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GiveWell 2024 Metrics and Impact
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This is a GiveWell organizational metrics report focused on global health charity effectiveness; it has minimal direct relevance to AI safety but may be tangentially useful for researchers interested in effective altruism infrastructure or philanthropic resource allocation overlapping with AI safety funding ecosystems.
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Summary
GiveWell's annual report on their 2024 fundraising metrics, operational effectiveness, and estimated impact of donations directed through their charity recommendations. It documents how much money was moved to top charities and the estimated lives saved or improved as a result of GiveWell-influenced giving.
Key Points
- •Reports total funds raised and directed to GiveWell-recommended charities in 2024, tracking year-over-year trends in donor engagement.
- •Estimates cost-effectiveness and impact metrics such as lives saved or malaria cases prevented per dollar donated.
- •Provides transparency on GiveWell's own operational costs and overhead relative to funds moved to effective charities.
- •Reflects on lessons learned and adjustments to recommendation methodology or outreach strategies.
- •Serves as an accountability document for GiveWell's mission of finding and funding the most impactful global health and poverty interventions.
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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 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. We approved 55 grants to 34 organizations working in 22 countries. 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 2024 grants were not country specific. 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 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.
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 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.
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 These funds include donations to the Top Charities Fund , donations to the All Grants Fund , donations to our Unrestricted Fund , which can be allocated to any Gi
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