Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the All Grants Fund via Effective Altruism Australia. Your donations help support high-impact grant-making around the world, including the projects outlined below.
We’re pleased to share this update from our partner, GiveWell, highlighting recent grants and research supported through the All Grants Fund. The content below was written by the GiveWell team and is shared here with minor edits for clarity and attribution.
GiveWell All Grants Fund Updates
Global Health Data at Risk
GiveWell’s ability to find and fund highly cost-effective health programs, including those supported by the All Grants Fund, relies on a foundation of credible data. A key source of that data, the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program, recently had its primary funding from USAID discontinued.
Learn more: Listen as GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld and Senior Researcher Adam Salisbury discuss the impact this funding gap could have on evidence-based grantmaking across the global health sector—and how GiveWell are responding.
Expanding GiveWell’s Livelihoods Research
GiveWell have researched and funded livelihoods programs for years—through grants supported in part by donations to the All Grants Fund—but they’re now taking a significant step forward by hiring a dedicated program officer to build on their existing work and lead the search for new cost-effective opportunities.
Learn more: GiveWell dive deeper into the livelihoods interventions that help people in poverty earn more and improve their daily lives in their recent podcast episode with Elie and Senior Program Officer Julie Faller.
Grant Updates
The recent grants below represent just a slice of the All Grants Fund portfolio. Your donation supports a wide range of grants, including direct delivery programs, research, technical assistance to governments, incubation pilots, and more, depending on where GiveWell see the greatest potential for impact.
Featured Grant: Primary Healthcare and Malnutrition Treatment
How it helps: This grant will sustain vital healthcare and malnutrition treatment for a high-mortality population (pregnant women and children under five) across 16 facilities in a conflict-affected region of Far North Cameroon after USAID funding was abruptly cut.
How it works: ALIMA supports government health facilities by providing essential medical supplies and equipment, paying salaries for doctors and nurses, and operating specialized treatment programs. The program delivers a range of proven interventions, from antimalarials to acute malnutrition treatment, and trains local staff in evidence-based protocols for improving health outcomes.
Why this grant: This is a time-sensitive grant after USAID funding was suddenly cancelled this year, putting some of ALIMA’s critical services at risk of shutting down by December 2025. The grant prevents that imminent collapse, ensuring care continues for a high-mortality population where ALIMA provides about two-thirds of the trained medical staff and runs essential services, like the region’s only neonatal unit.
The bottom line: By conducting a rapid investigation, GiveWell was able to respond to this urgent funding need. They estimate these services will reach approximately 45,500 people who would not receive treatment otherwise and avert over 400 deaths.
Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of GiveDirectly
Where: Rural Malawi
What: Data collection for a large-scale RCT of GiveDirectly’s unconditional cash transfer program
Who: University of Oxford
Total: $491,700
How it works: This research will measure the effects of providing unconditional cash transfers of $550—representing 125% of the area’s average annual household income—to 110,000 adults, providing valuable evidence on this approach in lower-income, rural areas.
Why this grant: This research addresses key uncertainties in GiveWell’s analysis of GiveDirectly—primarily whether the spillover benefits of cash transfers found in a prior RCT can be replicated in other contexts—and allows GiveWell to act as an engaged partner, influencing research design and accessing findings early to inform their future grantmaking.
Assessment of Impacts to Vaccine Delivery from US Government Funding Cuts
Where: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, Nigeria
What: A three-month qualitative assessment of how US government funding cuts are impacting key parts of the vaccine delivery system
Who: Results for Development (R4D)
Total: $271,445
How it works: This research addresses a critical lack of on-the-ground information about the real-world consequences of recent US government funding cuts on vaccine delivery, including the effects on vaccinators, fixed-site and outreach sessions, supply chains, and data systems.
Why this grant: The findings will directly influence GiveWell’s vaccines strategy by providing qualitative updates to help us manage existing grants and prioritize future funding.
How GiveWell Use Donations to the All Grants Fund
Donations to the All Grants Fund are allocated on a rolling basis and may go toward any grant that meets their cost-effectiveness threshold. This could include grants to GiveWell Top Charities as well as grants to incubate newer programs, promote policy change, fund relevant scoping and research, or support other initiatives. This includes some that are substantially more uncertain, experimental, or riskier than their Top Charities. While GiveWell are often less certain about the individual grants they make via this fund, they believe that—in aggregate—these grants represent the highest-impact use of marginal funding.
You can learn more about how the fund works and all that your donations make possible on GiveWell’s All Grants Fund page. For more on the full scope of GiveWell’s grantmaking, see this blog post.
Thank you again for your continued support!
