are you sure GW has charities that meet their bar that they aren’t funding as much as they want to? I’m pretty sure that used to not be the case, although maybe it has changed. There’s also value to GW behaving predictably, and not wildly varying how much money it gives to particular orgs from year to year.
This might be begging the question, if the bar is raised due to anticipated under funding. But I’m pretty sure at one point they just didn’t have anywhere they wanted to give more money to, and I don’t know if that has changed.
2023: “We expect to find more outstanding giving opportunities than we can fully fund unless our community of supporters substantially increases its giving.”
Giving Season 2022: “We’ve set a goal of raising $600 million in 2022, but our research team has identified $900 million in highly cost-effective funding gaps. That leaves $300 million in funding gaps unfilled.”
July 2022: “we don’t expect to have enough funding to support all the cost-effective opportunities we find.” Reports rolling over some money from 2021, but much less than originally believed.
Giving Season 2021: GiveWell expects to roll over $110MM, but also believes it will find very-high-impact opportunities for those funds in the next year or two.
Giving Season 2020: No suggestion that GW will run out of good opportunities—“If other donors fully meet the highest-priority needs we see today before Open Philanthropy makes its January grants, we’ll ask Open Philanthropy to donate to priorities further down our list. It won’t give less funding overall—it’ll just fund the next-highest-priority needs.”
are you sure GW has charities that meet their bar that they aren’t funding as much as they want to? I’m pretty sure that used to not be the case, although maybe it has changed. There’s also value to GW behaving predictably, and not wildly varying how much money it gives to particular orgs from year to year.
This might be begging the question, if the bar is raised due to anticipated under funding. But I’m pretty sure at one point they just didn’t have anywhere they wanted to give more money to, and I don’t know if that has changed.
2023: “We expect to find more outstanding giving opportunities than we can fully fund unless our community of supporters substantially increases its giving.”
Giving Season 2022: “We’ve set a goal of raising $600 million in 2022, but our research team has identified $900 million in highly cost-effective funding gaps. That leaves $300 million in funding gaps unfilled.”
July 2022: “we don’t expect to have enough funding to support all the cost-effective opportunities we find.” Reports rolling over some money from 2021, but much less than originally believed.
Giving Season 2021: GiveWell expects to roll over $110MM, but also believes it will find very-high-impact opportunities for those funds in the next year or two.
Giving Season 2020: No suggestion that GW will run out of good opportunities—“If other donors fully meet the highest-priority needs we see today before Open Philanthropy makes its January grants, we’ll ask Open Philanthropy to donate to priorities further down our list. It won’t give less funding overall—it’ll just fund the next-highest-priority needs.”