Where did you donate this year?

Just shy of $120k, roughly double 2024; something like 40-45% of income. GWWC since 2018.

• 55% GiveWell, almost all to All Grants, in the shadow of USAID cuts.
• 25% to basic science (Science Foundation - nonprofit I helped start; ARCS; specific labs)
• 18% towards climate orgs (Fresh Energy, Silverlining, Clean Air Task Force, Carbon Mapper)
• Remainder to Center for Arms Control & Nonproliferation and rounding errors.

50% of my income for the 11th year to ALLFED.

I donated to Charity Entrepreneurship! I think they have an incredibly high hit rate on a tight budget

Bores, Wiener, and other AI safety in US politics stuff. $129K total, >100% my income.

Shrimp Welfare Project, charities working on insect farming for feed, among others. Currently quite uncertain about the impact of this and may give the remainder of my donation budget to research.

I mostly donated to democracy preservation work and did some political giving. And a little to the shrimp.

Donated to The Life You Can Save's Women and Girls Fund 

In percentages of pretax salary:
* 15% GiveWell
* 3% AI Safety orgs
* 1% Lightcone

I allocated my 10% pledge as follows:

• 50% to Founders Pledge (Global Catastrophic Risks Fund)
• 20% to Animal Charity Evaluators (Movement Grants Program)
• 20% to GiveWell (All Grants Fund)
• 5% to GiveWell (Unrestricted Fund)
• 5% to Giving What We Can (Effective Giving Research & Advocacy)

I donated to AMF because it beat the Humane League in our club donation election :(

I donated ~20% of my income to Shrimp Welfare Project, Arthropoda Foundation, Anima International, Rethink Priorities, Good Food Institute and ACE Recommended Charities fund

$10,000 to Good Ancestors Project - all my post tax income above $59,000 for last financial year.

Between a new job and having finally paid off all my student debt, I'm excited about the next year.

My household's giving this year: ACE Recommended Charity Fund, ACE Movement Grants, ACE, Strong Minds, Friendship Bench, GiveWell Top Charities, Wild Animal Initiative.

Some random warm-glow giving related to friends and family and some smaller EA gifts.

This year I donated to (in decreasing order of amount given):

• The EA Animal Welfare Fund
• Alex Bores's congressional campaign
• Forethought

This year's donations:

$7k to Eleos AI Research (digital minds)
$7k to a new initiative launching soon (digital minds)
$7k to Sentient Futures (animals and AI/digital minds)
$7k to Arthropoda Foundation (insect welfare research)
$5k to Compassion in Machine learning (animals and AI)
$1k to others (Good Ancestors, EAGx)

Feeling thankful was able to increase the amount from last year.

Big thanks for all the folks working on all these projects and the community at large for what you all do!

The Humane League.

UK political animal welfare work

In descending order of amount I have donated to @CEEALAR , the Givewell All Grants Fund (my preferred "default" place to put donations), and the Humane League (something I feel obligated to do as a condition of being vegetarian rather than vegan). The largest donation was basically bankrolling the effective giving organiser retreat I am running at CEEALAR: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/events/HfeSKe7Ekmm9uddLh/effective-giving-organiser-retreat (which still has sign up space, by the way!)

I have also made a few non-effective donations to friends, to organisations I used the services of, or local places I volunteered for and want to see succeed, which are not in my pledge.

CEARCH global health policy fund

Happier Lives Institute, since I have volunteered for them since 2019 and that their work is great. Cool Earth, who I collaborated with last year, and I think basic income for nature and climate is an awesome idea. Giving What We Can, because of their multiplier effect. GiveDirectly, since they won the donation election I had with my public health students and I promised to donate from my own money to the charity of their choice (and I think GiveDirectly is a great organization).

Lightcone and Alex Bores (so far)

Edit: to say a tiny bit more, LessWrong seems instrumentally good and important and rationality is a positive influence on EA. Lightcone doesn't have the vibes of "best charity" to me, but when I imagine my ideal funding distribution it is the immediate example of "most underfunded org" that comes to mind. Obviously related to Coefficient not supporting rationality community building anymore. Remember, we are donating on the margin, and approximately the margin created by Coefficient Giving!

Edit: And Animal Welfare Fund

AMF (1:1 matched through EANZ on top of usual tax advantages), ALLFED and a couple curries to a CB

I donated to (i) ARMoR (https://www.armoramr.org/), because I am convinced about the quality of their cost estimates and believe targeted policy interventions can be fairly tractable; (ii) and also to the Global Health Fund from Ayuda Efectiva (https://ayudaefectiva.org/fondo-salud-global), in part to encourage others to donate.

FarmKind, Anima International, THL UK, SWP, FWI, ACE, RP, The Centre for Feed Innovation, Scale Welfare, Arthropoda, Indonesian Cage-Free Association, Across Species Project Indonesia

MIRI, CAIS policy fund, shrimp welfare, FarmKind

Donated to multiple orgs in AIxAnimals!

• Sentient Futures
• Open paws
• AI safety (Alex bores campaign in NYC)

As well as EA Animal welfare fund, MFA, etc.

Sentient Futures

Happier Lives Institute, GiveDirectly, Cool Earth, Giving What We Can.

Mostly to various projects on AI risk policy and communications, and a smaller portion to GiveWell's recommended charities

Clusterbusters, because torturous pain belongs to the past (especially if it can be easily prevented).

EA Animal Welfare Fund

Helen Keller Europe, Mieux Donner, Against Malaria

EA animal welfare fund

Long term future fund

Community building

EA animal welfare fund

www.bureauburgerberaad.nl

Mostly to Ellis Impact and a little bit to EA Estonia to run their donation plattform Anneta Targalt

With some liberal roundings here and there, I donated: 
50% Farmed animals (mostly through EA Funds)
30% Giving What We Can (mostly thinking it amplifies donations in global health and development, but I'd want to spend a day or two looking into it for real, and if another effective giving multiplier is more effective. The reports are waiting for me...)
10% Climate funds (Founders Pledge and Giving Green)
10% GiveDirectly and GiveWell

Sentience Institute (research on digital minds)

Animal welfare fund

GivingDirectly & StrongMinds <3

EA animal welfare funds, GiveWell all grants fund, and some small, time-sensitive AI safety opportunities, in roughly that order. I'm grateful I get to donate!

Giving What We Can across their Global Health and Wellbeing fund, Effective Animal Advocacy fund and Effective Giving Research & Advocacy fund, and to Rainforest Trust UK.

GiveWell

GiveWell (all grants), GiveDirectly, Malaria Consortium. Pretty small amount in total because I'm a student, but feels good to be getting started a bit!

Centre for Wild Animal Welfare (and the EA Animal Welfare Fund earlier this year)

To the 3 main GWWC funds, GiveDirectly, Lightcone, EA, Wikipedia.

politics, Give Directly, and GiveWell

Center on Long-Term Risk, Rethink Priorities, Fish Welfare Initiative, EA Infrastructure Fund

Bloggers for Shrimp!

The Humane League UK. And earlier, SWP, ACE. 

Through Doneer Effectief, the Netherlands

Forethought