NTI's Global Biological Policy and Programs seeks to transform global security by driving systemic solutions to biological threats imperiling humanity.

Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity programme

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. Donating to this program supports our core operations.

Giving What We Can

HIA's Environmental Portfolio supports effective climate initiatives and global food system improvements by channeling donations across a curated selection of impactful environmental charities as recommended by High Impact Athletes' expert advisors.

High Impact Athletes’ Environmental Portfolio 

The Global Health & Development Fund seeks to significantly improve the lives of the most vulnerable people by granting to high-impact projects working on global health and development.

Founders Pledge: Global Health and Development Catalytic Impact Fund

AMF's bed net programs protect people from malaria by distributing and ensuring the use of long-lasting insecticidal bednets in regions with the highest burden of malaria cases.

Against Malaria Foundation  — Bednets To Prevent Malaria

GiveDirectly improves the wellbeing of people living in poverty and affirms their dignity by sending cash directly to the world’s poorest households and letting them choose for themselves how best to spend it to improve their lives.

GiveDirectly

Family Empowerment Media aims to reduce maternal deaths and other health burdens related to unintended pregnancies by enabling informed contraceptive decisions through educational media campaigns

Family Empowerment Media

Helen Keller Intl's Vitamin A Supplementation program Improves child health and survival rates by partnering with governments across Africa to deliver lifesaving vitamin A supplements and complementary activities to millions of children annually.

Helen Keller Intl— Vitamin A supplementation programme

The Top Charities Fund seeks to improve global health and well-being by supporting the highest-priority funding needs among GiveWell's Top Charities, which are evidence-backed, high-impact, and highly cost-effective opportunities to save and improve the lives of people living in low- and lower-middle-income countries. See how GiveWell is responding to the US funding freeze.

GiveWell: Top Charities Fund

The Risks and Resilience Fund directs funding to highly effective organisations working to reduce global catastrophic risks. Currently, the research team plans to allocate the fund's budget based on the findings of our upcoming evaluator research. See this fund's past grant rounds.

Risks and Resilience Fund

The Center on Long-Term Risk AI Safety Research and Field Building program addresses worst-case AI risks through research, identifying grants, and field building.

Center on Long-Term Risk

Animal Advocacy Africa aims to strengthen animal welfare in Africa by empowering local animal advocacy organizations and individual advocates with skills, knowledge, and resources to effectively mitigate the rise of intensive farming practices and enhance farmed animal wellbeing.

Animal Advocacy Africa

The Patient Philanthropy Fund seeks to grow the available resources to reduce existential risk by acting as an "emergency fund" for safeguarding the long-term future of humanity -- investing contributions and waiting to deploy them until exceptional opportunities appear and funds are needed most. 

Founders Pledge: Patient Philanthropy Fund

The Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention program protects children from malaria by distributing preventative medication at times of high transmission.

Malaria Consortium — Seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme

THL's corporate campaigns program promotes farmed animal welfare through industry pressure and advocacy 

The Humane League (Corporate campaign programs)

Unlimit Health prevents parasitic infection by partnering with ministries of health in sub-Saharan Africa to support cost-effective schistosomiasis deworming programs.

Unlimit Health (formerly SCI Foundation)

The Climate Change Fund aims to address climate change by supporting highly impactful, evidence-based solutions to the “triple challenge” of carbon emissions, air pollution, and energy poverty.

Founders Pledge: Climate Change Fund

80,000 Hours facilitates high-impact careers by providing research and support to help people switch into careers that effectively tackle the world's most pressing problems.

80,000 Hours

Forethought enables humanity to successfully navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems by conducting and disseminating research on neglected topics.

Forethought — Superintelligent AI Transitions Research

The Transformative AI Fund aims to help humanity reduce the risk of catastrophe and navigate the transition to advanced AI well by providing fast, early-stage funding to new projects, individuals, or organisations.

Effective Altruism Funds: Transformative AI Fund

The All Grants Fund seeks to improve global health and well-being by supporting the full range of GiveWell’s grantmaking to high-impact opportunities, including at organisations outside of its top charities. See how GiveWell is responding to the US funding freeze.

GiveWell: All Grants Fund

Cool Earth aims to fight global warming through fighting deforestation in the rainforest.

Cool Earth

New Incentives improves childhood immunization rates in Nigeria by providing cash incentives to caregivers. 

