I think total EA funding is something like (per year):
$250m Open Phil / Good Ventures
$80m from GiveWell (excluding Open Phil)
$50m other
So that’s 66% Open Phil. Note that Open Phil seems to be 90%+ Dustin and Cari.
Sorry I don’t have sources for these figures—they’re my personal rough estimates. (Though Open Phil’s grants are almost all published.)
One other thing to note is that funding is only one component of EA – we also have the value of the labour of community members and our ideas. Even if there was no funding at all, we could still accomplish a bunch (by going to work in existing institutions like govt., academia, non-profits, or working as volunteers).
Quick note on the figures for 80k: about 66% of our funding comes from Open Phil in recent years. You can’t divide the size of the grant by our annual budget, because we’re also building up reserves with the scale of the org. You instead need to divide the grant by our total income.
Even if there was no funding at all, we could still accomplish a bunch (by going to work in existing institutions like govt., academia, non-profits, or working as volunteers).
Also existing EAs are doing or planning to do direct work in large part because of the existence of Open Phil funding. I expect that if Good Ventures decided to part ways, a fair number of people will pivot to earning-to-give instead.
I think the longtermist EA amount is around $30m per year—and I have reasonable data on that.
I then guessed that there’s another $50m of near termist donations (based on typical ratios of near termist to longtermist donors). Note this needs to include all effective animal advocacy and Founder’s Pledge. However, it might be that most of this category overlaps with the GiveWell donations, so I might have been overoptimistic. Still I would guess that it’s ~$20m, making for $50m+ in total within other.
I think total EA funding is something like (per year):
$250m Open Phil / Good Ventures
$80m from GiveWell (excluding Open Phil)
$50m other
So that’s 66% Open Phil. Note that Open Phil seems to be 90%+ Dustin and Cari.
Sorry I don’t have sources for these figures—they’re my personal rough estimates. (Though Open Phil’s grants are almost all published.)
One other thing to note is that funding is only one component of EA – we also have the value of the labour of community members and our ideas. Even if there was no funding at all, we could still accomplish a bunch (by going to work in existing institutions like govt., academia, non-profits, or working as volunteers).
Quick note on the figures for 80k: about 66% of our funding comes from Open Phil in recent years. You can’t divide the size of the grant by our annual budget, because we’re also building up reserves with the scale of the org. You instead need to divide the grant by our total income.
Also existing EAs are doing or planning to do direct work in large part because of the existence of Open Phil funding. I expect that if Good Ventures decided to part ways, a fair number of people will pivot to earning-to-give instead.
$80m “other” per year seems very high to me, fwiw.
That’s the bit I’m most unsure about.
I think the longtermist EA amount is around $30m per year—and I have reasonable data on that.
I then guessed that there’s another $50m of near termist donations (based on typical ratios of near termist to longtermist donors). Note this needs to include all effective animal advocacy and Founder’s Pledge. However, it might be that most of this category overlaps with the GiveWell donations, so I might have been overoptimistic. Still I would guess that it’s ~$20m, making for $50m+ in total within other.
I’ve updated it to $50m rather than $80m.
Good point that Open Phil makes all donations public. I found a CSV on their site and added up the donations dated 2018/2019/2020.
2018: $190,477,938
2019: $273,279,362
2020 so far: $145,405,362
This is a really useful answer.