The criteria I used for making these grants was as follows: (1) Have clear “room for more funding” …
(2) Have a clear risk of not meeting their funding goal…
(3) Clear a bar of being “impactful enough”...represent outstanding opportunities that I think are better than the community average
I am very uninformed about organizations… working on existential risk and far future. My impression, however, is that OpenPhil has done a good job filling up the funding gaps in this area and that there are very few organizations that would meet the criteria I’m using for these recommendations.
I think this says about all that needs to be said about whether this kind of search procedure is likely to yield optimal donation targets!
I think this says about all that needs to be said about whether this kind of search procedure is likely to yield optimal donation targets!
I can’t tell if this comment is positive or negative toward my criteria. Would you mind elaborating?
OP wasnt refering to the orgs he was donating to but a seperate problem domain he doesnt have expertise in.