BERI has maybe 2 people working full-time on grant assessment, and my current guess is that they give out about $5 million dollars of grants a year
Note that BERI has only existed for a little over 2 years, and their grant-making has been pretty lumpy, so I don’t think they’ve yet reached any equilibrium grant-making rate (one which could be believably expressed in terms of $X dollars / year).
I agree. Though I think I expect the ratio of funds-distributed/staff to roughly stay the same, at least for a bit, and probably go up a bit.
I think older and larger organizations will have smaller funds-distributed/staff ratios, but I think that’s mostly because coordinating people is hard and marginal productiveness of a hire goes down a lot after the initial founders, so you need to hire a lot more people to produce the same quality of output.
Note that BERI has only existed for a little over 2 years, and their grant-making has been pretty lumpy, so I don’t think they’ve yet reached any equilibrium grant-making rate (one which could be believably expressed in terms of $X dollars / year).
I agree. Though I think I expect the ratio of
funds-distributed/staffto roughly stay the same, at least for a bit, and probably go up a bit.I think older and larger organizations will have smaller
funds-distributed/staffratios, but I think that’s mostly because coordinating people is hard and marginal productiveness of a hire goes down a lot after the initial founders, so you need to hire a lot more people to produce the same quality of output.