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Charity evaluators
Charity evaluators play a crucial role in identifying and recommending effective charities, ensuring that resources are directed where they can have the greatest impact. Evaluating charities is inherently complex, given the vast number of organizations and the multifaceted nature of their work. To address this, we rely on a diverse set of evaluators, each focusing on different aspects of an organization’s performance—such as financial efficiency, transparency, long-term impact, and alignment with specific causes. By drawing from multiple perspectives, we aim to provide a more comprehensive and balanced assessment, minimizing biases and ensuring that donor contributions achieve maximum effectiveness. We strongly advise to donate through such charities or national EA foundations.
Goal 2 : No Poverty
You want to know your donations are actually reaching people in need, which is why we do the work to make it easy for you to identify where your gifts will be most impactful. We look at the data to determine the best interventions across the many dimensions of poverty. Then we identify the highest-impact charities delivering those interventions, ensuring that we are helping the most in need, in the best known ways possible. With our research-backed recommendations and ongoing evaluation, you have best-in-class giving advice readily accessible to support you on your impact journey.
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The life you can save was evaluated by :
The Life You Can Save has a public framework of how they evaluate charity's. They base theyr evaluation on depth, scale and durability but they also look at other parameters.
We are a global research and policy nonprofit committed to reducing global poverty with evidence. With a network of partners and researchers, we design and test innovative solutions, support our partners to generate and use data and evidence, and help bring proven approaches to scale across the globe.
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IPA was assessed by :
IPA evaluates projects scientifically. Theyr data is public. Although they don't evaluate charity's as a hole we believe that theyr evaluation shows strong evidence of efficiency.
Goal 3 : Good health and wellbeing
We search for the charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar. We spend thousands of hours each year reviewing academic evidence and researching different programs to identify the most cost-effective, evidence-backed ones.
We focus on finding and directing funding to a small number of outstanding giving opportunities to help donors save or improve lives the most with their gifts.
Givewell was evaluated by :
Givewell has a public framework of how they evaluate charity's. There criteria are transpareny, room for more funding, cost effectiveness and evidence of effectiveness.
The Happier Lives Institute connects donors, researchers, and policymakers with the most cost-effective opportunities to increase global wellbeing.
Using the latest subjective wellbeing data, we identify the problems that matter most to people and find evidence-based ways to solve them.
Happier Lives Institute has a public framework of how they evaluate charity's. They focus on scale, neglectedness and tractability
Goal 13 : Climate action
Climate change is complex. Giving doesn’t have to be. Giving Green is a guide for individuals and businesses to make more effective climate giving decisions. We help you find evidence-based, cost-effective, and high-leverage organizations that maximize the impact of your climate donations.
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Incubated by Charity entrepreneurship
Giving green has a public framework of how they evaluate charity's. Theyr evaluations are based on 5 steps : identify impact strategies, assess impact strategies, longlist organizations, evaluate funding opportunity, publish recommendations and reassess existing recommendations.
Other charity evaluators
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Our mission is to enable more effective charities to exist in the world. We strive to achieve this goal through our extensive research process and Incubation Program. Nonprofit entrepreneurship is also a highly neglected career opportunity that, fueled by a more analytical, effective-altruist mindset, can lead to cost-effective, evidence-based outcomes that are approximately equivalent to donating ~$200,000 to effective charities per year. It provides a chance to build a portfolio of useful skills and great career capital, and to have high job satisfaction while retaining substantial individual impact.
Charity Entrepreneurship has a public framework of how they evaluate charity's. Theyr criteria are substantially better than our bar to beat, evidence quality, limiting factors, variation and maximally impactful.
​Giving What We Can is working to create a world where giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm. We are a resource hub, community, and force for change. We’re best known for the 10% Pledge, through which ~9,000 people have committed to giving at least 10% of their income to the most effective charities, helping inspire those who can afford it to give what we can to help others. We also do education and outreach about high-impact donations and how to concretely make a difference through effective philanthropy, leveraging thousands of hours of research to help donors find the highest-impact problems and identify the best charities working to solve them. Our community has already donated almost $400 million USD.
Giving what we can has a public framework of how they evaluate charity's. Theyr evaluations are based on other evaluators that they have vetted. These evaluators are GiveWell, EA Funds’ Animal Welfare Fund, EA Funds’ Long-Term Future Fund, Longview’s Emerging Challenges Fund.
We believe entrepreneurs are uniquely placed to transform the world, today and in the future, by using their skills, networks, and resources to tackle huge, seemingly insurmountable problems. However, they often lack the time, tools, or knowledge to direct their charitable giving where it will do the most good. Founders Pledge exists to bridge this gap. We advise on, facilitate, and maximize the impact of our members’ giving. In our vision of the future, the value created by technology benefits those who need it most.
Founders pledge has a public framework of how they evaluate charity's. There criteria are counterfactual thinking, expected value, cost effectiveness, marginal value, bayesian reason, meta-science, judgmental forecasting, rhetorical reasoning, impact multipliers and continuous iteration.
Since 2001, we've empowered millions of donors by providing free access to data, tools, and resources to guide philanthropic decision-making.
With more than 225,000 charities rated, our comprehensive ratings shine a light on the cost-effectiveness and overall health of a charity’s programs, including measures of stability, efficiency, and sustainability. The metrics inform donors of not just where their dollars are going but what their dollars are doing.
Like the organizations we rate, we're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, too. We don't charge the charities we evaluate, ensuring our ratings remain objective. In turn, we depend on the generosity of individuals, foundations, and corporations to fund our programs.
Charity Navigator has a public framework of how they evaluate charity's. There criteria are Impact & Measurement, Accountability & Finance, Leadership and Adaptability and finaly Culture & Community. As the organisation that has rated the most charity they have a place on this website. Even thow they focus less on evidence and impact than the organisations above, they provide usefull information on other important aspects of organisational health.
Why these charity evaluators ?
​All the Charity evaluator used in this website have a public framework that explains theyr process. As Effective SDG is trying to find the most effective ways of addressing SDG we focus on evaluators that are impact oriented. Nontheless we acknowledge that other aspects of organisations must be assessed. This is why we also provide charity navigator's recommendation when it is available.