{"id":153,"date":"2014-08-05T17:58:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T17:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/80000hours.org\/?page_id=153"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:34:28","slug":"donors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/about\/donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Our donors"},"content":{"rendered":"

We very much appreciate all the financial support that we receive from our donors.<\/p>\n

As of May 2024, we had received around \u00a330.9 million in donations from individual philanthropists, grantmakers, and foundations. Our largest donor is Coefficient Giving<\/a>, whose mission is to help others as much as possible with the resources available. Their main funders are Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook and Asana.<\/p>\n

We haven’t accepted any donations from corporations in exchange for promotion.<\/p>\n

To see our income and expenses to date in more detail, please see the financial report in our latest accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in donating, find out more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We also appreciate the non-financial support we’ve received from many other people and organisations<\/a> over the years.<\/p>\n

The people and organisations below have donated over \u00a325,000 to 80,000 Hours.<\/p>\n

Donation record<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Donation bracket
\n(Total across years donated)<\/b><\/th>\n		Donor<\/b><\/th>\nYears donated<\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Over \u00a320 million<\/td>\nCoefficient Giving<\/a><\/td>\n2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a31 million \u2013 2 million<\/td>\nAn anonymous donor<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a3400,000 \u2013 1 million<\/td>\nLaidir Foundation<\/td>\n2024, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, pre-2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
80,000 Hours staff members, via salary sacrifice <\/td>\n2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EA Infrastructure Fund<\/a><\/td>\n2020, 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Luke Ding<\/td>\n2019, 2018, 2017, pre-2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ben Delo<\/td>\nPre-2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Several anonymous donors<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a3100,000 \u2013 400,000<\/td>\nJaan Tallinn<\/td>\n2024, 2019, 2017, pre-2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Giving What We Can<\/a> supporters<\/td>\n2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Casey & Family Foundation<\/td>\n2019, 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alex Gordon-Brown and Denise Melchin<\/td>\n2018, 2017, pre-2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative <\/a> (Support Fund) <\/a> <\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Long-Term Future Fund<\/a><\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sam Bankman-Fried<\/td>\nPre-2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Several anonymous donors<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a350,000 \u2013 100,000<\/td>\nDouble Up Drive<\/a><\/td>\n2022, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Founders Pledge<\/a> members<\/td>\n2021, 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alameda Research <\/td>\n2019, 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kit Harris<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frederick Mulder Foundation<\/td>\nPre-2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Several anonymous donors<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a325,000 \u2013 50,000<\/td>\nEffektiv Spenden <\/a> supporters<\/td>\n2024, 2022, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Barnes<\/td>\n2021, pre-2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tim Reynolds<\/td>\nPre-2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patrick Brinich-Langlois<\/td>\nPre-2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Y Combinator<\/td>\nPre-2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Several anonymous donors<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Note that this table only lists donors who gave over \u00a325,000.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to know more about our donors or fundraising efforts<\/a>, please reach out to jess@80000hours.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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