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Each year we reflect on the opportunities our research has identified and how we think donors can have the greatest impact. For the past three years, we’ve encouraged donors to choose among our three Giving Funds based on their preferences: the Top Charities Fund for those who wanted the most certainty, the All Grants Fund for those who wanted to support the highest-impact opportunities we have identified, and the Unrestricted Fund for those those who wanted to support GiveWell’s operations as well as the full spectrum of our grantmaking.

This year, we recommend that donors give to the All Grants Fund.

GiveWell is growing quickly. We expect our grantmaking in 2026 to exceed $1 billion, more than double what we committed in 2025, and we expect to grow further in the years ahead. From 2027 through 2032, we’re aiming to grant at least $2.5 billion in new malaria funding, and potentially much more. In addition, in 2027 alone, we expect to grant more than $1 billion to program areas outside malaria, and we think we could grant more with additional funding. At this scale, flexibility matters more than it used to.

Supporting the All Grants Fund provides us with this flexibility. Donations to the All Grants Fund can be used to support the full range of GiveWell’s grantmaking. We make grants from the All Grants Fund to those opportunities that we believe will have the greatest impact—that may mean, for example, supporting a Top Charity program, piloting new programs, or funding research that we think will help us direct more funding to highly cost-effective programs in the future.

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Each year we reflect on the opportunities our research has identified and how we think donors can have the greatest impact. For the past three years, we’ve encouraged donors to choose among our three Giving Funds based on their preferences: the Top Charities Fund for those who wanted the most certainty, the All Grants Fund for those who wanted to support the highest-impact opportunities we have identified, and the Unrestricted Fund for those those who wanted to support GiveWell’s operations as well as the full spectrum of our grantmaking.

This year, we recommend that donors give to the All Grants Fund.

GiveWell is growing quickly. We expect our grantmaking in 2026 to exceed $1 billion, more than double what we committed in 2025, and we expect to grow further in the years ahead. From 2027 through 2032, we’re aiming to grant at least $2.5 billion in new malaria funding, and potentially much more. In addition, in 2027 alone, we expect to grant more than $1 billion to program areas outside malaria, and we think we could grant more with additional funding. At this scale, flexibility matters more than it used to.

Supporting the All Grants Fund provides us with this flexibility. Donations to the All Grants Fund can be used to support the full range of GiveWell’s grantmaking. We make grants from the All Grants Fund to those opportunities that we believe will have the greatest impact—that may mean, for example, supporting a Top Charity program, piloting new programs, or funding research that we think will help us direct more funding to highly cost-effective programs in the future.

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Routine childhood immunizations, provided on a set schedule over a child’s first two years of life, are very effective at reducing some of the major causes of death in young children. We estimate that in the provinces where we’ve supported programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), about one in 13 unvaccinated children dies from vaccine-preventable diseases before the age of five, yet only about half of children there receive the vaccinations they need.

Much of our Vaccination research subteam’s work focuses on finding ways to make it easier for caregivers to have their children vaccinated, such as bringing vaccines closer to where parents and infants live. This is especially important in places like DRC, where coverage is low and disease burden is high. Following a request for proposals and a request for information seeking targeted vaccination outreach programs, we funded 11 additional programs, run by distinct organizations—six of which will be implemented in DRC. This portfolio builds on years of investment in our research team, which allowed us to evaluate more than 100 proposals and fund several programs side by side to learn which approaches work best.

In this episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Natalie Crispin, who leads GiveWell’s vaccination grantmaking, about the programs we funded in DRC. They discuss barriers preventing many children in DRC from getting vaccinated, how the programs we’re funding aim to reach them, and what we hope to learn.

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Routine childhood immunizations, provided on a set schedule over a child’s first two years of life, are very effective at reducing some of the major causes of death in young children. We estimate that in the provinces where we’ve supported programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), about one in 13 unvaccinated children dies from vaccine-preventable diseases before the age of five, yet only about half of children there receive the vaccinations they need.

Much of our Vaccination research subteam’s work focuses on finding ways to make it easier for caregivers to have their children vaccinated, such as bringing vaccines closer to where parents and infants live. This is especially important in places like DRC, where coverage is low and disease burden is high. Following a request for proposals and a request for information seeking targeted vaccination outreach programs, we funded 11 additional programs, run by distinct organizations—six of which will be implemented in DRC. This portfolio builds on years of investment in our research team, which allowed us to evaluate more than 100 proposals and fund several programs side by side to learn which approaches work best.

In this episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Natalie Crispin, who leads GiveWell’s vaccination grantmaking, about the programs we funded in DRC. They discuss barriers preventing many children in DRC from getting vaccinated, how the programs we’re funding aim to reach them, and what we hope to learn.

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Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below!

If you'd like to receive the complete newsletter in your inbox each month, you can subscribe here.

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Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below!

If you'd like to receive the complete newsletter in your inbox each month, you can subscribe here.

