I was having a look at the total budgets for various EA orgs to see what the overall balance looks like:
Meta (3.8%)
GW 2.7%
ACE 0.2%
80K 0.2%
GWWC 0.2%
LYCS 0.5%
Poverty (79.6%)
AMF 7.6%
GD 54.9%
SCI 9.8%
DtW 7.3%
Animal (11.2%)
AE 0.9%
THL 1.5%
MFA 8.8%
xrisk (5.4%)
MIRI 5.4%
I was unable to find figures for FHI, FLI, CSER, GCRI or CFAR so the meta and xrisk portions are going to be larger than this. Also note that, along with usual caveats, these figures are probably wrong as I wasn’t putting much care into them. Let me know if I should tidy this up a bit and write a post on it or whether the whole exercise is a waste of time.
Thanks for putting this together! It’s interesting enough that I hope it doesn’t get buried in the open thread.
You could add Charity Science to the Meta section as the organisation focused on fundraising for GiveWell-recommended charities. Though it wouldn’t affect the figures much, as we could support the three of us if we got less than 0.02%.
I also understand that FHI’s budget is quite large, so it would change the figures somewhat. It might be worth emailing sean . oheigeartaigh at philosophy.ox.ac.uk to find out the budget for it and CSER.
I was having a look at the total budgets for various EA orgs to see what the overall balance looks like:
Meta (3.8%)
GW 2.7%
ACE 0.2%
80K 0.2%
GWWC 0.2%
LYCS 0.5%
Poverty (79.6%)
AMF 7.6%
GD 54.9%
SCI 9.8%
DtW 7.3%
Animal (11.2%)
AE 0.9%
THL 1.5%
MFA 8.8%
xrisk (5.4%)
MIRI 5.4%
I was unable to find figures for FHI, FLI, CSER, GCRI or CFAR so the meta and xrisk portions are going to be larger than this. Also note that, along with usual caveats, these figures are probably wrong as I wasn’t putting much care into them. Let me know if I should tidy this up a bit and write a post on it or whether the whole exercise is a waste of time.
Thanks for putting this together! It’s interesting enough that I hope it doesn’t get buried in the open thread.
You could add Charity Science to the Meta section as the organisation focused on fundraising for GiveWell-recommended charities. Though it wouldn’t affect the figures much, as we could support the three of us if we got less than 0.02%.
I also understand that FHI’s budget is quite large, so it would change the figures somewhat. It might be worth emailing sean . oheigeartaigh at philosophy.ox.ac.uk to find out the budget for it and CSER.
I would be interested in more detailed numbers on these, including the numbers for spending in $s as well as the %.
My very vague guess would be that GCRI, CSER and FLI have $200k/yr, CFAR $400k/yr and FHI $600k/yr.
It would also be interesting to think about how much of a demand these organisations place on EA donors as opposed to academic grants.
See also here for more figures.
Yes, please do do a proper post on this with cites etc, I think this is really valuable!
Thanks for making this!
FYI, almost all of GiveDirectly’s income comes from Good Ventures or non-EAs. Its funding sources break down as follows:
Total: 17.4 million Good Ventures: 7 million Other Givewell: ~3.4 million Other non-EA: 7 million (presumably)
I think this sort of comparison is very valuable overall!