GiveWell's Impact

Last updated: August 2025

Thanks to the generosity of more than 30,000 donors, GiveWell raised $415 million and directed
$397 million to cost-effective programs in metrics year 2024 (February 2024 to January 2025).1 We approved 55 grants to 34 organizations working in 22 countries.2 We estimate that the programs supported by these grants will help around 34 million people who would not otherwise have been reached and will save an additional 74,000 lives.3

We’re incredibly grateful to our donors for the trust they place in our research and for their partnership in trying to do the most good we can together. See our full 2024 metrics report for more details behind the money we raised, the funds we directed, operational expenses, donor metrics, and the impact we had last year.

Funds raised

Donations increased from 2023 to 2024, with total funds raised of around $415 million in 2024 compared to around $355 million in 2023.

Our funds raised include $64 million in donations to our Top Charities Fund, $59 million to our All Grants Fund, $111 million to our Unrestricted Fund, a commitment of $100 million from Open Philanthropy, and other donations to support cost-effective global health and development programs. While we raised more money in 2024 than 2023, we raised less than in the previous two years due to high funding from Open Philanthropy during that time.4

Most donors who give via GiveWell rely on GiveWell to allocate their donation rather than choosing to restrict their donation to a particular organization. In 2024, 87% of the donations we raised fit into this category, compared to 90% in 2023, 91% in 2022, and 86% in 2021.5

Funds directed

In 2024, we directed $397 million to high-impact programs and organizations.6

Of the $397 million we directed to organizations in 2024, 76% went to our four Top Charities, with $150 million (50% of the total directed to Top Charities) going to the Against Malaria Foundation for insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria, $87 million (28%) to Malaria Consortium for its seasonal malaria chemoprevention program, $54 million (18%) to Helen Keller Intl for its vitamin A supplementation program, and around $12 million (4%) to New Incentives for its program of conditional cash transfers to increase vaccinations.

Around $95 million was directed to organizations and programs other than our current Top Charities. This includes grants to incubate newer programs, promote policy change, fund relevant scoping and research, or support other potentially high-impact, cost-effective initiatives.

Below is a list of organizations and programs GiveWell supported in 2024, organized by funding amount. The amounts include both funding we allocated and funding designated by donors for specific organizations.

Organization and Program Total
Against Malaria Foundation – insecticide-treated nets (Top Charity) $149,670,66
Malaria Consortium – seasonal malaria chemoprevention (Top Charity) $86,955,952
Helen Keller Intl – vitamin A supplementation (Top Charity) $54,187,611
PATH – malaria vaccines $17,367,272
Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) – tuberculosis contact management $15,092,329
Malaria Consortium – insecticide-treated nets $14,861,911
New Incentives – conditional cash transfers for vaccinations (Top Charity) $11,522,024
Nutrition International – rice fortification $5,470,534
CHAI – organizational development $5,104,824
Taimaka – malnutrition treatment $4,787,985
London School of Health & Tropical Medicine – eyeglasses RCT $4,786,813
New Incentives – oral rehydration solution $4,759,596
Evidence Action – deworming $4,371,604
Nutrition International – vitamin A supplementation $3,133,480
ALIMA – malnutrition treatment $2,000,000
Ansh – kangaroo care $1,976,578
Dimagi – CommCare Connect $1,320,542
Y-RISE – RCT of water entrepreneurship program $1,299,147
Evidence Action – syphilis screening and treatment $1,214,089
Resolve to Save Lives – scoping for dietary salt modification $726,889
Wageningen University – vaccine outreach RCT $676,857
MDGH – WHO prequalification for moxidectin $637,549
IPA and University of Michigan – Raising the Village RCT $542,110
University of Oxford – GiveDirectly RCT $491,700
Uduma – in-line chlorination pilot $480,501
J-PAL Africa – scoping for chlorine vouchers $472,362
Our World in Data – unrestricted support $400,000
University of Chicago – study of conditional cash transfers $369,075
University of California, Berkeley – study of cash transfers $338,897
Mangrove Water – in-line chlorination $325,508
IDinsight – beneficiary preferences research/pilots $299,083
Evidence Action – iron and folic acid supplementation $297,176
Center for Global Development – research on funding opportunities $197,000
University of Oxford – iron bioavailability study $187,330
3ie – scoping for preschool RCT follow-up $169,691
International Rescue Committee – scoping for vaccination $150,000
IRD Global – breastfeeding reminders pilot $100,000
IDinsight – review of AMF’s monitoring $94,500
Zipline – scoping for use of drones for vaccination $60,082
Urban Institute – history of philanthropy $50,000
Spark Microgrants – RCT workshop $20,000

Previous metrics reports

  • 1

    GiveWell’s metrics year runs from February 1 through January 31. Our metrics report is typically published at least six months after the close of the metrics year because we need to collect data on donations we influence from third parties and then cross-check that data to ensure we aren’t double-counting any funds.

  • 2

    The countries include Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, China, Côte d’Ivoire, DRC, Guinea, India, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Some grants were not country specific.

  • 3

    The calculations for these impact estimates cover only the 17 grants in 2024 focused on reducing mortality, and exclude the impacts from our other 38 grants.

  • 4

    Note that the figures in the chart for 2020 and earlier refer to “money moved,” which we are no longer reporting. Though similar, these two metrics are not directly comparable.

  • 5

    These funds include:

    • donations to the Top Charities Fund, which we allocate quarterly to the highest priority funding needs among our Top Charities.
    • donations to the All Grants Fund, which we allocate on a rolling basis to the most impactful grant opportunities we’ve identified, including funding opportunities substantially more uncertain, experimental, or less likely to achieve their expected impact than our Top Charities.
    • donations to our Unrestricted Fund, which can be allocated to any GiveWell priority, including grantmaking and our own operating expenses.
    • grants we recommend that other funders make. The vast majority of this comes from Open Philanthropy, which generally disburses funding directly to the organizations we recommend. Note, however, that Open Philanthropy retains the discretion to approve or reject grants. We also recommend grants to other funders, such as the EA Global Health and Development Fund and groups that seek our input on donation allocations from funds they operate.

    This category excludes donations to individual Top Charities (either through us or directly to the organization) unless the donation is the result of a specific request we made to a donor.

  • 6

    This includes both grantmaking and donations made to our Top Charities on the basis of our recommendation. Some GiveWell grants are conditional on specific criteria, such as organizations signing agreements with local governments or achieving certain benchmarks. If some of those conditions are not met, the total amount disbursed to organizations may be less than $397 million. In addition, some grants provide funding for more than one year; we count the total grant amount as funds directed in the year the grant is committed.

    Note that the total for funds directed in 2023 here differs from the amount listed in our 2023 metrics report. We no longer include funds directed to GiveWell’s operating expenses in our funds directed total.

    We directed around $197 million in 2023, substantially less than in 2024, and we directed about $139 million less in 2023 than we raised in 2023, in part because of a shift in our grant deployment timelines; see this blog post, which explains GiveWell’s approach to making cost-effective grants in a context where the amount of funds we raise each year varies.