Our inclusion criteria
How we choose high-impact charities to support
Effective Altruism Australia exists to help your resources go further in helping others. As part of this, we provide information and infrastructure for donors to find and fund the most impactful charities.
Here’s how we decide which charities we recommend and support on our website.
In March 2026, we announced that we are adopting a new strategy, which is described below.If you’d like details on the previous criteria, please email us to get in touch.
Criteria for being a supported charity, nonprofit, or fund
To ensure we are truly directing Australians to the best available evidence, EAA and EAAE will be shifting away from maintaining our own curated partner list.
Moving forward, our platform will focus exclusively on three pillars of high-impact giving:
- The global health specialists: GiveWell
We will align our global health and poverty recommendations with GiveWell. Their world-leading research identifies charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar. - The climate change specialists: Giving Green
We will align our climate recommendations with Giving Green, aligning with their rigorous assessment of high-impact climate initiatives. This applies to our sister charity: Effective Altruism Australia Environment. - The global cash benchmark: GiveDirectly
In the field of evidence-based development, unconditional cash transfers serve as the foundational “benchmark” against which other interventions are measured. While we rely on evaluators to identify programs that are more cost-effective than cash, we believe retaining the “gold standard” of cash transfers provides a vital baseline option for Australian donors. Therefore, we will retain GiveDirectly as a foundational partner.
By narrowing our focus to these three pillars, we are playing to our strengths. EAA can focus on what we do best—advocating for effective giving and enabling tax-deductible donations for Australians—while relying on some of the world’s best external evidence bases to support us in determining where those funds should go.