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Over the past five years, GiveWell has expanded the scale of our grantmaking and team substantially. We expect to grant more than $1 billion this year, more than double the $418 million we committed in 2025. Alongside this grantmaking growth, we’ve more than doubled the number of researchers on our team since the start of last year. A larger team means we can investigate a greater number of both more complex and larger funding opportunities than we could before. One area where we expect our grantmaking to increase substantially in the coming years is the prevention and treatment of malaria.

From 2027 through 2032, we’re aiming to grant at least $2.5 billion in new malaria funding, potentially several times that amount. The total amount will depend on the funding we have available, the feasibility of scaling up cost-effective malaria programs, countries’ appetite for those programs, and how opportunities within malaria compare to other grantmaking areas. This expanded support could go to organizations we currently fund (such as the Against Malaria Foundation and Malaria Consortium), as well as to new organizations and novel funding vehicles. We are still in the process of assessing which strategies for deploying new malaria funding are likely to be highly cost-effective and scalable, and are currently exploring partnerships with the Global Fund and Gavi to help rapidly scale our impact across many programs in many countries at once.

While this post focuses on our malaria work, we are also growing our grantmaking in other areas. This includes areas we have supported for many years, such as treatment for severe malnutrition, efforts to increase childhood vaccination, and programs to provide safe drinking water, as well as areas we have supported at relatively smaller scale to date, such as medical oxygen, tuberculosis control, and family planning. We currently expect to grant more than $1 billion to program areas outside malaria in 2027, and we think we could grant more with additional funding. While the scale of our grantmaking is growing, we’ll remain focused on researching the most cost‑effective ways to save and improve lives, sharing our work openly, and directing donations to help people in need as much as we can.

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Over the past five years, GiveWell has expanded the scale of our grantmaking and team substantially. We expect to grant more than $1 billion this year, more than double the $418 million we committed in 2025. Alongside this grantmaking growth, we’ve more than doubled the number of researchers on our team since the start of last year. A larger team means we can investigate a greater number of both more complex and larger funding opportunities than we could before. One area where we expect our grantmaking to increase substantially in the coming years is the prevention and treatment of malaria.

From 2027 through 2032, we’re aiming to grant at least $2.5 billion in new malaria funding, potentially several times that amount. The total amount will depend on the funding we have available, the feasibility of scaling up cost-effective malaria programs, countries’ appetite for those programs, and how opportunities within malaria compare to other grantmaking areas. This expanded support could go to organizations we currently fund (such as the Against Malaria Foundation and Malaria Consortium), as well as to new organizations and novel funding vehicles. We are still in the process of assessing which strategies for deploying new malaria funding are likely to be highly cost-effective and scalable, and are currently exploring partnerships with the Global Fund and Gavi to help rapidly scale our impact across many programs in many countries at once.

While this post focuses on our malaria work, we are also growing our grantmaking in other areas. This includes areas we have supported for many years, such as treatment for severe malnutrition, efforts to increase childhood vaccination, and programs to provide safe drinking water, as well as areas we have supported at relatively smaller scale to date, such as medical oxygen, tuberculosis control, and family planning. We currently expect to grant more than $1 billion to program areas outside malaria in 2027, and we think we could grant more with additional funding. While the scale of our grantmaking is growing, we’ll remain focused on researching the most cost‑effective ways to save and improve lives, sharing our work openly, and directing donations to help people in need as much as we can.

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In an effort to direct substantially more funding to the most cost-effective opportunities we can find to help people, GiveWell’s research is expanding in two directions at once: going broader, to cover more areas of global health and development, and going deeper, to improve the inputs that inform our decision-making.

This episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at how this expansion is playing out on GiveWell’s research team, as three researchers each describe a project they have taken on: reassessing how to prevent childhood pneumonia deaths, building a better estimate of how many children die of malaria, and developing an AI tool to check our work for errors.

In this episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Dilhan Perera, Senior Researcher James Watson, and Research Analyst Meghna Ray about the projects they’ve worked on and what it’s like to do research at GiveWell.

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In an effort to direct substantially more funding to the most cost-effective opportunities we can find to help people, GiveWell’s research is expanding in two directions at once: going broader, to cover more areas of global health and development, and going deeper, to improve the inputs that inform our decision-making.

This episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at how this expansion is playing out on GiveWell’s research team, as three researchers each describe a project they have taken on: reassessing how to prevent childhood pneumonia deaths, building a better estimate of how many children die of malaria, and developing an AI tool to check our work for errors.

In this episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Dilhan Perera, Senior Researcher James Watson, and Research Analyst Meghna Ray about the projects they’ve worked on and what it’s like to do research at GiveWell.

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Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below!

If you'd like to receive the complete newsletter in your inbox each month, you can subscribe here.

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Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below!

If you'd like to receive the complete newsletter in your inbox each month, you can subscribe here.

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GiveWell works to continually improve our research so we can make better grant decisions and direct donations where we believe they can do the most good. GiveWell’s Cross-Cutting research subteam is an important part of that effort—it investigates the impact of the programs we fund, works to resolve our largest uncertainties, and aims to improve our research. As GiveWell’s grantmaking grows, the Cross-Cutting subteam is strengthening our data collection and analysis to support that growth.

