Our donors

We greatly appreciate all the support we receive to keep 80,000 Hours running.

The vast majority of our donations come from foundations and individuals, who give because they expect us to have a large social impact by helping people improve the world through their careers.

As of December 2019, we had received about $10 million in donations. Our largest donor is Open Philanthropy, which aims to identify outstanding giving opportunities with a broadly “effective altruism” approach, and whose main funders are Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook and Asana. Our other donors include a second foundation, several large individual philanthropists, as well as to former coaching alumni and members of the effective altruism community who donate 10% or more of their income.

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, and we receive pro bono discounts on purchases from some companies listed here).

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.

Our major supporters

Over £1,000,000

Open Philanthropy

Foundation

Over £400,000

Ben Delo

Entrepreneur

Luke Ding

Investor and philanthropist

Anonymous donor

£100,000 – £400,000

Alex Gordon-Brown and Denise Melchin

Sam Bankman-Fried

Quantitative trader

Jaan Tallinn

Co-founder of Skype, Kazaa, MetaMed

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Foundation


£50,000 – 100,000

Frederick Mulder Foundation

Founder of The Funding Network, art dealer

Kit Harris

Researcher

Patrick Brinich-Langlois

Software engineer

Effective Altruism Meta Fund

Foundation

John Williams

Several anonymous donors


£25,000 – 50,000

Mark Barnes

Director at Wave Transfer Limited UK

Y Combinator

Several anonymous donors