Top Charities Fund

by GiveWell

GiveWell's Top Charities Fund supports the highest-value funding opportunities among its recommended charities, which are those that save or improve lives the most per dollar.

All Grants Fund

by GiveWell

The All Grants Fund supports GiveWell’s grantmaking to high-impact opportunities.

Global Health and Development Fund

by Effective Altruism Funds

The Global Health and Development Fund aims to support funding opportunities that improve the health or economic empowerment of people around the world as effectively as possible.

Unrestricted Fund

by GiveWell

GiveWell's Unrestricted Fund is the maximally flexible way to support GiveWell and its recommendations, as the Fund may support any GiveWell priority — including its grantmaking and its own operating expenses.

Recommended Charity Fund

by Animal Charity Evaluators

Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) Recommended Charity Fund supports the highest-value funding opportunities among its recommended charities, which are those that have the greatest impact helping animals per dollar.

Movement Grants Fund

by Animal Charity Evaluators

The Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) Movement Grants fund promising advocacy projects around the globe working to reduce animal suffering. Applications are accepted annually and grants are determined by a review committee.

Animal Welfare Fund

by Effective Altruism Funds

The Animal Welfare Fund aims to effectively improve the wellbeing of nonhuman animals by making grants that focus on one or more best-in-class opportunities.

Longtermism Fund

by Longview Philanthropy

The Longtermism Fund — managed by Longview Philanthropy — directs funding to highly effective organisations working to safeguard the long-term future of humanity.

Patient Philanthropy Fund

by Founders Pledge

The Patient Philanthropy Fund invests contributions and will deploy funds when they are needed most to safeguard and improve the long-term future.

Long-Term Future Fund

by Effective Altruism Funds

The Long-Term Future Fund aims to positively influence the long-term trajectory of civilisation by making grants that address global catastrophic risks, especially potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence and pandemics.

Climate Change Fund

by Founders Pledge

The Founders Pledge Climate Change Fund supports highly impactful, evidence-based solutions to the “triple challenge” of carbon emissions, air pollution, and energy poverty.

Global Catastrophic Risks Fund

by Founders Pledge

The Founders Pledge Global Catastrophic Risks Fund supports highly impactful solutions to help prevent the most severe global catastrophes.

Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund

by Effective Altruism Funds

The Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund aims to increase the impact of projects that use the principles of effective altruism, by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge.

Incubated Charities Fund

by Charity Entrepreneurship

Charity Entrepreneurship is a research and training programme that incubates multiple effective charities annually. Its Incubated Charities Fund provides seed grant funding for its most promising charities.

Malaria Consortium

Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention

Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme distributes preventative antimalarial drugs to young children during times of peak malaria transmission.

Against Malaria Foundation

Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) works to prevent malaria-caused deaths and illness by distributing long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets in at-risk, low-income communities. The organisation also consistently monitors its impact through surveys and case rate data.

New Incentives

New Incentives distributes conditional cash transfers to encourage caregivers to immunise their infants in rural Nigeria, helping them overcome barriers like the cost of transportation to a clinic and the loss of earnings from missing work.

StrongMinds

StrongMinds is scaling effective depression treatment in sub-Saharan Africa, leveraging existing government and NGO infrastructure to bring proven therapy to its patients’ communities.

Suvita

Suvita sends text message reminders to caregivers in India to remind them to get their children vaccinated. It also builds a network of ambassadors who share information with new parents in their community about local vaccine clinics.

Teaching at the Right Level Africa

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa is a nonprofit organisation that supports governments and organisations across sub-Saharan Africa to effectively apply the evidence-backed TaRL approach to improve foundational skills.

Iodine Global Network

The Iodine Global Network (IGN) is a nonprofit organisation working to ensure all people attain optimal iodine nutrition and children can reach their full cognitive potential.

Helen Keller International

Vitamin A Supplementation

Helen Keller International partners with governments across Africa and Asia to provide millions of children every year with lifesaving vitamin A supplements and other nutrients.

Lead Exposure Elimination Project

Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) drives effective policies to eliminate lead poisoning across the globe. Its current focus is on ending the sale and manufacture of lead paint worldwide.

Family Empowerment Media

Family Empowerment Media (FEM) is an evidence-driven nonprofit committed to eliminating maternal deaths and other health burdens from unintended pregnancies. FEM produces and air radio-based social and behavioural change campaigns on family planning to empower women and men who want to delay or prevent pregnancy to consistently use contraception.

GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that lets donors send money directly to the world’s poorest households. GiveDirectly believes people living in poverty deserve the dignity to choose for themselves how best to improve their lives — cash enables that choice.

