The EA Grants Database is a new site that neatly aggregates grant data from major EA funders who publish individual or total grant information. It is intended to be easy to maintain long term, entirely piggybacking off of existing data that is likely to be maintained. The website data is updated by a script that can be run in seconds, and I anticipate doing this for the foreseeable future.
In creating the website, I tried to make things as clear and straightforward as possible. If your user experience is in any way impaired, I would appreciate hearing from you. I would also appreciate feedback on what features would actually be useful to people, although I am committed to avoiding bloat.
In a funding landscape that seems poised to grow, I hope this site can serve as a resource to help grantmakers, grantees, and other interested parties make decisions while also providing perspective on what has come before.
My post on matching credits and this website are both outgrowths of my thinking on how we might best financially coordinate as EA grows and becomes more difficult to understand.[1] Relatedly, I am also interested in the sort of mechanisms that might allow donors to express patience and satisfy their CEV while still taking advantage of the returns to scale that funds and large grantmakers provide.[2] If this sounds interesting to you, I am attending EAG SF, and I would love to meet.
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This website was also inspired by this post.
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I am aware that it is already possible to invest and make donation decisions for as long as you live. I believe there are coordination benefits from being able to legibly commit resources, even if their usage is governed by a set of rules that makes them unlikely to be used in the present or near future. Death and severe mental decline are also limiting factors without advanced coordination.
