Americans gave $617 billion in 2025. About 5 cents of each dollar left the country.
Giving USA 2026 shows record giving, driven by bequests and the stock market. The split by cause says a lot about where the marginal dollar is scarce.
What changed in effective giving, and why it matters for your dollar.
GiveWell lowered its funding bar to 6x. That is good news for donors, and here is why.
The evaluator now funds programs estimated at six times its benchmark, down from eight in November 2025. It means more money is available relative to the very best opportunities, and more programs qualify.
Rich countries cut aid. A Lancet model says 9.4 million more people die by 2030. What one donor can do about it.
US aid is projected to fall 56% from 2023 to 2026, with the UK, Germany and France cutting too. The gap is far bigger than private giving can fill, which is exactly why where you give now matters more.
The biggest funder in evidence-based giving changed its name and passed $1 billion a year
Open Philanthropy became Coefficient Giving in November 2025. The rename signals a shift from spending one couple's fortune to running funds other donors can join.
GiveWell retires 'multiples of cash' and sets its bar at 8x
The evaluator's November 2025 model update replaces its cash-transfer benchmark with a fixed poverty-line yardstick and states its funding threshold as 8 times that benchmark. What changed and what did not.
The malaria vaccine is dropping to $2.99 a dose. Here is what that buys.
A Gavi-UNICEF deal cuts the R21 price by about a quarter from late 2026. It frees roughly $90 million, enough to fully vaccinate about 7 million more children by 2030.
A Lancet study puts the cost of dismantling USAID at 14 million lives by 2030
USAID-funded programs prevented about 92 million deaths from 2001 to 2021, the authors estimate. Their projection for the cuts, and what a private donor should take from it.
Gavi asked for $11.9 billion and got $9 billion. The US gave nothing.
The vaccine alliance's June 25 pledging summit in Brussels fell about a quarter short of its 2026 to 2030 budget after the United States withdrew. What the gap means and what it does not.