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Founder of Ultra Philanthropy, an independent advisory that helps major donors - increasingly from tech and AI - give for maximum impact; fund manager of its mid-stage global health fund; Chair of Trustees at High Impact Athletes. Substack at fundinganthropalypse.com.

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Founder of Ultra Philanthropy, an independent advisory that helps major donors - increasingly from tech and AI - give for maximum impact; fund manager of its mid-stage global health fund; Chair of Trustees at High Impact Athletes. Substack at fundinganthropalypse.com.

Coefficient Giving just gave GiveWell $1 billion. Where should other donors give now?

Linkpost for my Substack piece, lightly adapted. Disagreement very welcome. What happened Coefficient Giving (cG) announced a $1 billion gift to GiveWell on 23rd July. This increases a previous commitment of $175m for 2026. cG say this could be a one-off surge, but it has implications for other donors either...

Two Coefficient Givings beat one twice as big

Why the AI windfall should build new grantmakers, not just bigger ones Originally published at my Funding Anthropalypse Substack. Imagine you could live in one of two worlds in 2027. In the first, Coefficient Giving is twice as big. In the second, there are two Coefficient Givings of the same...

How (not) to fundraise from Anthropic staff

Adapted from my Substack, Funding Anthropalypse. Short version: for organisations aiming for a share of the coming Anthropic and OpenAI windfall - the $37bn+ that could be in play next year - the way in is to become 'legibly excellent', so the evaluators and donors that frontier lab staff already...