“$100,000 bounty for finding >$1M in legal and collaborative corporate donation matching opportunities” by Sam Anschell, Henri Thunberg 🔸, nora ⵣ

[Note: I (the primary author) am writing this entirely in a personal capacity. Funding for the bounty and donations mentioned in this post comes entirely from personal savings and the generosity of friends and family. Colleagues at Open Philanthropy (my employer) reviewed this post at my request, but this project is completely unaffiliated with Open Philanthropy.]

In 2023, GiveWell reported that it received over $250M from more than 30,000 donors, excluding Open Philanthropy. I expect (though haven’t confirmed) that at least $50M of this came from unmatched retail donations, meaning from individuals who don’t work at a company that offers a donation match. I can’t help but hope that there may be some way to offer these donors a source of matching funds that wouldn’t otherwise go toward charitable causes.

Over the last couple of years, friends and I have spent >100 hours looking into potential legal, collaborative [...]

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Outline:

(02:35) Criteria for bounty eligibility

(06:37) How to get in touch about this opportunity

(06:53) Key caveats:

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
May 14th, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/av8GP4c482Q9tmtJu/untitled-draft-pcui

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