee finally gets the amount he would like the donee to get
Miscellaneous notes: Donations entered on Donations List Website are almost entirely a copy of http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html with a few differences: $220 for "Help an EA go to EA Global" on 2017-08-03 is omitted. Also, the donee for contract work is listed in the source as "Rethink Priorities" or "Charity Entrepreneurship" but is listed as the actual contract worker on Donations List Website. This means that part of the total that Hurford's page attributes to these two charities is attributed to specific contract workers on the Donations List Website. After accounting for these omissions and discrepancies, consistency of totals against the listed totals by year and by donee at http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html was last verified on 2019-01-21
| 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 | 40 | 90 | 1,671 | 13 | 14 | 25 | 40 | 79 | 90 | 255 | 1,000 | 1,700 | 5,377 | 12,500 |
| Effective altruism | 40 | 90 | 1,671 | 13 | 14 | 25 | 40 | 79 | 90 | 255 | 1,000 | 1,700 | 5,377 | 12,500 |
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 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effective altruism (filter this donor) | 40 | 10 | 66,843.00 | 164.00 | 12,619.00 | 11,645.00 | 26,727.00 | 11,200.00 | 2,708.00 | 1,780.00 |
| Total | 40 | 10 | 66,843.00 | 164.00 | 12,619.00 | 11,645.00 | 26,727.00 | 11,200.00 | 2,708.00 | 1,780.00 |
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 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effective altruism/community project coordination | 15 | 1 | 27,285.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20,677.00 | 6,000.00 | 608.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective altruism/movement growth | 18 | 7 | 13,771.00 | 164.00 | 119.00 | 11,608.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 100.00 | 1,780.00 |
| Effective altruism/cause prioritization | 1 | 1 | 12,500.00 | 0.00 | 12,500.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective altruism/outreach | 2 | 1 | 11,200.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6,000.00 | 5,200.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective altruism/meta/outreach | 2 | 1 | 2,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective altruism/meta/fundraising | 1 | 1 | 50.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective altruism | 1 | 1 | 37.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 37.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Classified total | 40 | 10 | 66,843.00 | 164.00 | 12,619.00 | 11,645.00 | 26,727.00 | 11,200.00 | 2,708.00 | 1,780.00 |
| Unclassified total | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 40 | 10 | 66,843.00 | 164.00 | 12,619.00 | 11,645.00 | 26,727.00 | 11,200.00 | 2,708.00 | 1,780.00 |
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 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rethink Charity (filter this donor) | Effective altruism/Community project coordination | FB Site | 39,076.00 | 164.00 | 119.00 | 11,508.00 | 20,677.00 | 6,000.00 | 608.00 | 0.00 |
| Charity Science Outreach (filter this donor) | 13,200.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6,000.00 | 5,200.00 | 2,000.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Rethink Priorities (filter this donor) | Cause prioritization | Site | 12,537.00 | 0.00 | 12,500.00 | 37.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Centre for Effective Altruism (filter this donor) | Effective altruism/movement growth | FB Site | 1,700.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,700.00 |
| 80,000 Hours (filter this donor) | Career coaching/life guidance | FB Tw WP Site | 180.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 100.00 | 80.00 |
| Raising for Effective Giving (filter this donor) | Effective altruism/Fundraising/Poker and sports | FB Tw WP Site | 50.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund (filter this donor) | 25.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Effective Altruism Funds: Global Health and Development Fund (filter this donor) | 25.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Effective Altruism Funds: Long-Term Future Fund (filter this donor) | 25.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Effective Altruism Funds: Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (filter this donor) | 25.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Total | -- | -- | 66,843.00 | 164.00 | 12,619.00 | 11,645.00 | 26,727.00 | 11,200.00 | 2,708.00 | 1,780.00 |
Graph of spending by donee and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by donee and year (cumulative)
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| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rethink Priorities - 2021 Impact and 2022 Strategy (GW, IR) | 2021-11-15 | Peter Hurford | Rethink Priorities | Rethink Priorities | Donee periodic update | Cause prioritization|Animal welfare|Effective altruism|Global catastrophic risks|Global health and development | In this post, originally published at https://rethinkpriorities.org/news/2021-impact-and-2022-strategy on the Rethink Priorities website, the Rethink Priorities team goes into detail on what they've accomplished in 2021 as well as budgets for 2022 and 2023, with a breakdown by cause area, under three scenarios: low, high, and maximally ambitious. | ||
| Rethink Priorities 2019 Impact and Strategy (GW, IR) | 2019-12-02 | Peter Hurford | Rethink Priorities | Rethink Priorities | Donee periodic update | Cause prioritization|Animal welfare|Effective altruism|Global catastrophic risks | Peter Hurford describes the work and impact in 2019 of Rethink Priorities, an organization he co-founded. For impact, he links to a previously published post https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qmtLQfrZjbrYWXafi/rethink-priorities-impact-survey (GW, IR) giving the results of an impact survey conducted by Rethink Priorities. He also lists key initiatives that Rethink Priorities may take on in 2020. Regarding funding, the post says: "We are heavily funding constrained and have the management capacity and hiring pool to quickly grow if given more money. Our budget for 2020-2021 is between $1,174,000 and $2,384,000 over two years. If funded at the minimum level, we would cover our existing operations through 2021, pay for necessary operational support and buy 10 more hours a week working time from our existing research team." More detailed budget estimates are included in the post | ||
