I donât consider Open Phil to be an example of Earning to Give. My understanding is that basically all of their funding comes from Dustin Moskowitzâs Facebook stock. He completed his work on Facebook before taking the Giving Pledge, so his primary earning activities were not chosen in the spirit of Earning to Give.
Itâs also not clear to me that the EA Funds are examples of EtG. The EA Funds take frequent donations, and my impression is that they have many donors. At least, I donât see any evidence that the donors are purposefully Earning to Give (i.e. that they chose their jobs as a way to maximize earnings with a plan to donate).
Itâs possible that you and I have different definitions of EtG. Markâs post doesnât explicitly define it. Wikipediaâs definition does not seem to include ânormalâ donors who give, say, 10% of their not-super-large income.
These examples might not be critical to your first point, but I think you would need to provide other examples of grantmakers that are more obviously funded by EtG (e.g. by evaluating Matt Wageâs personal grantmaking).
I donât consider Open Phil to be an example of Earning to Give. My understanding is that basically all of their funding comes from Dustin Moskowitzâs Facebook stock. He completed his work on Facebook before taking the Giving Pledge, so his primary earning activities were not chosen in the spirit of Earning to Give.
Itâs also not clear to me that the EA Funds are examples of EtG. The EA Funds take frequent donations, and my impression is that they have many donors. At least, I donât see any evidence that the donors are purposefully Earning to Give (i.e. that they chose their jobs as a way to maximize earnings with a plan to donate).
Itâs possible that you and I have different definitions of EtG. Markâs post doesnât explicitly define it. Wikipediaâs definition does not seem to include ânormalâ donors who give, say, 10% of their not-super-large income.
These examples might not be critical to your first point, but I think you would need to provide other examples of grantmakers that are more obviously funded by EtG (e.g. by evaluating Matt Wageâs personal grantmaking).