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If I were a talented but broke EA, I would try to convince my mom to invest the money in me, since that would make me a more effective philanthropist faster.
A lot of people here argue that microdonations make a large whole, but I'm not sure they're applying probabilistic reasoning to a huge amount of donations actually happening. Or maybe the donation is huge, what do I know.
He's not making any money, so his mother probably does already finance him in a way where he doesn't need to make money to pay for living expenses.
Beyond that point it not always easy to buy further effectiveness. It might be the most effective route if he focuses most of his energy on his coding bootcamp instead of spending money to pursue other roads.
Either that or he has savings. Talent and coding skills plus money sounds like a startup to me.