How has the EA fund grown over the years? Do you have a sense of what percentage of overall EA Animal Welfare giving is being done through the fund as opposed to direct donations from EAs to orgs? How it is being advertised both within the EA community and outside of it?
You can check the donations made through all the funds on our website. Below I pasted a graph illustrating AWF’s growth over the last three years:
Do you have a sense of what percentage of overall EA Animal Welfare giving is being done through the fund as opposed to direct donations from EAs to orgs?
I’m not aware of any comparison data of that sort, but a couple of sources (mainly EA Survey) may give us some approximate answers.
EA Survey 2019 Series: Donation Data quotes the following amount of donations made by EA community members who filled out the EA Survey. Note however, that $87,385.50 of that amount was donated to EA Animal Welfare Fund.
Out of that following organizations received funding:
ACE 132,222.80
THL 128,012.00
EA Animal Welfare Fund: 87,385.50
GFI 85,778.53
Mercy For Animals: 29,705.96
Those numbers add up to 463,104.79, so something is not right with the data. But it gives us a ballpark number.
Lewis Bollard provided another interesting piece of data in one of his newsletters, where he estimated a Farmed Animal Advocacy Groups and Team’s Revenue by Year. Note however, that those estimates are from 2014 and 2016, so before AWF launched.
Lastly, for comparison data from Lewis Bollard’s newsletter released in 2018 claiming that “Since the start of 2016, the Open Philanthropy Project has approved 82 farm animal welfare grants totaling $47M to 50 grantees in 24 countries.”
Re: the 2019 EA Survey donation data, I think ACE was categorized under Meta? If you take ACE out of that list above the data looks more accurate (~$330k for Animal Welfare).
How has the EA fund grown over the years? Do you have a sense of what percentage of overall EA Animal Welfare giving is being done through the fund as opposed to direct donations from EAs to orgs? How it is being advertised both within the EA community and outside of it?
You can check the donations made through all the funds on our website. Below I pasted a graph illustrating AWF’s growth over the last three years:
I’m not aware of any comparison data of that sort, but a couple of sources (mainly EA Survey) may give us some approximate answers.
EA Survey 2019 Series: Donation Data quotes the following amount of donations made by EA community members who filled out the EA Survey. Note however, that $87,385.50 of that amount was donated to EA Animal Welfare Fund.
Out of that following organizations received funding:
ACE 132,222.80
THL 128,012.00
EA Animal Welfare Fund: 87,385.50
GFI 85,778.53
Mercy For Animals: 29,705.96
Those numbers add up to 463,104.79, so something is not right with the data. But it gives us a ballpark number.
Lewis Bollard provided another interesting piece of data in one of his newsletters, where he estimated a Farmed Animal Advocacy Groups and Team’s Revenue by Year. Note however, that those estimates are from 2014 and 2016, so before AWF launched.
Lastly, for comparison data from Lewis Bollard’s newsletter released in 2018 claiming that “Since the start of 2016, the Open Philanthropy Project has approved 82 farm animal welfare grants totaling $47M to 50 grantees in 24 countries.”
Karolina,
Re: the 2019 EA Survey donation data, I think ACE was categorized under Meta? If you take ACE out of that list above the data looks more accurate (~$330k for Animal Welfare).