有效利他主義運動已吸引創紀錄的資金流入。2025年，經「Giving What We Can」認定的「有效捐贈」慈善機構共獲得約20億美元捐款，來自8萬名捐贈者，較前一年的12億美元大幅增長，更遠超2018年不到3億美元的水平。受益組織包括蝦類福利計畫（Shrimp Welfare Project）等，該組織2024至2025年度籌集了220萬英鎊。然而，EA強調量化不同公益事業價值的做法長期以來引發爭議，批評者認為這將道德選擇簡化為數學計算，並將資金集中於狹隘的優先領域。
對於與EA理念一致的組織而言，當前的挑戰在於預期中的AI財富浪潮能否真正實現，以及如何有效部署這些資金。Founders Pledge的戈德堡指出，湧入的資金規模可能很快超出許多組織的承接能力。AI安全領域的研究者基德也表示，目前技術性AI安全領域的主要瓶頸並非資金不足，而是撥款評估能力和專案擴展能力的限制。EA領袖們強調，運動決心避免重蹈FTX事件的覆轍，確保每一分錢都花在刀刃上。
The AI boom is minting a new class of ultra-wealthy philanthropists who are breathing fresh life into the effective altruism movement, which had been tarnished by its association with convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX. More than 60 current and former employees of Anthropic have pledged to donate at least 10 per cent of their income through the Giving What We Can platform, while the company's seven co-founders—each worth an estimated $8 billion—have committed to giving away 80 per cent of their wealth. Both Anthropic and OpenAI, whose executives also have ties to EA, have filed paperwork for IPOs seeking valuations above $1 trillion.
The movement is already seeing record funding, with donations to charities classified as effective giving reaching approximately $2 billion in 2025 from 80,000 donors, a sharp rise from $1.2 billion a year earlier and under $300 million in 2018. Beneficiaries include organisations such as the Shrimp Welfare Project, which raised £2.2 million in 2024–25. Yet EA's approach of quantifying philanthropic impact remains controversial: critics like Amy Schiller argue it reduces complex moral choices to utilitarian calculations and funnels resources into a narrow set of priorities, while the philosophy of earning to give and longtermism have drawn additional scrutiny.
For EA-aligned organisations, the key challenge now is whether the anticipated wave of AI-generated wealth will materialise and whether they can absorb and deploy it effectively. Industry figures warn that the sheer scale of incoming funds may quickly exceed many organisations' capacity to spend wisely, with the main bottleneck being not money but grantmakers' bandwidth and founders' ability to scale operations. In the wake of FTX, movement leaders emphasise a renewed commitment to rigorous due diligence and responsible stewardship, determined to ensure that every dollar of AI-derived philanthropy delivers genuine, measurable impact.