I once told people in a programmer group chat what I was doing when I got my new job at RP. One of them looked into the website and gave like a $10 donation.
To the best of my limited knowledge, this might well be our largest non-EA aligned donation in longtermism.
It’s a little hard to say because we don’t necessarily know the background / interests of all donors, but my current guess is around 2%-5% in 2021 so far. It’s varied by year (we’ve received big grants from non-EA sources in the past). So far, it is almost always to support animal welfare research (or unrestricted, but from a group motivated to support us due to our animal welfare research).
One tricky part of separating this out—there are a lot of people in the animal welfare community who are interested in impact (in an EA sense), but maybe not interested in non-animal EA things.
What percentage of your work/funding comes from non-EA aligned sources?
I once told people in a programmer group chat what I was doing when I got my new job at RP. One of them looked into the website and gave like a $10 donation.
To the best of my limited knowledge, this might well be our largest non-EA aligned donation in longtermism.
It’s a little hard to say because we don’t necessarily know the background / interests of all donors, but my current guess is around 2%-5% in 2021 so far. It’s varied by year (we’ve received big grants from non-EA sources in the past). So far, it is almost always to support animal welfare research (or unrestricted, but from a group motivated to support us due to our animal welfare research).
One tricky part of separating this out—there are a lot of people in the animal welfare community who are interested in impact (in an EA sense), but maybe not interested in non-animal EA things.