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About GiveWell
GiveWell is a nonprofit dedicated to helping people in need as much as we can by researching the most cost‑effective ways to save and improve lives, sharing our work openly, and directing donations to the programs we believe will do the most good.
Our Giving Funds enable donors to contribute to the most impactful and cost-effective opportunities our researchers identify. GiveWell is focused on finding a small number of outstanding giving opportunities, not on reviewing as many organizations—or as many causes—as possible.
We don’t focus solely on financials, such as assessing administrative or fundraising costs. Instead, we conduct in-depth research to determine how much good a given program accomplishes (in terms of lives saved, lives improved, etc.) per dollar spent.
Our Impact
More than 150,000 donors have trusted GiveWell to direct their donations. Together, they have given over $2.6 billion to the organizations and grants we’ve recommended. Of that total, around $1.4 billion has been given to our current Top Charities, where we expect these donations will save over 340,000 lives.
Our Giving Funds
We offer multiple giving funds for donors with different preferences, and strongly believe each of these options is a very impactful way to give. By donating to one of GiveWell’s giving funds, you take advantage of our ongoing research and analysis, ensuring that your gift is allocated to the highest-impact giving opportunities that we’ve identified.
GiveWell takes zero fees and will apply its judgment to allocate these funds among the organizations we recommend. We take into account organizations’ funding needs and donations they have received from other sources. We then make grants to the highest-value funding opportunities we can find.
If you want to support GiveWell and/or our grantees but aren’t sure which option is right for you, an online guide can help you decide how to direct your giving.
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https://www.givewell.org/
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How is GiveWell supported?
GiveWell is supported by donors who explicitly choose to direct funding to our operations. Some donors choose to add 10% of their donation amount to support GiveWell‘s operations, and others choose to give their full donation amount to the unrestricted fund to support our operations.
The primary use of unrestricted funding is for operating expenses. However, we have an “excess assets” policy, which provides that once we surpass a certain level of unrestricted assets, we earmark the excess for granting rather than continue to hold it ourselves.
To avoid overly relying on a single source of support, we cap the amount of funding any individual or entity may provide to our operations at 20 percent.
For details on our revenues and expenses, see our online financial statements. How is GiveWell supported?
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https://www.givewell.org/donate/more-information#supportcharities
