This whole experience has made me realize there is very little transparency regarding group funding and groups in general...
...Is this information public but buried in some long PDF report? Or is it not public at all?
Is there a reason why this information is not public (besides “it will take time to generate/maintain it and we would rather spend our time on more impactful work) ? Are there any downsides to making this information public?
I think for some of the questions the information the information would take an effort to collect. For example, I don’t think anyone in CEA or EAIF knows the answer of “How old is EA Finland” (and many members of EA Finland would not know this either). Estimating the size of EA Finland is also a little tricky. When we applied for funding, we gave many different numbers, such as the number of active volunteers and number of people on our Telegram channel, so these numbers EAIF would know, in case they would want to start collecting an info list like the suggested one.
I could find some national organization related approved grants here: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/grants, but there is a warning that some data is still missing, because the tool is in beta. When the data is complete, an interested person could do a search by country and create a list of funding received per country, with some info on details such as how much of it goes to salaries. (At least I could find the grant info of the grant we received for EA Finland by searching by “Finland”.)
I don’t think anyone is publicly listing the rejected grants. Personally, I would be interested to see them – maybe grant applications could ask for approval to list the rejections as well in the application process?
Is there a reason why this information is not public (besides “it will take time to generate/maintain it and we would rather spend our time on more impactful work) ? Are there any downsides to making this information public?
I think for some of the questions the information the information would take an effort to collect. For example, I don’t think anyone in CEA or EAIF knows the answer of “How old is EA Finland” (and many members of EA Finland would not know this either). Estimating the size of EA Finland is also a little tricky. When we applied for funding, we gave many different numbers, such as the number of active volunteers and number of people on our Telegram channel, so these numbers EAIF would know, in case they would want to start collecting an info list like the suggested one.
I could find some national organization related approved grants here: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/grants, but there is a warning that some data is still missing, because the tool is in beta. When the data is complete, an interested person could do a search by country and create a list of funding received per country, with some info on details such as how much of it goes to salaries. (At least I could find the grant info of the grant we received for EA Finland by searching by “Finland”.)
I don’t think anyone is publicly listing the rejected grants. Personally, I would be interested to see them – maybe grant applications could ask for approval to list the rejections as well in the application process?