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

Effektiv Spenden

Future Cleantech Architects

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.

Biosecurity programme

Nuclear Threat Initiative

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.

Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity programme

Project Healthy Children

Project Healthy Children works with rural millers in low-income countries to fortify staple foods with vitamins and minerals to end malnutrition in Africa.

Sanku: Project Healthy Children

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.

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.

ProVeg

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

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.

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.

Simon Institute for Longterm Governance

The Simon Institute for Longterm Governance helps international policymakers govern extreme risks and cooperate with future generations.

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

Good Energy Collective

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.

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.

Vitamin A Supplementation

Helen Keller International

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.

Helen Keller International — Vitamin A supplementation programme

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Top Charities Fund

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.

GiveWell: Top Charities Fund

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

Federation of American Scientists — Nuclear Information Project

Rethink Wellbeing’s mission is to nurture mental wellbeing at scale. To do so, it uses engaging, proven, and low-cost programmes, tailored to the needs of communities.

Rethink Wellbeing

Center on Long-Term Risk

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.

Animals Advocacy Africa

Animal Advocacy Africa works to empower animal advocates who are (interested in) doing work to reduce farmed animal suffering in African countries. They share knowledge, provide connections, and help them build the skills to run an impactful animal advocacy organisation.

Animal Advocacy Africa

by Founders Pledge

Patient Philanthropy Fund

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

Founders Pledge: Patient Philanthropy Fund

Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention

Malaria Consortium

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

Malaria Consortium — Seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme

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.

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.

Climate Change Fund

The Founders Pledge Climate Change Fund supports 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

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

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

Giving What We Can Charity Elections

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


Council on Strategic Risks — Nuclear weapons policy work

All Grants Fund

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

GiveWell: All Grants Fund

Farmed Animal Funders (FAF) is a group of funders committed to replacing factory farming with a more humane and sustainable food system — leading to a world free of the suffering factory farming causes to animals, people, and the environment. To get there faster, FAF seeks to share, learn, and collaborate to become more effective funders.

Farmed Animal Funders

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.

The Life You Can Save

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

Fortify Health

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


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.

Global Food Partners

Healthier Hens

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.

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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.

Evidence Action: Dispensers for Safe Water

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.

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Global Health and Development Fund

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.

Effective Altruism Funds: Global Health and Development Fund

Animal Welfare Fund

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.

Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund

Machine Intelligence Research Institute

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

Longview Philanthropy

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

Forethought Foundation

The Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research aims to promote academic work that addresses the question of how to use our scarce resources to improve the world by as much as possible.

Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research

by Center on Long-Term Risk

CLR Fund

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.

Center on Long-Term Risk Fund

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.

High Impact Athletes

High Impact Athletes guides high-profile athletes towards the most impactful charities and uses their platforms to grow the effective altruism movement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Evergreen Collaborative

Charity Entrepreneurship

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

by Animal Charity Evaluators

Movement Grants Fund

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 Charity Evaluators: Movement Grants fund

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.

Animal Advocacy Careers

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

ALLFED

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

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

Giving Green

Unrestricted Fund

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.

GiveWell: Unrestricted Fund

by Charity Entrepreneurship

Incubated Charities Fund

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.

Charity Entrepreneurship: Incubated Charities Fund

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.

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.

Lead Exposure Elimination Project

Long-Term Future Fund

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.

Effective Altruism Funds: Long-Term Future Fund

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. 

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Sightsavers

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.

Sightsavers — Deworming programme

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.

Centre for Effective Altruism

The Centre for Effective Altruism's mission is to build a community of students and professionals acting on effective altruism principles, by creating and sustaining high-quality discussion spaces.

Development Media International

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

Global Catastrophic Risks Fund

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

Founders Pledge: Global Catastrophic Risks Fund

by GiveDirectly

Yemen Zakat 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

General Longtermism team

Rethink Priorities

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.

Rethink Priorities — General Longtermism team

Deworm the World Initiative

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.

Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)

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

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.

Dzīvnieku brīvība

Dzīvnieku brīvība (Animal Freedom) is a nonprofit organisation in Latvia working to end animal suffering in industrial agriculture. Its work includes both animal welfare campaigns and plant-based food promotion programmes.

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

Global Catastrophic Risk Institute

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

Action for Happiness

Social Change Lab

Social Change Lab is a nonprofit research organisation conducting social movement research to understand how we can most effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.

Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund

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

Recommended Charity Fund

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.

Animal Charity Evaluators: Recommended Charity Fund

by Longview Philanthropy

Longtermism Fund

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

Longview Philanthropy: Longtermism Fund

Doneer Effectief

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

SecureBio, a nonprofit working alongside the 

 on highly targeted projects seeking to prevent or respond to the next pandemic.

SecureBio

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.

Patrick & Devin Wedding Fundraiser

Patrick & Devin

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Top Charities Fund

Climate Change Fund

Longtermism Fund