I recently noticed that my expectations of what various organisations are spending are way off, so I tried to gather some data.
This excludes money moved through the organisation but re-granted outside of it. For organisations that did not have a more recent budget, I graphed their historical trends between publicly available budgets, and assumed that fundraising targets would be hit at the organisation’s mid-level.
Happy to correct any of these if anyone can link to more updated data!
EA Organisations budget size
I recently noticed that my expectations of what various organisations are spending are way off, so I tried to gather some data.
This excludes money moved through the organisation but re-granted outside of it. For organisations that did not have a more recent budget, I graphed their historical trends between publicly available budgets, and assumed that fundraising targets would be hit at the organisation’s mid-level.
Happy to correct any of these if anyone can link to more updated data!
Data/sources—all numbers normed for 2024
Centre for effective altruism $30 million - $28m in 2022, events ~$10m, EA forum ~$2m
GiveWell $28 million—extrapolated from historical planned budgets e.g. $25.4 million in 2023
80,000 hours $15.5 million (the number they published is excluding marketing, and I could not find numbers for the marketing budget)
Rethink priorities $11 million—see comments (initial estimate was extrapolated from $7.5 million in 2022 + the medium growth estimate)
Founders pledge $7 million—extrapolated from the trends of $4m in 2020 to 2021 $5.6m
Metaculus $2.75 million—extrapolated that this $5m grant is over 2 years
Lightcone/Lesswrong $3.7 million
Giving what we can $2 million
Charity Entrepreneurship $2 million—extrapolated from $1.62 million in 2023
Animal charity evaluators $1.5 million (not including regranting)
Manifold markets $1 million
Happier lives institute $0.55 million—currently operating on the lean budget, see their most recent fundraising post
One For The World $0.6 million—extrapolated from $0.5m in 2022
Probably good - $0.5 million—extrapolated from $0.3m in 2022