If you’re looking for vetted, cost-effective options this Giving Tuesday (and throughout 2025) check out the newly updated list of our research team’s top recommendations. We think these are among the best places to donate if you’re looking to maximise the impact of your next dollar – and be confident your money is leading to real impact.
These recommendations are informed by the outcomes of our Evaluating the Evaluators project, which you can read more about here.
As we start to wind down towards the end of the year, Giving Tuesday can help us take action on giving back, and help prompt us to finalise our giving before year-end.
So without further ado, here are our 2025 charity and fund recommendations:
You may notice that our recommendations are similar to last year’s. This is because we base our charity recommendations on the research of vetted, impact-focused evaluators we’ve determined – through our evaluate the evaluators work – are best suited to help donors maximise the impact of their next dollar.
Last year – through investigating six evaluator programs – we determined that we could confidently rely on EA Funds’ Animal Welfare and Long-Term Future funds, Longview’s Emerging Challenges Fund, and GiveWell’s funds and research. This year, we re-evaluated ACE’s Movement Grants and Charity Evaluation Program, and we also evaluated the Founders Pledge Global Health & Development Fund. We determined that of these three, we were only confident recommending the ACE’s Movement Grants program at this time. Read more about our 2024 evaluator research.
We also felt confident that the evaluators whose research we deferred to last year would likely take a similar approach and so maintain similar marginal cost-effectiveness this year, so we’ve kept those recommendations active (though plan to re-evaluate some of these next year at the two-year mark.) That said, we made one exception last year and recommended an individual charity that was not recommended by any of our vetted evaluators – The Humane League. We didn’t feel confident continuing to rely on that recommendation this year without a re-evaluation since we think charity programs can change more quickly than grantmaking programs, so we’ve removed The Humane League from our list (though we still think it’s an option worth considering and you can still donate to it via our donation platform.)
Why funds?
Many of our recommendations are funds. Funds allow donors to pool together money that then will be distributed to projects or charities that are chosen by expert fund managers. This allows donors to access donation opportunities they might not otherwise get access to, like supporting specific grants such as funding the rollout of the malaria vaccine in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. Funds also allow for donations to be allocated where they are most needed at that time, which generally leads to higher cost-effectiveness on the margin. Learn more about the advantages of donating to funds.
GWWC’s 2025 Charity Recommendations
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If you’re looking for vetted, cost-effective options this Giving Tuesday (and throughout 2025) check out the newly updated list of our research team’s top recommendations. We think these are among the best places to donate if you’re looking to maximise the impact of your next dollar – and be confident your money is leading to real impact.
These recommendations are informed by the outcomes of our Evaluating the Evaluators project, which you can read more about here.
As we start to wind down towards the end of the year, Giving Tuesday can help us take action on giving back, and help prompt us to finalise our giving before year-end.
So without further ado, here are our 2025 charity and fund recommendations:
Global Health and Wellbeing
All Grants Fund by GiveWell
Top Charities Fund by GiveWell
Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention by Malaria Consortium
Bednets To Prevent Malaria by Against Malaria Foundation
Vitamin A Supplementation by Helen Keller Intl
Childhood Immunisation Incentives by New Incentives
Can’t decide? Donate to our Global Health and Wellbeing Fund!
Animal Welfare
Movement Grants by Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE)
Animal Welfare Fund by Effective Altruism Funds (EA Funds)
Can’t decide? Donate to our Effective Animal Advocacy Fund!
Reducing Global Catastrophic Risks
Emerging Challenges Fund by Longview Philanthropy
Long-Term Future Fund by Effective Altruism Funds
Can’t decide? Donate to our Risks and Resilience Fund!
What’s changed since last year?
You may notice that our recommendations are similar to last year’s. This is because we base our charity recommendations on the research of vetted, impact-focused evaluators we’ve determined – through our evaluate the evaluators work – are best suited to help donors maximise the impact of their next dollar.
Last year – through investigating six evaluator programs – we determined that we could confidently rely on EA Funds’ Animal Welfare and Long-Term Future funds, Longview’s Emerging Challenges Fund, and GiveWell’s funds and research. This year, we re-evaluated ACE’s Movement Grants and Charity Evaluation Program, and we also evaluated the Founders Pledge Global Health & Development Fund. We determined that of these three, we were only confident recommending the ACE’s Movement Grants program at this time. Read more about our 2024 evaluator research.
We also felt confident that the evaluators whose research we deferred to last year would likely take a similar approach and so maintain similar marginal cost-effectiveness this year, so we’ve kept those recommendations active (though plan to re-evaluate some of these next year at the two-year mark.) That said, we made one exception last year and recommended an individual charity that was not recommended by any of our vetted evaluators – The Humane League. We didn’t feel confident continuing to rely on that recommendation this year without a re-evaluation since we think charity programs can change more quickly than grantmaking programs, so we’ve removed The Humane League from our list (though we still think it’s an option worth considering and you can still donate to it via our donation platform.)
Why funds?
Many of our recommendations are funds. Funds allow donors to pool together money that then will be distributed to projects or charities that are chosen by expert fund managers. This allows donors to access donation opportunities they might not otherwise get access to, like supporting specific grants such as funding the rollout of the malaria vaccine in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. Funds also allow for donations to be allocated where they are most needed at that time, which generally leads to higher cost-effectiveness on the margin. Learn more about the advantages of donating to funds.
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