GiveWell is an organization that claims it has found the charities that do the most good, and also need the most funding. They have concluded that “serving the global poor” is the way to do the most good and alleviate the most human suffering today.
GiveWell is a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give.
Unlike charity evaluators that focus solely on financials, assessing administrative or fundraising costs, we conduct in-depth research aiming to determine how much good a given program accomplishes (in terms of lives saved, lives improved, etc.) per dollar spent. Rather than try to rate as many charities as possible, we focus on the few charities that stand out most (by our criteria) in order to find and confidently recommend the best giving opportunities possible (our list of top charities).
Our top charities are (in alphabetical order):
- Against Malaria Foundation (AMF)
- Deworm the World Initiative (DtWI), led by Evidence Action
- GiveDirectly
- Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI)
We have recommended all four of these charities in the past.
We have also included four additional organizations on our top charities page as standout charities. They are (in alphabetical order):