有效利他主义运动已吸引创纪录的资金流入。2025年，经「Giving What We Can」认定的「有效捐赠」慈善机构共获得约20亿美元捐款，来自8万名捐赠者，较前一年的12亿美元大幅增长，更远超2018年不到3亿美元的水平。受益组织包括虾类福利计划（Shrimp Welfare Project）等，该组织2024至2025年度筹集了220万英镑。然而，EA强调量化不同公益事业价值的做法长期以来引发争议，批评者认为这将道德选择简化为数学计算，并将资金集中于狭隘的优先领域。
对于与EA理念一致的组织而言，当前的挑战在于预期中的AI财富浪潮能否真正实现，以及如何有效部署这些资金。Founders Pledge的戈德堡指出，涌入的资金规模可能很快超出许多组织的承接能力。AI安全领域的研究者基德也表示，目前技术性AI安全领域的主要瓶颈并非资金不足，而是拨款评估能力和专案扩展能力的限制。EA领袖们强调，运动决心避免重蹈FTX事件的覆辙，确保每一分钱都花在刀刃上。
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.