Apologies for the slightly ‘gotcha’ question, but would you mind talking a little about why OP isn’t funding these things, or funding them more? From a very naive theoretical perspective it seems like the utility of the marginal dollar to everything OP gives money to should be ~ equal, at least within cause areas.
Many of these recommendations appear here because they are particularly good fits for individual donors. This shouldn’t be seen as a list of our strongest grantees overall (although of course there may be overlap).
Plus, people can have idiosyncratic preferences/weights on some issues, so I wouldn’t expect all recommendations to be equal to each other and to OP’s grant portfolio.
Is it possible to elaborate at all on why they’d be particularly good fits for individual donors? I imagine in many cases the answer is a bit sensitive as to why OP may prefer to fund an org more but the org itself may prefer not to be funded by OP more but instead funded by individual donors. And I certainly can use my own private information to make some of those guesses. But reading this list it’s actually pretty hard to tell what is going on.
Apologies for the slightly ‘gotcha’ question, but would you mind talking a little about why OP isn’t funding these things, or funding them more? From a very naive theoretical perspective it seems like the utility of the marginal dollar to everything OP gives money to should be ~ equal, at least within cause areas.
One reason:
Plus, people can have idiosyncratic preferences/weights on some issues, so I wouldn’t expect all recommendations to be equal to each other and to OP’s grant portfolio.
Is it possible to elaborate at all on why they’d be particularly good fits for individual donors? I imagine in many cases the answer is a bit sensitive as to why OP may prefer to fund an org more but the org itself may prefer not to be funded by OP more but instead funded by individual donors. And I certainly can use my own private information to make some of those guesses. But reading this list it’s actually pretty hard to tell what is going on.