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.

Lead Policy Advocacy

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 Planning Campaigns

Family Empowerment Media (FEM) is an evidence-driven nonprofit committed to eliminating maternal deaths and other health burdens from unintended pregnancies. FEM produces and airs 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.

Childhood Immunisation Campaigns

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.

African Education Program

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.

Direct Cash Transfers

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.

Mental Health Programs

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

Deworming Program

Sightsavers works on a range of programmes to prevent blindness, advocate for disability rights, and fight neglected tropical diseases. It improves children’s lives and future prospects by treating two neglected tropical diseases — schistosomiasis and intestinal worms — with an intervention sometimes known as “deworming.”

Deworm the World Initiative

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

Deworming Program

Unlimit Health (formerly known as SCI Foundation) works to end parasitic disease globally. To achieve this, Unlimit Health partners with both government ministries of health and affected communities to share evidence and expertise to end preventable parasitic infections and build resilient systems for good health.

Dispensers for Safe Water

Dispensers for Safe Water distributes chlorine dispensers in low-income communities to treat water so that it’s safe to drink.

Iodine Deficiency Prevention

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.

Wellbeing Programs

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

Deworming Program

The END Fund supports country-led programs that control and eliminate intestinal worms, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, river blindness, trachoma, and visceral leishmaniasis. This includes delivering NTD treatments to children and adults, providing surgeries to prevent blindness and disability, and training healthcare workers in the hardest-to-reach communities to promote long-term sustainability.

Media Health Campaigns

Development Media International creates evidence-based radio, television, and video campaigns to change behaviours and improve health outcomes in low-income countries.

Project Healthy Children

Sanku-Project Healthy Children works with small and medium level millers in East Africa to fortify the most commonly consumed staple food (flour) with vitamins and minerals to end malnutrition in Africa.

by GiveWell

GiveWell's Unrestricted Fund is the maximally flexible way to support GiveWell and its grantmaking. The Fund may support any GiveWell priority — including grants to high-impact programs and GiveWell’s operations.

Human Wellbeing Research and Advocacy

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

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.

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.

Alternative Protein Field Building

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.

Animal Welfare Research

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.

Wild Animal Welfare Research and Field Building

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.

Fish Welfare Advocacy

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.

Cage-Free Transition Support

Global Food Partners works with leading food corporations and egg producers in Asia to support their transition to higher-welfare cage-free egg sourcing and production.

Animal Advocacy Africa

Animal Advocacy Africa works to empower animal advocates who are (interested in) doing work to reduce farmed animal suffering in African countries. AAA shares knowledge, provides connections, and helps advocates build the skills to run an impactful animal advocacy organisation.

Global Food Systems Change

ProVeg is a global food awareness organisation with the mission to reduce global animal consumption by 50% by the year 2040.

Animal Charity Evaluations

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.

by Founders Pledge

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

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.

by Longview Philanthropy

The Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund directs funding to projects aimed at reducing the probability of large-scale nuclear warfare.

Biosecurity Program

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.

AI Safety Research and Field Building

CHAI (a multi-institution research group based at UC Berkeley) aims to shift the development of AI away from potentially dangerous systems we could lose control over, and towards provably safe systems that act in accordance with human interests even as they become increasingly powerful.

Pandemic Prevention Program

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

Future Generations Policy

The Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Future Generations raises awareness and facilitates cross-party dialogue on long-term policy issues. The APPG for Future Generations engages policymakers on topics such as combating political short-termism and mitigating global catastrophic risks.

Nuclear Weapons Policy

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

Nuclear Information Project

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

Longtermism Research

Rethink Priorities’ Existential Security 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.

AI Governance Field Building

GovAI’s mission is to build a global research community dedicated to helping humanity navigate the transition to a world with advanced AI.

by Center on Long-Term Risk

The Center on Long-Term Risk Fund supports promising projects and individuals that are working to build a global community of researchers and professionals dedicated to reducing involuntary suffering due to emerging technologies.

High-Impact Careers Support

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

Global Priorities Research

The Forethought Foundation for global priorities research aims to promote and communicate academic and non-academic work that addresses the question of how to use our scarce resources to improve the world by as much as possible.

GCR Reduction Field Building

The Global Catastrophic Risk Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that evaluates threats to human civilisation and researches potential solutions.

Resilient Food Solutions

ALLFED works to make the world’s food supplies resilient to global catastrophes through research and alliance building.

AI Safety Research

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute is a nonprofit research organisation dedicated to ensuring the safety of advanced artificial intelligence.

GCR Reduction Field Building and Advocacy

Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance (SI) works to mitigate global catastrophic risks, building on Herbert Simon's vision of future-oriented policymaking. With a focus on fostering international cooperation, the organisation centres its efforts on the multilateral system.

Effective Giving Research and Advocacy

Longview Philanthropy connects the world’s leading philanthropists with outstanding opportunities to protect future generations.

AI Safety Research and Field Building

The Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) works to address worst-case risks from the development and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence systems, with a current focus on conflict scenarios and the technical and philosophical aspects of cooperation.

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.

by Giving Green

Giving Green is a team of climate scientists, economists, and impact evaluation experts with decades of experience working at the intersection of evidence-based policy and the environment. The Giving Green Fund strategically supports its recommended high-impact giving opportunities.

Climate Research & Advocacy

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.

Clean Energy Innovation

Terra Praxis is a nonprofit that innovates and accelerates scalable, equitable solutions for unsolved areas of the climate challenge. It focuses on the difficult-to-decarbonise sectors of coal-for-power, industrial heat, and heavy transport.

Climate Policy Campaigns

Evergreen Collaborative works to put bold climate action at the top of America's agenda. It’s building the ambitious, actionable policy roadmap for an all-out mobilisation to defeat climate change.

Decarbonisation Advocacy and Field Building

Industrious Labs develops advocacy campaigns to clean up industry. It builds networks of advocates, community leaders, and organisations to put industrial emissions on a path to decarbonise by 2045.

Nuclear Energy Policy Research & Development

Good Energy Collective is a women-led, worker self-directed policy nonprofit that is advancing community-centred, equitable policies for nuclear energy.

Cleantech Innovation Research

Future Cleantech Architects is a cleantech innovation think tank based in Germany that focuses on high-impact research and development, targeting technologies that carry the potential to drive down greenhouse gas emissions disproportionately.

Effective Giving Research & Advocacy

Giving Green is a research and advocacy initiative promoting cost-effective giving to fight climate change through public guides for donors, businesses, and investors.