Would OPP and the EA Funds grant more funding overall if new EA orgs are started or do they distribute a fixed amount of funding? New EA orgs will create more positions for EAs to fill.
This also seems right to me. We roughly try to distribute all the money we have in a given year (with some flexibility between rounds), and aren’t planning to hold large reserves. So from just our decisions we couldn’t ramp up our grantmaking because better opportunities arise.
However, I can imagine donations to us increasing if better opportunities arise, so I do expect there to be at least some effect.
Would OPP and the EA Funds grant more funding overall if new EA orgs are started or do they distribute a fixed amount of funding? New EA orgs will create more positions for EAs to fill.
It looks like EA Funds distributes a roughly fixed amount (based on their own fundraising) whereas I imagine OpenPhil is more flexible.
This also seems right to me. We roughly try to distribute all the money we have in a given year (with some flexibility between rounds), and aren’t planning to hold large reserves. So from just our decisions we couldn’t ramp up our grantmaking because better opportunities arise.
However, I can imagine donations to us increasing if better opportunities arise, so I do expect there to be at least some effect.