It doesn’t look like OPP completely overshadows individual EA donations.
For a rough idea of scale, OPP made grants totalling ~$50-100 million (EDIT: corrected by Stefan to ~$120-170 million) in each of 2018 and 2019, and ~3,500 people took the EA survey in 2018. To match OPP, they would need to donate $14K-30K per survey respondent per year. Of course, they wouldn’t have to match OPP; I think it’s feasible for individual EAs to get within 5% of OPPs grants, e.g. if ~1000 EAs donated ~$5,000 per year on average.
For the subsample they looked at from those 3,500, the median amount donated in 2017 was ~$700, the mean was ~$10,000, and the total was ~$18 million, with a maximum of $5 million from one respondent.
It says in the May 2019 EA London Newsletter that Open Philanthropy Project granted over $170 million in 2018. It also says that they had made grants totalling almost $120 million during 2019 at that point. (I haven’t verified these numbers myself.)
Yes. The post Drowning children are rare seemed to be saying that OPP was capable of making most EA donations unimportant. I’m arguing that we should reject that conclusion, even if many of that post’s points are correct.
It doesn’t look like OPP completely overshadows individual EA donations.
For a rough idea of scale, OPP made grants totalling ~$50-100 million (EDIT: corrected by Stefan to ~$120-170 million) in each of 2018 and 2019, and ~3,500 people took the EA survey in 2018. To match OPP, they would need to donate $14K-30K per survey respondent per year. Of course, they wouldn’t have to match OPP; I think it’s feasible for individual EAs to get within 5% of OPPs grants, e.g. if ~1000 EAs donated ~$5,000 per year on average.
For the subsample they looked at from those 3,500, the median amount donated in 2017 was ~$700, the mean was ~$10,000, and the total was ~$18 million, with a maximum of $5 million from one respondent.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SnE9FpArs2uXJsRtB/ea-survey-2018-series-donation-data
Also, the four EA funds each make grants totalling > $1 million per year, so > $4 million per year altogether.
It says in the May 2019 EA London Newsletter that Open Philanthropy Project granted over $170 million in 2018. It also says that they had made grants totalling almost $120 million during 2019 at that point. (I haven’t verified these numbers myself.)
Yes. The post Drowning children are rare seemed to be saying that OPP was capable of making most EA donations unimportant. I’m arguing that we should reject that conclusion, even if many of that post’s points are correct.