Even when that’s true, the org could specify all the other sources of funding, and separate out ‘anonymous donations’ into either one big slice or one-slice-per-donor.
I think this dynamic is generally overstated, at least in the existential risk space that I work in. I’ve personally asked all of our medium and large funders for permission, and the vast majority of them have given permission. Most of the funding comes from Open Philanthropy and SFF, both of which publicly announce all of their grants—when recipients decided not to list those funders, it’s not because the funders don’t want them to. There are many examples of organizations with high funding transparency, including BERI (which I run), ACE, and MIRI (transparency page and top contributors page).
This is ideal, yet many funders individual or otherwise either probably this or would rather you didn’t. Maybe even most.
I think this is as good idea, but less important than many other factors about organisations.
Even when that’s true, the org could specify all the other sources of funding, and separate out ‘anonymous donations’ into either one big slice or one-slice-per-donor.
Yep! Something like this is probably unavoidable, and it’s what all of my examples below do (BERI, ACE, and MIRI).
I think this dynamic is generally overstated, at least in the existential risk space that I work in. I’ve personally asked all of our medium and large funders for permission, and the vast majority of them have given permission. Most of the funding comes from Open Philanthropy and SFF, both of which publicly announce all of their grants—when recipients decided not to list those funders, it’s not because the funders don’t want them to. There are many examples of organizations with high funding transparency, including BERI (which I run), ACE, and MIRI (transparency page and top contributors page).
That makes sense I was talking about my global health and development space only.