Donation shortlist
Favorite Nonprofits
A running list of organizations that look unusually high-leverage,
thoughtful, or worth remembering when deciding where to donate.
Works to improve how science is funded, evaluated, published, and shared so the system rewards rigor, transparency, creativity, and public value.
- Why it is interesting
- Leverage point: better scientific institutions can compound across many fields instead of funding only one downstream problem.
- Status
- Independent 501(c)(3) non-profit
An experimental fund restoring neglected, illegible, or prematurely dismissed research to active circulation.
- Why it is interesting
- Targets orphaned ideas: research can be lost through funding shifts, disciplinary mismatch, language barriers, or being too early for its institution.
- Status
- Experimental research fund
A research institute producing neutral, evidence-grounded data and analysis on the trajectory and impact of artificial intelligence.
- Why it is interesting
- Favorite source for AI investing context: their datasets and trend reports make compute, scaling, and AI infrastructure shifts easier to track.
- Status
- Independent nonprofit research institute