Deworm the World Initiative

by Evidence Action

Deworm the World Initiative (DWI), a project of Evidence Action, collaborates with governments to run mass deworming programmes in schools located in at-risk communities.

SCI Foundation

SCI Foundation (formerly known as the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative) works with governments in sub-Saharan African countries to develop effective programmes aimed at eliminating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Its focus is on reducing and treating parasitic worm infections — schistosomiasis and intestinal worms.

Sightsavers

Deworming

Sightsavers works on a range of programmes to prevent blindness, advocate for disability rights, and fight neglected tropical diseases. It aims to control intestinal worms through mass drug administration programmes and local education programmes to improve access to clean water.

END Fund

Deworming

The END Fund raises and provides capital for programmes to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). It also provides technical and strategic support for NGOs, governments, and various stakeholders to advance NTD treatment programmes and delivery.

Action for Happiness

Action for Happiness promotes mental health and wellbeing by providing information, evidence-based resources, public events, educational services, training, and community activities.

Happier Lives Institute

The Happier Lives Institute is a nonprofit research organisation searching for the most effective ways to measure and increase global wellbeing.

The Humane League

The Humane League exists to end the abuse of animals raised for food. It does this by influencing the policies of the world’s biggest companies, demanding legislation, and empowering others to take action and leave animals off their plates.

Faunalytics

Faunalytics maintains the largest database of animal advocacy research, works with animal advocacy organisations on projects to improve their impact, and produces original animal advocacy research.

Good Food Institute

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is an international nonprofit working to improve the food system by developing and promoting plant- and cell-based alternatives to animal products.

Wild Animal Initiative

Wild Animal Initiative (WAI) works to improve wild animal welfare by expanding the field of wild animal research. By conducting its own research and helping support the needs of other wild animal researchers, the organisation aims to garner public and academic interest in wild animal welfare and identify evidence-based solutions to the struggles wild animals face.

Animal Charity Evaluators

Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is dedicated to finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals. With evidence-based research, ACE helps donors, volunteers, and advocates effect positive change.

Fish Welfare Initiative

Fish Welfare Initiative is among the first organisations working to reduce the suffering of farmed fish. It does this by collaborating with industry and policymakers to make changes on fish farms, such as improving water quality and reducing stocking density.

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Biosecurity programme

The Nuclear Threat Initiative's programme on biological risk helps create a better future by reducing the risks of and preparing for potentially catastrophic natural and engineered pandemics.

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (CHS) conducts independent research and analysis aimed at preventing and responding to public health crises.

Rethink Priorities

General Longtermism team

Rethink Priorities’ General Longtermism team is working to cause the greatest expected increase it can to the value of the long-term future. It focuses on research and field building related to reducing existential risks — including the risk of human extinction.

80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours provides research and support to help people switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.

Council on Strategic Risks

Nuclear weapons policy work

The Council on Strategic Risks’ nuclear weapons policy work seeks to analyse and address the development, diffusion, and use of strategic weapons.

Federation of American Scientists

The Federation of American Scientists is a nonprofit policy research and advocacy organisation founded in 1945.

Doneer Effectief

Doneer Effectief (Dutch for "donate effectively") is a nonprofit, independent donation platform that makes effective giving accessible in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Effective Altruism Australia

Effective Altruism Australia supports Australians to find and fix the world's most pressing problems.

The Life You Can Save

The Life You Can Save works to end extreme global poverty through the power of effective giving.

Effektiv Spenden

Effektiv Spenden (German for "donate effectively") is a nonprofit donation platform that promotes effective giving in Germany and Switzerland.

Clean Air Task Force

The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is an international nonprofit that promotes technical and policy change for the climate. CATF values pragmatism and believes all promising options should be explored to prevent catastrophic climate change.

TerraPraxis

TerraPraxis is a nonprofit that innovates and incubates scalable solutions for a livable planet and global prosperity. It focuses on the difficult-to-decarbonise sectors of coal, industrial heat, and heavy transport.

Charity Entrepreneurship

General Support

Charity Entrepreneurship is a research and training programme that incubates multiple effective charities annually.

Rethink Priorities

Rethink Priorities’ mission is to generate the most significant possible impact for others in the present and the long-term future. Using evidence and reason, it identifies where resources would be most effective and helps direct them there. It does this by conducting critical research to inform policymakers and philanthropists, and by guiding the development of new organisations to address key problems.

Founders Pledge

Founders Pledge empowers entrepreneurs to do immense good by conducting rigorous charity research and advising its members on how to maximise their impact through strategic philanthropy.

Giving What We Can

Giving What We Can — the nonprofit organisation behind this website and donation platform — is a community of effective givers. We provide the support, community, and information donors need to do the most good with their charitable donations.