If a charity thinks that its excess cash would be better off with another charity than sitting in its bank account, wouldn’t it just give the cash to another charity? And this is at least as good from the charity’s perspective as letting the original donor decide what to do with the excess funds.
Yes, I premised my argument above (in the comment from August 27) on that not being possible. In Germany I think foundations can forward donations like that, but I think it’s more complicated or only possible in some cases for other types of nonprofits. I just saw online that US 501(c)(3) charities can forward donations under certain conditions that didn’t seem too hard to meet. So if the donor is fine with it, that should be a perfectly cooperative option.
Actually, in the case of Open Phil, such things could be discussed beforehand, and if the charity is up for it and can legally do it, then Open Phil–recommended grants could snowball through the space, saving time on the Open Phil side and possibly even reaching a number of highly effective niche charities that would’ve been too small to warrant Open Phil’s attention.
If a charity thinks that its excess cash would be better off with another charity than sitting in its bank account, wouldn’t it just give the cash to another charity? And this is at least as good from the charity’s perspective as letting the original donor decide what to do with the excess funds.
Yes, I premised my argument above (in the comment from August 27) on that not being possible. In Germany I think foundations can forward donations like that, but I think it’s more complicated or only possible in some cases for other types of nonprofits. I just saw online that US 501(c)(3) charities can forward donations under certain conditions that didn’t seem too hard to meet. So if the donor is fine with it, that should be a perfectly cooperative option.
Actually, in the case of Open Phil, such things could be discussed beforehand, and if the charity is up for it and can legally do it, then Open Phil–recommended grants could snowball through the space, saving time on the Open Phil side and possibly even reaching a number of highly effective niche charities that would’ve been too small to warrant Open Phil’s attention.