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Donations List Website (retroactive)

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Vipul Naik

ProposalGrant
Closes October 7th, 2023
$2,500raised
$2,500minimum funding
$2,500funding goal
Fully funded and not currently accepting donations.

Project Summary

Vipul created a website that lists thousands of EA-related donations, including from all of the major EA donors like OpenPhil, FTX Future Fund, and EA Funds, from EA-adjacent donors like Vitalik Buterin and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and individual donors like Julia Wise.

This grant is retroactive funding for the work heā€™s already done on the website.

Project goals

I (Rachel) canā€™t speak for Vipulā€™s goals in deciding to create this website, but here are some good things I think it helps accomplish:

  • Increase transparency: OpenPhil and GiveWell have worked hard to be transparent, but the benefits of transparencyā€“gaining trust, getting feedback, and sparking public discussionā€“are further realized when data is not only possible to access but easy to access. And in the case of analyzing EA as a whole, or analyzing a cause area as a whole, looking at where one funder gave isnā€™t as useful as having an aggregate database.

  • Make it easier to people trying to get funding for projects to figure out where they should apply, by making it easy to see where other projects got funded.

  • Make it easier for grant makers to see the funding history of organizations theyā€™re considering donating to.

  • Give people in EA something many of them directly asked for.

How will this funding be used?

This is retro funding. It is just a reward and will not be used for any particular purpose.

How could this project be actively harmful?

I donā€™t really see how it could be, other than perhaps by diverting Vipulā€™s time from something higher impact.

(An alternative possibility worth mentioning is that maybe being more transparent ends up damaging EAā€™s reputation, but in that case the reputation kind of ought to be damaged. If funding is going to reasonable places, I expect transparency does more to increase trust than to harm reputation.)

What other funding is this person getting?

None.


Donation Offers

$2.5K