Learning, Experimentation, and Exploration

We are interested in one-off high-impact opportunities and grants that support the development of potential future top charities.

While GiveWell’s top charities typically have a strong evidence base, there are other organizations and interventions that have very high potential cost-effectiveness but are either standalone opportunities or need seed-stage support to develop a track record of impact so that we (or others) can help scale them up. Grants we’ve made in this category include academic research to build the evidence base for a promising program, early-stage seed funding for a promising organization, support for monitoring and evaluation of an existing organization, or interim or stopgap funding for particularly high-impact opportunities.