> Money is our biggest bottleneck for right now. Across everything we want to do, the core reason we can’t do more of it is not having enough money.
This suggested to me that I should consider donating to RP. Would donations from small donors be true counterfactual donations, or would they be more likely to displace expected grants from big funders?
For this kind of reason, I would be interested to hear more about where your funding comes from currently. I couldn’t determine this from the ‘transparency’ page on your website; it would seem good to add something about it on there!
Donations from small donors would be true counterfactual donations as we don’t expect to raise from institutional funders all the money we would be able to productively spend. Given our size, institutional funders often expect us to raise a decent portion of our money from individual donors.
For transparency, in 2022 we raised $10,693,023.74. It came:
40% from Open Philanthropy
4% from EA Funds
29% as donations / gifts from other foundations and institutions not named OP or EA Funds
18% from individuals giving over $100K
6% from us providing direct services to entities other than OP
3% from individuals giving under $100K.
My guess is importantly we will raise less money in 2023, which is unfortunate.
(Caveat: Our COO who normally does fundraising figures is out on vacation so I pulled these numbers from our database myself so it’s possible I made a mistake.)
I counted them as individuals when the DAF donation was orchestrated by a single person who is not employed by an institution to do grantmaking, which IIRC is the vast majority (if not 100%) of our DAF donations.
> Money is our biggest bottleneck for right now. Across everything we want to do, the core reason we can’t do more of it is not having enough money.
This suggested to me that I should consider donating to RP. Would donations from small donors be true counterfactual donations, or would they be more likely to displace expected grants from big funders?
For this kind of reason, I would be interested to hear more about where your funding comes from currently. I couldn’t determine this from the ‘transparency’ page on your website; it would seem good to add something about it on there!
Donations from small donors would be true counterfactual donations as we don’t expect to raise from institutional funders all the money we would be able to productively spend. Given our size, institutional funders often expect us to raise a decent portion of our money from individual donors.
For transparency, in 2022 we raised $10,693,023.74. It came:
40% from Open Philanthropy
4% from EA Funds
29% as donations / gifts from other foundations and institutions not named OP or EA Funds
18% from individuals giving over $100K
6% from us providing direct services to entities other than OP
3% from individuals giving under $100K.
My guess is importantly we will raise less money in 2023, which is unfortunate.
(Caveat: Our COO who normally does fundraising figures is out on vacation so I pulled these numbers from our database myself so it’s possible I made a mistake.)
Do you know if donor advised funds (not affiliated with OP) are counted as other foundations and institutions or as individuals?
I counted them as individuals when the DAF donation was orchestrated by a single person who is not employed by an institution to do grantmaking, which IIRC is the vast majority (if not 100%) of our DAF donations.