Good Ventures/not recommended by GiveWell or Open Philanthropy Project donations made to Startup:Education

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Affiliated organizations (current or former; restricted to potential donees or others relevant to donation decisions)Good Ventures
Regularity with which donor updates donations datacontinuous updates
Regularity with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update)irregular
Lag with which donor updates donations datamonths
Lag with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update)months
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteManual (no scripts used)

Brief history: Historically, Good Ventures and GiveWell worked together but were separate entities, and Good Ventures made a number of grants based on the beliefs and interets of Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna; in some cases these were helped by some GiveWell research. As GiveWell Labs began taking off and morphed into Open Philanthropy, the majority of Good Ventures money moved shifted to Open Philanthropy Project, and most of the rest was to GiveWell top and standout charities. Other than that, they also support GiveWell operations. The grants listed here are basically all the grants that may be informed by GiveWell or Open Philanthropy Project research but are not directly recommended by GiveWell or Open Philanthropy, and do not support GiveWell operations

Brief notes on broad donor philosophy and major focus areas: Focus areas here include "marriage equality", drug policy, and education. Decisions in drug policy are sometimes assisted by research of Open Philanthropy but the grants themselves are not recommended by Open Philanthropy. Recently, some funding for Alzheimers disease based on Open Philanthropy study has been funded separately by Good Ventures, see https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/update-investigating-neglected-goals-biological-research

Notes on grant publication logistics: Grant pages are published on the Good Ventures website, generally within a few months after the grant is made

Notes on grant financing: Financing for these grants is provided by Good Ventures. The exact financing mechanism is not clear

Miscellaneous notes: See also http://effective-altruism.com/ea/10l/june_2016_givewell_board_meeting/#relationship-with-good-ventures "51:59: Cari and Dustin aren’t tied down, they have their own thing"

Full donor page for donor Good Ventures/not recommended by GiveWell or Open Philanthropy Project

Basic donee information

ItemValue
Country
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup:Education

Full donee page for donee Startup:Education

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 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000
Education 1 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000

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 2014
Education (filter this donor) 1 5,000,000.00 5,000,000.00
Total 1 5,000,000.00 5,000,000.00

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

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.

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
5,000,000.0012014-04Education/United Stateshttp://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/startup-education-school-reform-in-newark-april-2014Mark Zuckerberg Priscilla Chan Cory Booker Grant structured as a "match" to the grant by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan of $100 million for school reform in Newark. Matching grants from other donors were needed to unlock the funding from Zuckerberg and Chan. Though the grant was not recommended by GiveWell, GiveWell staff assisted with a writeup at http://www.goodventures.org/report/school-reform-in-newark to help decide on the grant. Affected countries: United States; affected states: New Jersey; affected cities: Newark.