In this episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Program Director Alex Cohen, who leads the Cross-Cutting subteam, about how better data can improve our decision-making, our work to gather stronger evidence, and the ways we’ve tested AI as a tool to increase our research capacity and quality.

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GiveWell works to continually improve our research so we can make better grant decisions and direct donations where we believe they can do the most good. GiveWell’s Cross-Cutting research subteam is an important part of that effort—it investigates the impact of the programs we fund, works to resolve our largest uncertainties, and aims to improve our research. As GiveWell’s grantmaking grows, the Cross-Cutting subteam is strengthening our data collection and analysis to support that growth.

In this episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Program Director Alex Cohen, who leads the Cross-Cutting subteam, about how better data can improve our decision-making, our work to gather stronger evidence, and the ways we’ve tested AI as a tool to increase our research capacity and quality.

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Thanks to the trust and generosity of our donors, GiveWell raised $616 million in metrics year 2025, an increase of 49% from 2024. We directed $427 million to support outstanding opportunities to do good in 32 countries. We estimate that the programs supported by the funds we directed this year will save an additional 86,000 lives.

We have spent years growing our research capacity and scope to enable us to direct significantly more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find, and 2025 was a milestone in that ongoing growth. We responded to urgent needs generated by foreign aid cuts, and we continued to find and fund a growing number and a wider range of high-impact ways to help people. We anticipate our total grantmaking is likely to approach or even exceed $1 billion in 2026, and we are working toward a future that could be several times that scale.

And yet, global needs still far exceed available resources. More than four million young children die in low- and middle-income countries every year—and most of those deaths are preventable. As our team works toward our goal of helping people at a much larger scale, we’re grateful to the donors whose support enables us to continue to find and fund highly cost-effective programs that save or improve lives the most.

See our full 2025 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.

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Thanks to the trust and generosity of our donors, GiveWell raised $616 million in metrics year 2025, an increase of 49% from 2024. We directed $427 million to support outstanding opportunities to do good in 32 countries. We estimate that the programs supported by the funds we directed this year will save an additional 86,000 lives.

We have spent years growing our research capacity and scope to enable us to direct significantly more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find, and 2025 was a milestone in that ongoing growth. We responded to urgent needs generated by foreign aid cuts, and we continued to find and fund a growing number and a wider range of high-impact ways to help people. We anticipate our total grantmaking is likely to approach or even exceed $1 billion in 2026, and we are working toward a future that could be several times that scale.

And yet, global needs still far exceed available resources. More than four million young children die in low- and middle-income countries every year—and most of those deaths are preventable. As our team works toward our goal of helping people at a much larger scale, we’re grateful to the donors whose support enables us to continue to find and fund highly cost-effective programs that save or improve lives the most.

See our full 2025 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.

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The post GiveWell’s 2025 Metrics and Impact appeared first on The GiveWell Blog.

Thanks to the trust and generosity of our donors, GiveWell raised $616 million in metrics year 2025, an increase of 49% from 2024. We directed $427 million to support outstanding opportunities to do good in 32 countries. We estimate that the programs supported by the funds we directed this year will save an additional 86,000 lives.

We have spent years growing our research capacity and scope to enable us to direct significantly more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find, and 2025 was a milestone in that ongoing growth. We responded to urgent needs generated by foreign aid cuts, and we continued to find and fund a growing number and a wider range of high-impact ways to help people. We anticipate our total grantmaking is likely to approach or even exceed $1 billion in 2026, and we are working toward a future that could be several times that scale.

And yet, global needs still far exceed available resources. More than four million young children die in low- and middle-income countries every year—and most of those deaths are preventable. As our team works toward our goal of helping people at a much larger scale, we’re grateful to the donors whose support enables us to continue to find and fund highly cost-effective programs that save or improve lives the most.

See our full 2025 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.

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Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below!

If you'd like to receive the complete newsletter in your inbox each month, you can subscribe here.

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Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below!

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Malaria kills around 600,000 people annually. Children under five years old in Africa account for about 70% of all malaria deaths worldwide, and around 11% of total malaria deaths are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

As part of our ongoing efforts to scale our research and funding to direct much more money where it can do extraordinary good, GiveWell recently made its largest grant ever: $276 million to fund the purchase and distribution of malaria nets in DRC through the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF). The grant is being funded by Coefficient Giving and donations to GiveWell’s Top Charities Fund.

We estimate this grant will lead to the distribution of around 92 million insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), 46 million of which we think would not otherwise be distributed, and will avert approximately 67,000 deaths.

The research we conducted as part of this grant investigation led us to two key decisions:

• First, this grant is much larger than our past funding for nets in DRC, enabling the purchase of nets for use across all 26 provinces of DRC from 2027 through 2029 and covering $60 million in distribution costs.
• Second, the funding will shorten the time between regular net distributions to provide additional protection against malaria in up to five provinces with higher malaria burden.

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