Our donors

We very much appreciate all the financial support that we receive from our donors.

As of November 2022, we had received around £16.3 million in donations from individual philanthropists, grantmakers, and foundations. Our largest donor is Open Philanthropy, whose mission is to help others as much as possible with the resources available to them. Their main funders are Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook and Asana.

We haven’t accepted any donations from corporations in exchange for promotion (though we did receive a $50,000 donation from the partnership Y Combinator to fund our participation in their nonprofit startup acceleration programme).

To see our income and expenses to date in more detail, please see the financial report in our latest accounts.

If you’re interested in donating, find out more.

We also appreciate the non-financial support we’ve received from many other people and organisations over the years.

The people below have donated over £25,000 to 80,000 Hours.

2022 donors

2021 donors

All historical donors

Donation bracket
(Total across years donated)
DonorYears donated
Over £10 millionOpen Philanthropy2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
£400,000 – 1 millionLaidir Foundation2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, pre-2017
EA Infrastructure Fund2020, 2019
Luke Ding2019, 2018, 2017, pre-2017
Ben Delo1
Several anonymous donors
£100,000 – 400,000Jaan Tallinn2019, 2017, pre-2017
The Casey & Family Foundation2019, 2017
Alex Gordon-Brown and Denise Melchin2018, 2017, pre-2017
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (Support Fund) 2019
Long-Term Future Fund2018
Sam Bankman-Fried2Pre-2017
Several anonymous donors
£50,000 – 100,000Double Up Drive2022, 2021
Founders Pledge members2021, 2020
Kit Harris2017
Frederick Mulder Foundation
Several anonymous donors
£25,000 – 50,000Effektiv Spenden supporters2022, 2021
Mark Barnes2021, pre-2017
Tim ReynoldsPre-2017
Patrick Brinich-LangloisPre-2017
Y CombinatorPre-2017
Several anonymous donors

Notes and references

  1. See CEA’s statement about Ben Delo.

  2. See our statement about Sam Bankman-Fried.