I wonder if delaying donations might play a role as a crude comparison of room for more funding between different EA organizations, or for a desire to keep all current EA organizations afloat. A donor who wants to support EA organizations but is uncertain about which provides the most value might chose the heuristic “donate to the EA organization that is farthest from their fundraising target at the end of their fundraiser”. If this is the case, providing better information for comparing EA organizations might help. Or, a “EA Meta-Organization Fund” could be created that the individual donors could fund, and then would fund the individual organizations (according to room for more funding, avoiding organizations collapsing due to lack of funds, or according to an impact evaluation of the individual organizations)
I wonder if delaying donations might play a role as a crude comparison of room for more funding between different EA organizations, or for a desire to keep all current EA organizations afloat. A donor who wants to support EA organizations but is uncertain about which provides the most value might chose the heuristic “donate to the EA organization that is farthest from their fundraising target at the end of their fundraiser”. If this is the case, providing better information for comparing EA organizations might help. Or, a “EA Meta-Organization Fund” could be created that the individual donors could fund, and then would fund the individual organizations (according to room for more funding, avoiding organizations collapsing due to lack of funds, or according to an impact evaluation of the individual organizations)