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 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

The Good Energy Collective supports the equitable adoption of advanced nuclear energy by developing and educating about nuclear policies that align with progressive values and justice-centered climate goals

Good Energy Collective

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 half of the fund's budget to the Long-Term Future Fund (EA Funds) and half to the Emerging Challenges Fund (Longview Philanthropy). 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)

The Deworming Program prevents parasitic infection and seeks to build resilient systems for good health by supporting schistosomiasis deworming programs in low-income countries and partnering with ministries of health to support country-owned solutions. 

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

A charity election is a school-wide event in which high school students vote among three charities to decide which will receive up to $2,000 in sponsored funds.

Charity Elections

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

TLYCS aims to combat extreme poverty by connecting donors to highly effective giving opportunities, and inspiring and empowering philanthropic actions.

The Life You Can Save

Fortify Health aims to prevent and reduce anaemia at scale in India by fortifying wheat flour with iron.


Fortify Health

Healthier Hens is a new animal welfare nonprofit, incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship in 2021, that is searching for cost-effective interventions to reduce pain and suffering caused by bone health issues in egg-laying hens.

Healthier Hens

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

The Center on Long-Term Risk Fund supports promising projects and individuals working on long-term risk mitigation related to advanced AI.

Center on Long-Term Risk Fund

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

HIA seeks to maximise philanthropic impact by guiding athletes and their supporters to highly-effective donation opportunities

High Impact Athletes

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

CHAI's AI Safety Research and Field Building program promotes the beneficial use of AI through research, field building, and thought leadership.

Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI)

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 operations.

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

LEEP seeks to eliminate lead poisoning across the globe by advocating for policies that prevent lead exposure, such as ending the sale and manufacture of lead paint worldwide.

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

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 Center for Effective Altruism aims to increase charitable and career impact by nurturing a community of people who are thinking carefully about the world's most pressing problems and taking impactful action to solve them. 

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

The Animal Welfare Portfolio seeks to enhance animal welfare and address the challenges of industrial animal agriculture by distributing donations among leading charities focused on these issues as recommended by High Impact Athletes' expert advisors.

High Impact Athletes’ Animal Welfare Portfolio

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 prevents parasite related illnesses in children by collaborating with governments to run cost-effective deworming treatment programs.

Evidence Action: Deworm the World

GovAI aims to enhance the management and influence of global policy decisions regarding advanced AI by developing a global research community and engaging with key stakeholders to navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by AI advancements.

Centre for the Governance of AI (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 neutering 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

HIA's Global Health and Poverty Portfolio seeks to improve human lives and alleviate poverty by allocating donations to carefully selected, cost-effective charities, as recommended by High Impact Athletes' expert advisors.

High Impact Athletes’ Global Health & Poverty Portfolio 

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 seeks to maximise the impact of social movements by conducting  research on the best ways to accelerate positive social change.

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

The APPG aims to safeguard the wellbeing and interests of future generations by  providing education, support, and advice to decision-makers and policy makers and facilitating
cross-party engagement and dialogue on combating short-termism and identifying ways to internalise concern for future generations into today’s policymaking. 

Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations

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

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 security risks from emerging technologies by supporting highly-effective organisations and projects.

Longview Philanthropy: Emerging Challenges Fund

The Maximum Good Portfolio seeks to optimize philanthropic impact across global health and poverty, animal welfare, and climate change by diversifying donations among a strategic mix of high-impact charities in these fields as recommended by High Impact Athletes' expert advisors

High Impact Athletes’ Maximum Good Portfolio

Industrious Labs seeks to address climate change by decarbonising heavy industry through advocacy, capacity building, and research.

Industrious Labs

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

Effective Altruism Australia's effective giving program promotes effective giving in Australia through research and advocacy.

Effective Altruism Australia

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 

Happier Lives Institute

If you would like to celebrate Johannes' birthday by donating something to good causes then here's your chance. Giving What We Can will use in-depth research to figure out which charities will create the biggest bang from your donation-buck.

by GiveWell

Top Charities Fund

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. 

Johannes GWWC Birthday Fund

Johannes Bergfors

Raising for:

GiveWell