New Incentives — Childhood Immunisation Incentives

Ansh reduces neonatal mortality in India by building capacity in government hospitals to deliver Kangaroo Care, including skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding support, and danger sign monitoring for at-risk newborns.

ansh — Neonatal Care

Safe Water Now increases access to safe water by treating water with chlorine so that it's safe to drink

Evidence Action: Safe Water Now

FWI Identifies and implements welfare improvements for farmed fish in priority contexts, particularly India.

Fish Welfare Initiative

The Global Health & Development Fund aims to improve the health and economic empowerment of people around the world as effectively as possible by granting to promising global health and development projects.

Effective Altruism Funds: Global Health and Development Fund

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

Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund

Longview Philanthropy seeks to positively influence the long-term future by guiding philanthropists to highly impactful funding opportunities.

Longview Philanthropy

Founders Pledge seeks to maximise philanthropic impact by conducting rigorous charity research and educating entrepreneurs about how and where to give effectively to help solve the world's most pressing problems.

Founders Pledge

Wild Animal Initiative seeks to advance wild animal welfare science through research, funding, and professional services, with the ultimate goal of improving the lives of wild animals responsibly and at scale.

Wild Animal Initiative

Faunalytics strengthens animal advocacy by providing animal advocates with important research and strategies that improve their effectiveness in saving lives. It conducts original research, offers direct research support to advocates/advocacy orgs, and maintains the largest database of animal advocacy research.

Faunalytics

Suvita works to increase childhood routine immunization in India through text message reminders and a network of ambassadors 

Suvita

The Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program at AIM fosters charitable impact by researching, training, and incubating effective charities.

AIM: Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program

The Movement Grants Program builds and strengthens the animal advocacy movement by funding a diverse range of promising projects around the globe.

Animal Charity Evaluators: Movement Grants Program

Clean Air Task Force's Climate Research & Advocacy program promotes technical and policy change for the climate by developing pragmatic pathways to a zero-carbon energy system across electricity, transport, and industry sectors.

Clean Air Task Force

Animal Advocacy Careers (AAC) seeks to address the career and talent bottlenecks in the animal advocacy movement, especially the farmed animal movement.

Animal Advocacy Careers

Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) aims to build resilience to global catastrophic food shocks through research, development, and policy recommendations.



ALLFED

Giving Green's Effective Giving Research & Advocacy program seeks to advance climate action philanthropy by evaluating and recommending what they've assessed to be the most cost-effective giving opportunities in climate. 

Giving Green

Magnify Mentoring supports a global community of people who are motivated to have a positive impact with their careers and lives.

Magnify Mentoring

GiveWell's Unrestricted Fund seeks to improve global health and well-being by providing GiveWell with flexible funding for their comprehensive grantmaking activities and operational needs, allowing for the advancement of research and identification of high-impact giving opportunities. The Fund may support any GiveWell priority — including both grants and GiveWell’s operating expenses.

GiveWell: Unrestricted Fund

The Incubated Charities Fund fosters charitable impact by providing seed grant funding to new, promising charities graduating from Charity Entrepreneurship's Incubation Program.

AIM: Charity Entrepreneurship Incubated Charities Fund

StrongMinds seeks to improve mental health in sub-Saharan Africa by using group talk therapy to treat depression in women and adolescents

StrongMinds

Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) works to eliminate childhood lead poisoning worldwide by partnering with governments, industry, and communities to remove lead from paint and other consumer products.

Lead Exposure Elimination Project

The Long-Term Future Fund aims to positively influence the long-term trajectory of civilisation by addressing global catastrophic risks, especially AI risk, through enabling individuals & groups to work on relevant, high-priority projects.

Effective Altruism Funds: Long-Term Future Fund

Fortify Health improves public health outcomes and tackles iron-deficiency anaemia at scale in India by enabling millers to easily fortify wheat flour.

Fortify Health — Anaemia Reduction at Scale

The Good Food Institute accelerates the transition of the world’s food system toward alternative proteins by developing and promoting plant- and cell-based alternatives to animal products.

Good Food Institute

The Deworming Program works to improve health and social outcomes for school-aged children by supporting and promoting schistosomiasis and intestinal worm treatment programs.

Sightsavers — Deworming programme

Animal Charity Evaluators helps reduce large-scale animal suffering by finding and promoting what they've assessed to be the most impactful organisations helping animals.

