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GiveWell’s 2025 Grantmaking
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 find.
Last year’s grantmaking reflects this growth: Between February 1, 2025, and January 31, 2026, GiveWell approved $418 million in grants to save and improve lives as much as we can. This funding was directed via 131 grants to 69 organizations—more than double the number of grants and double the number of organizations from the prior year.
In our recent blog post, we look back at the numbers behind our 2025 grantmaking, and ahead to the ways we’ll continue scaling our work with donors this year.
Our growing research team is increasingly able to find a wider variety of highly impactful programs and cause areas to support in global health and development. GiveWell grants in 2025 supported programs across a range of cause areas in 30 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Malaria prevention and treatment was the largest area of our grantmaking over the last year, followed by vaccination programs, malnutrition treatment, and programs to provide safe water.
We’re grateful for the more than 30,000 donors whose generosity allowed us to direct funding in 2025 to highly cost-effective programs. In 2026, we plan to grant at least $500 million—and continue strengthening our team, systems, and processes to help people in need even more in the future.
Testing New Strategies to Increase Vaccination Coverage
GiveWell has long recognized the potential for highly cost-effective vaccine programs. We started supporting vaccination programs in 2015 and have made over $200 million in vaccination-related grants to date. Over the past several years, we’ve been laying the groundwork to expand the scope of our work and funding.
In our latest podcast episode, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Natalie Crispin to discuss how our research approach has evolved and what it means for helping more children access life-saving vaccinations.
Elie and Natalie cover:
Moving from finding programs to solving problems: In the past, GiveWell primarily looked for specific, evidence-backed program types to support—such as conditional cash transfers