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| 2019 || {{dts|December}} || Financial || MIRI's 2019 fundraiser raises $601,120 from over 259 donors. A retrospective blog post on the fundraiser, published February 2020, discusses possible reasons the fundraiser raised less money than fundraisers in previous years, particularly 2017. Reasons include: lower cryptocurrency prices causing fewer donations from cryptocurrency donors, nondisclosed-by-default policy making it harder for donors to evaluate research, US tax law changes in 2018 causing more donation-bunching across years, fewer counterfactual matching opportunities, donor perception of reduced marginal value of donations, skew in donations from a few big donors, previous donors moving from earning-to-give to direct work, and donors responding to MIRI's urgent need for funds in previous years by donating in those years and having less to donate now.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://intelligence.org/2020/02/13/our-2019-fundraiser-review/|title = Our 2019 Fundraiser Review|date = February 13, 2020|accessdate = April 19, 2020|author = Colm Ó Riain|publisher = Machine Intelligence Research Institute}}</ref>
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| 2020 || {{dts|February}} || Financial || The Open Philanthropy Project grants $7,703,750 to MIRI with the money amount determined by the Committee for Effective Altruism Support (CEAS). Other organizations receiving money based on CEAS recommendations at around the same time are Ought (also focused on AI safety), the Centre for Effective Altruism , and 80,000 Hours.<ref name="donations-portal-open-phil-ai-safety">{{cite web |url=https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donor.php?donor=Open+Philanthropy+Project&cause_area_filter=AI+safety |title=Open Philanthropy Project donations made (filtered to cause areas matching AI risk) |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref>
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