Blake Borgeson donations made to Center for Applied Rationality

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Facebook username blakeborgeson
LinkedIn username blakeborgeson
Websitehttp://www.blakeb.org/
Twitter usernameblakeweb
Effective Altruism Hub usernameblakeborgeson
GitHub usernameblakeweb
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteManual (no scripts used)
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?person=Blake+Borgeson

Full donor page for donor Blake Borgeson

Basic donee information

ItemValue
Country United States
Facebook page AppliedRationality
Websitehttp://rationality.org/
Donate pagehttp://rationality.org/donate
Donors list pagehttp://rationality.org/about/top-donors
Transparency and financials pagehttp://rationality.org/about/official-records
Donation case pagehttp://lesswrong.com/lw/n39/why_cfar_the_view_from_2015/
Twitter usernamecfarnews
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Applied_Rationality
Open Philanthropy Project grant reviewhttp://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/center-applied-rationality-general-support
Timelines wiki pagehttps://timelines.issarice.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Center_for_Applied_Rationality
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Center+for+Applied+Rationality
Key peopleJulia Galef|Anna Salamon
Launch date2012

Full donee page for donee Center for Applied Rationality

Donor–donee relationship

Item Value

Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 1 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000
1 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000

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 Total 2016
(filter this donor) 1 90,000.00 90,000.00
Total 1 90,000.00 90,000.00

Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (1 documents)

Title (URL linked)Publication dateAuthorPublisherAffected donorsAffected doneesAffected influencersDocument scopeCause areaNotes
EAs write about where they give2016-12-09Julia Wise Effective Altruism ForumBlake Borgeson Eva Vivalt Ben Kuhn Alexander Gordon-Brown and Denise Melchin Elizabeth Van Nostrand Machine Intelligence Research Institute Center for Applied Rationality AidGrade Charity Science: Health 80,000 Hours Centre for Effective Altruism Tostan Periodic donation list documentationGlobal health and development, AI riskJulia Wise got submissions from multiple donors about their donation plans and put them together in a single post. The goal was to cover people outside of organizations that publish such posts for their employees

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (1 donations)

Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 1)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
90,000.0012016--http://effective-altruism.com/ea/14u/eas_write_about_where_they_give/-- Borgeson did not specify numerical amounts but gave percentages, combined these with other info of 300000 dollars to MIRI in https://intelligence.org/2016/08/05/miri-strategy-update-2016/. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 15.00%.