I think it’s more so the latter. Scott Alexander’s ACX Grants gives to a ton of systemic change-flavored stuff (see here), Charity Entrepreneurship / AIM has launched a fair number of orgs that aren’t RCT-based direct delivery charities (policy, effective giving, evaluators, etc), etc to say nothing of longtermist and meta cause areas for which strict experimental control isn’t possible at all.
I think it’s more so the latter. Scott Alexander’s ACX Grants gives to a ton of systemic change-flavored stuff (see here), Charity Entrepreneurship / AIM has launched a fair number of orgs that aren’t RCT-based direct delivery charities (policy, effective giving, evaluators, etc), etc to say nothing of longtermist and meta cause areas for which strict experimental control isn’t possible at all.