Do people know what’s going on with the EA Funds financial position? Some of the graphs look a bit worrying. But I’ve also noticed some (what seem like) inconsistencies, so I suspect that some key data is missing or something.
The following graph seems incorrect. It seems like it just wasn’t updated since Dec 2023. And I’m curious if there really was the ~$2M jump in the LTFF that month.
This has been on the stack to look into for a few weeks. I think we might just take the graphs down until we’re confident they are all accurate. They were broken (and then fixed) after we moved accounting systems, but it looks like they might have broken again.
If it happens to be the case that the numbers of active donors are continuing to go down, I’d of course be quite curious for more discussion in why that is. I think a survey could be useful here, or maybe just a EA Forum Question. Maybe even something to just all potential donors, like, “What are your main reservations?”
The loss of active donors seems like a big deal to me. I’m really curious what’s happening there.
1. Some donors probably just changed targets, for example, to Manifund or other new funds 2. I’m sure some got cynical or disenchanted by the movement or something 3. Maybe some got hurt financially, from FTX / a crypto bust?
> EAIF currently has $3.3M in available funds. So far over 2024 EAIF has made grants worth $1.1M, and I expect this to be around $1.4M by the end of 2024.
So it seems like EAIF at least is in a decent position.
I’m not sure how this coincides with the above numbers though. Just eyeballing it—maybe, while donations in have been low, donations out have been lower, so there’s been a surplus of funding.
Do people know what’s going on with the EA Funds financial position? Some of the graphs look a bit worrying. But I’ve also noticed some (what seem like) inconsistencies, so I suspect that some key data is missing or something.
https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/stats/donations
The following graph seems incorrect. It seems like it just wasn’t updated since Dec 2023. And I’m curious if there really was the ~$2M jump in the LTFF that month.
This has been on the stack to look into for a few weeks. I think we might just take the graphs down until we’re confident they are all accurate. They were broken (and then fixed) after we moved accounting systems, but it looks like they might have broken again.
Thanks for the update!
If it happens to be the case that the numbers of active donors are continuing to go down, I’d of course be quite curious for more discussion in why that is. I think a survey could be useful here, or maybe just a EA Forum Question. Maybe even something to just all potential donors, like, “What are your main reservations?”
The loss of active donors seems like a big deal to me. I’m really curious what’s happening there.
1. Some donors probably just changed targets, for example, to Manifund or other new funds
2. I’m sure some got cynical or disenchanted by the movement or something
3. Maybe some got hurt financially, from FTX / a crypto bust?
Someone pointed me to this blog post by the EA Infrastructure Fund, which I missed.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/PN4FEGt3fjHv8diGo/eaif-isn-t-currently-funding-constrained
> EAIF currently has $3.3M in available funds. So far over 2024 EAIF has made grants worth $1.1M, and I expect this to be around $1.4M by the end of 2024.
So it seems like EAIF at least is in a decent position.
I’m not sure how this coincides with the above numbers though. Just eyeballing it—maybe, while donations in have been low, donations out have been lower, so there’s been a surplus of funding.