Michael Dickens donations made to The Good Food Institute

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Facebook username michael.j.dickens
LinkedIn username michael-dickens-a4173255
Websitehttp://mdickens.me/
Donations URLhttp://mdickens.me/donations/
LessWrong usernameMTGandP
Effective Altruism Forum usernameMichaelDickens
Effective Altruism Hub usernamemichael-dickens
GitHub usernamemichaeldickens
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteManual (no scripts used)
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?person=Michael+Dickens

Full donor page for donor Michael Dickens

Basic donee information

ItemValue
Country United States
Facebook page thegoodfoodinstitute
Websitehttp://www.gfi.org/
Donate pagehttps://www.gfi.org/donate
Donation case pagehttp://www.gfi.org/why
Twitter usernameGoodFoodInst
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Food_Institute
Open Philanthropy Project grant reviewhttp://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/good-food-institute-general-support
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=The+Good+Food+Institute
Launch date2016-02

Full donee page for donee The Good Food Institute

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 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400
Animal welfare 1 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400 26,400

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 2017
Animal welfare (filter this donor) 1 26,400.00 26,400.00
Total 1 26,400.00 26,400.00

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
Where I Am Donating in 20162016-11-01Michael Dickens Effective Altruism ForumMichael Dickens Animal Charity Evaluators The Good Food Institute Mercy For Animals Raising for Effective Giving Single donation documentationAnimal welfare, AI riskDickens described his evaluation of each of the four finalists and the reasoning behind his (tentatively) final decision to give to The Good Food Institute

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
26,400.0012017-02Animal welfare/meat alternativeshttp://mdickens.me/donations/-- See http://mdickens.me/2016/10/31/where_i_am_donating_in_2016/ for a full explanation of the reasons for donation. Note that the donation was for 2016 but was made in 2017 for personal finance and tax reasons. Employer match: Affirm Inc matched 20,000.00; Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 100.00%.