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Give to cost-effective, evidence-backed charities. We search for charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar. These are the best we’ve found. Supported by 50,000+ hours of research annually.
We search for the charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar. Our goal is to produce the world's top research on where to give. Free, for everyone.
GiveWell's mission is to find outstanding giving opportunities and publish the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. We focus on global health and poverty alleviation programs because that's where we've found dollars can go the furthest.
This page describes GiveWell's Top Charities Fund. Donations to the Top Charities Fund are granted each quarter to support cost-effective funding opportunities at our top charities.
Our top charities, which (based on 2021 figures) we estimate could save a life for roughly every $3,500 to $5,500 in donations, are the most cost-effective and evidence-backed programs that we know of. Full reviews of each of our top charities are linked from this page.
For life-saving charities, we present two cost-effectiveness estimates: one based on the cost of each output and one based on the cost of each outcome. Outcomes refer to the ultimate impact of the donation, such as saving a life, that results from the outputs.
Here's how we look for charities that do the most good per dollar donated: Process for identifying top charities. Our criteria for top charities. Our core competencies. Learn how to give effectively to achieve the biggest possible impact with your charitable donation using GiveWell's research.
Our top charities team identified many more cost-effective funding opportunities in 2021. In 2021, we’ve already recommended $51 million in grants to maintain existing programs run by our top charities. But we’re also working to identify new opportunities to fund within our top charities.
You can have a major, positive impact today by choosing to support organizations backed by strong evidence: our top charities. We recommend the nonprofits that offer the most impact per dollar we’re aware of. In fact, we estimate that you can save a life by donating $3,000-$5,000 to our top recommendation.
GiveWell wrote about VillageReach (the most cost efficient charity according to GW): “If the Disease Control Priorities Report is correct to estimate that $15 per fully immunized child corresponds to $200 per death averted, this would imply that VillageReach is averting a child death for every ~$545 it spends, still well within the range ...