| Rethink Priorities Plans for 2019 (GW, IR) | 2018-12-17 | Peter Hurford | Rethink Priorities | Rethink Priorities | Donee periodic update | Cause prioritization|Animal welfare|Effective altruism|Global catastrophic risks | Peter Hurford outlines the budget and plans for the priorities research group Rethink Priorities for 2019. The budget is $447,000, of which $153,000 has been raised already. The blog post discusses the sort of research that Rethink Priorities plans to conduct: analysis of the impact of ballot initiatives on animal welfare, understanding corporate campaigns for animal welfare, identifying ways to improve wild animal welfare, doing surveys and polling, understanding EA movement growth, understanding mental health interventions, analysis of catastrophic risk reduction. See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yq8M5aorCLSq8JjvC/rethink-priorities-2019-impact-and-strategy (GW, IR) for the 2019 follow-up post that reports on work and impact in 2019 and plans for 2020 | ||
| Students for High Impact Charity: Review and $10K Grant | 2016-09-27 | Peter Hurford | Peter Hurford | Students for High Impact Charity | Single donation documentation | Effective altruism/movement growth | Explanation of some of the investigative process that led the author to decide to donate to SHIC. The focus is on the investigation process and information revealed about SHIC rather than on the amount donated |
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 40) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rethink Charity | 164.00 | 19 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | Donation covers tech fees. | |
| Rethink Charity | 31.00 | 32 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 74.00 | 26 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 14.00 | 37 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | Web hosting. | |
| Rethink Priorities | 12,500.00 | 1 | Effective altruism/cause prioritization | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EgCiFPbcQqbphv4Pv/four-organizations-eas-should-fully-fund-for-2018 (GW, IR) for more background and thinking. | |
| Rethink Charity | 13.00 | 38 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | For a domain name. | |
| Rethink Charity | 1,000.00 | 11 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | Support to send Tee Barnett to EA London on behalf of Rethink Charity. | |
| Rethink Charity | 1,150.00 | 10 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | Grant intended for Students for High Impact Charity, part of a $10,000 grant decision announced on 2016-09-27. See http://effective-altruism.com/ea/128/students_for_high_impact_charity_review_and_10k/ for more context. The first $4,000 of the grant amount was sent on 2017-01-13 and the next $5,030 was sent 2017-06-30. | |
| Rethink Charity | 255.00 | 17 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | Covers $255 out of $306 of annual SurveyMonkey subscription cost. Remaining $51 covered by the Center for Effective Altruism. | |
| Rethink Charity | 5,000.00 | 7 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | Grant intended for Students for High Impact Charity, part of a $10,000 grant decision announced on 2016-09-27. See http://effective-altruism.com/ea/128/students_for_high_impact_charity_review_and_10k/ for more context. The first $4,000 of the grant amount was sent on 2017-01-13. | |
| Rethink Priorities | 37.00 | 30 | Effective altruism | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | Research materials. | |
| Effective Altruism Funds: Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund | 25.00 | 33 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | A total of $100 donated across the four EA Funds: 25% to each fund, for informational purposes. | |
| Effective Altruism Funds: Long-Term Future Fund | 25.00 | 33 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | A total of $100 donated across the four EA Funds: 25% to each fund, for informational purposes. | |
| Effective Altruism Funds: Global Health and Development Fund | 25.00 | 33 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | A total of $100 donated across the four EA Funds: 25% to each fund, for informational purposes. | |
| Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund | 25.00 | 33 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | A total of $100 donated across the four EA Funds: 25% to each fund, for informational purposes. | |
| Rethink Charity | 90.00 | 21 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | For meetup.com fees. | |
| Rethink Charity | 4,000.00 | 8 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | Grant originally made to Students for High Impact Charity before it merged with .impact to form Rethink Charity. See http://effective-altruism.com/ea/128/students_for_high_impact_charity_review_and_10k/ for the explanation; the remaining amount would be granted later. | |
| Raising for Effective Giving | 50.00 | 27 | Effective altruism/meta/fundraising | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | For a fundraiser. | |
| Rethink Charity | 13.00 | 38 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | Domain name purchase. | |
| Rethink Charity | 90.00 | 21 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 500.00 | 15 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 192.00 | 18 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 12,000.00 | 2 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Charity Science Outreach | 6,000.00 | 4 | Effective altruism/outreach | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 7,792.00 | 3 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 90.00 | 21 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 5,377.00 | 5 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 500.00 | 15 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 47.00 | 28 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 40.00 | 29 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Charity Science Outreach | 5,200.00 | 6 | Effective altruism/outreach | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 36.00 | 31 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| 80,000 Hours | 100.00 | 20 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 13.00 | 38 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 516.00 | 14 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Rethink Charity | 79.00 | 25 | Effective altruism/community project coordination | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Charity Science Outreach | 1,000.00 | 11 | Effective altruism/meta/outreach | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Charity Science Outreach | 1,000.00 | 11 | Effective altruism/meta/outreach | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| 80,000 Hours | 80.00 | 24 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- | ||
| Centre for Effective Altruism | 1,700.00 | 9 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://peterhurford.com/other/donations.html | -- |
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