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Thanks for donating towards longevity research!
For future donations, I might consider donating directly to medical research targeted at aging, like the SENS Research Foundation. Political donations seem to be high variance, with a sizable amount of the potential value actually being negative, because good ideas that get associated with 'bad' people become bad ideas (politically, at least). Consider the satellite Gore proposed to monitor the Earth's climate from the L1 point; it was ready to launch by 2003, but sat ignored in a warehouse possibly because of animosity of the Bush administration towards Gore.
Likewise, we don't want any longevity institutes at the NIH to be like the NCCIH. A firm scientific backing and ongoing research with successes along the way will likely go farther than political fiat.
If I will donate to any actual research organisation I would do it for Buck institute. But general luck of donations to any of such organisation mean that the cause is not well enough popularized.
Interesting, I'm curious why--it looks to me like they're adequately funded for the foreseeable future. Do you think their research plan is better / their prestige is higher / something else?
What does "adequately funded" mean in this context? Certainly labs at the Buck Insitute could easily expand in personal or experiments given more money. Importantly, SENS and BI also collaborate, and many SENS grant dollars are awarded to scientists at BI (I don't know the exact numbers, but last time I looked into it, this was the case).
Looking into a little less shallowly, I overestimated the amount of their funding that comes from the Buck Trust Fund, but that amount still seems larger than the total budget of SENS. (I don't think SENS has any permanent support on nearly the same scale.)