Vipul Naik Donations Database

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A database tracking public donations by individuals and organizations in the effective altruism and AI safety space, useful for understanding funding flows to AI safety organizations and related causes.

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Summary

The Donations List Website (DLW) is an open-source database and web application tracking public donations made by selected individuals and organizations, including major EA and AI safety funders. It aggregates donation data into a searchable interface, enabling analysis of philanthropic funding patterns. The database includes donations from private foundations and individuals, with similarity analysis features.

Key Points

•Tracks public donations by individuals and organizations arbitrarily selected by the maintainer, with a focus on EA-adjacent donors
•Includes data on donations from private foundations and individual donors, with separate display modes for each
•Open-source MySQL-backed database with a PHP web frontend, available at donations.vipulnaik.com
•Enables analysis of funding flows to AI safety, EA, and related cause areas through aggregated donation data
•Includes similarity analysis features to identify patterns across donors and donees

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 Donations list website (DLW)

 
 Available at https://donations.vipulnaik.com but still in beta!

 Note that the passwordFile.inc file in access-portal/backend/globalVariables is excluded from the Git repository, but you can see a corresponding dummy password file at dummyPasswordFile.inc .

 Setting up

 
 From the shell run (note this will create and read into a donations database,
so be careful if you already have a database with that name):

 make init && make read && make reset_similarity
 
 If you need to pass in arguments to mysql , use the MYSQL_ARGS variable:

 make read MYSQL_ARGS="-u user -psecret"
 
 After modifying the SQL instructions, use reset to drop the tables:

 make reset && make read
 
 Once the database is ready, you can run the site locally:

 cp access-portal/backend/globalVariables/{dummyPasswordFile.inc,passwordFile.inc}
vi access-portal/backend/globalVariables/passwordFile.inc # change to add database login info
cd access-portal
php -S localhost:8000
 
 Now you can visit http://localhost:8000/index.php in your browser.

 To show the similarity table, the values must be precomputed. To do that, first
run (this only needs to be run once):

 make reset_similarity
 
 Then 

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