Animal Charity Evaluators

The Centre for Effective Altruism aims to increase the impact of careers and donations by stewarding the movement putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world’s most pressing problems.

Centre for Effective Altruism

The Global Catastrophic Risks Fund aims to reduce global catastrophic risks by granting to promising projects

Founders Pledge: Global Catastrophic Risks Fund

The protracted civil war in Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 21 million people estimated to be in need of aid. GiveDirectly’s Yemen Zakat Fund lets Yemeni families choose for themselves how best to meet their needs and build resilience.

GiveDirectly: Yemen Zakat Fund

AWO's animal welfare program aims to improve welfare standards for farmed animals through corporate outreach, research and monitoring, and policy initiatives that advance higher-welfare practices for broiler chickens, laying hens, farmed fishes and shrimps.

Animal Welfare Observatory — Farmed Animal Welfare

The Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund seeks to reduce the risk of nuclear war by funding promising projects, such as those that increase understanding of the new nuclear risk landscape, identify effective risk-reduction strategies, inform policymakers about how to tackle the persistent risks from nuclear weapons, and strengthen the capacity of the field.

Longview Philanthropy: Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund

Deworm the World partners with governments in India, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Pakistan to deliver school-based deworming programs that treat parasitic worm infections in children.

Evidence Action: Deworm the World

GovAI’s mission is to help decision-makers navigate the transition to a world with advanced AI, by producing rigorous research and fostering talent.

GovAI

Rethink Priorities aims to drive critical global improvements by conducting in-depth research and consultancy to improve the lives of humans and animals both in the present and in the future — through guiding evidence-based allocation of resources and nurturing the development of organisations addressing these essential priorities.

Rethink Priorities

Action for Happiness's wellbeing programs foster global wellbeing and happiness by offering evidence-based happiness tools and fostering supportive social networks.

Action for Happiness

The Effective Animal Advocacy Fund directs funding to highly effective organisations working to improve animal welfare. Currently, the research team plans to allocate half of this fund to the Animal Welfare Fund (EA Funds) and half to ACE's Movement Grants program. The Giving What We Can research team reviews the allocation of this fund at least once per year and so the Fund may grant to other opportunities in future grantmaking rounds. See this fund's past grant rounds.

Effective Animal Advocacy Fund

Social Change Lab supports social movements to maximise their impact and accelerate positive social change through research reports, workshops, and trainings.

Social Change Lab

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.

Effective Altruism Funds: Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund

Opportunity Green mitigates climate change by using legal, economic and policy initiatives aimed at reducing emissions in line with a 1.5C pathway by 2050.

Opportunity Green — Climate Solutions

The Recommended Charity Fund aims to improve the wellbeing of animals globally by supporting organisations ACE has rigorously evaluated and believes to be highly-impactful.

Animal Charity Evaluators: Recommended Charity Fund

High Impact Professionals empower professionals to pursue high-impact careers that address the world’s most pressing problems by providing career ecosystem support.

High Impact Professionals — Career Ecosystem Support

The Global Health and Wellbeing Fund directs funding to highly effective organisations working to improve human wellbeing. Currently, the research team consults with GiveWell when determining where to allocate funds. See this fund's past grant rounds.

Global Health and Wellbeing Fund

The Emerging Challenges Fund works to address global catastrophic risks from emerging technologies by supporting highly-effective organisations and projects.

Longview Philanthropy: Emerging Challenges Fund

Future Cleantech Architects accelerates innovation towards sustainable solutions in critical industries – such as cement, aviation, or shipping – by supporting and urging policymakers to intensify and better prioritise their R&D activities.

Future Cleantech Architects — Cleantech Innovation

The Giving Green Grantmaking Fund addresses climate change by supporting a research-backed selection of high-impact climate giving opportunities. 

Giving Green Fund

TaRL Africa enhances learning outcomes for children’s basic reading and math skills in Sub-Saharan Africa through the evidence-based Teaching at the Right Level approach.

Teaching at the Right Level Africa

Aquatic Life Institute advances aquatic animal welfare in the global food system through certification reform, policy advocacy and corporate engagement.

Aquatic Life Institute — Aquatic Animal Welfare

The Pandemic Prevention Program aims to fortify global health by conducting pioneering research and policy analysis to enhance preparedness and response to infectious diseases and public health crises.

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

HLI improves global wellbeing by conducting research on the measurement of wellbeing and applying wellbeing research when identifying and evaluating cost-effective policies and interventions 

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