Just curious; do you have a rough idea of how much more money you would have been comfortable granting, if you would have had more? These projects seem quite good to me, but I imagine that many could have absorbed more funding.
Thanks for the question. All the grantees except the EA survey have funding gaps greater than our grants. Honestly it’s really hard to give an estimate for this quickly as we didn’t review all of the options to the same level (as we knew we only had $X to grant). Of the smaller orgs that applied I think somewhere between $200k and $1m, but if we include the orgs with run-rates over $500k pa then this number gets much bigger.
Thanks for the response, that’s roughly in line with what I expected. I guess this seems like an obvious example of an EA area with a funding gap, and a counterargument to the occasional “we have all the money we could want” claim.
Thanks for the update!
Just curious; do you have a rough idea of how much more money you would have been comfortable granting, if you would have had more? These projects seem quite good to me, but I imagine that many could have absorbed more funding.
Thanks for the question. All the grantees except the EA survey have funding gaps greater than our grants. Honestly it’s really hard to give an estimate for this quickly as we didn’t review all of the options to the same level (as we knew we only had $X to grant). Of the smaller orgs that applied I think somewhere between $200k and $1m, but if we include the orgs with run-rates over $500k pa then this number gets much bigger.
Thanks for the response, that’s roughly in line with what I expected. I guess this seems like an obvious example of an EA area with a funding gap, and a counterargument to the occasional “we have all the money we could want” claim.