Putting the AI Windfall to Work

The AI boom could result in anywhere from $50 billion to $100 billion in annual philanthropic spending over the next few years. The question is, how can this money be spent effectively? A new blog series from CGD makes the case for highly cost-effective areas that philanthropists may want to consider.

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We Can Spend $50 Billion a Year Effectively
Rachel Glennerster
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Leah R. Rosenzweig
July 27, 2026
On a recent trip to the Bay Area, many people we met shared the same concern: how can we effectively spend the wave of new philanthropic funding which is about to hit? Which organizations can absorb this amount of money? Nan Ransohoff estimates a “third wave of American philanthropy” will generate $...
hands counting money while another hand is holding a digital point of sales machine