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Back to Episodes“GiveWell’s 2025 Grantmaking: Record Grants, Expanded Reach, Crisis Response” by GiveWell
Description
This post was originally published on the GiveWell blog. You can view the original version here.
In our 2025 grantmaking year, GiveWell approved $418 million in grants to highly cost-effective programs in order to save and improve lives as much as we can. Through years of deliberate groundwork, we’ve been growing our research capacity and scope in order to direct substantially more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find. Last year's grantmaking reflects this growth, and we will be continuing an intensive effort this year to scale our ability to partner with donors to help people in need.
Between February 1, 2025, and January 31, 2026, GiveWell approved 131 grants to 69 organizations—the most grants we’ve made in a year so far. This post provides an overview of the kinds of grants we made and the impact we had last year. This was only possible thanks to the generosity of our donors. We’re incredibly grateful for the trust you place in our research and for your partnership in trying to do the most good we can together.
Increased Grantmaking
In 2025, we launched more than 200 formal grant investigations, after reviewing many additional promising opportunities. Tens of [...]
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Outline:
(01:21) Increased Grantmaking
(02:02) Double Our Cost-Effectiveness Threshold
(02:44) Expanded Cause Areas and Reach
(04:19) Urgent Response to Aid Cuts
(05:33) Continuing Our Growth in 2026 and Beyond
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First published:
March 11th, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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