“GWWC’s 2025 evaluations of evaluators” by Aidan Whitfield🔸, Giving What We Can🔸

“GWWC’s 2025 evaluations of evaluators” by Aidan Whitfield🔸, Giving What We Can🔸

The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our 2025 round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers!

In this round, we completed two evaluations that will inform our donation recommendations for the 2025 giving season. As with our previous rounds, there are substantial limitations to these evaluations, but we nevertheless think that they are a significant improvement to a landscape in which there were previously no independent evaluations of evaluators’ work.

In this post, we share the key takeaways from our two 2025 evaluations and link to the full reports. In our conclusion, we explain our plans for future evaluations.

Please also see our website for more context on why and how we evaluate evaluators.

We look forward to your questions and comments! (Note: we will respond when we return from leave on the 8th of December)

Key takeaways from each of our 2025 evaluations

The two evaluators included in our 2025 round of evaluating evaluators were:

  • GiveWell (full report)
  • Happier Lives Institute (full report)

GiveWell

Based on our evaluation, we have decided to continue including GiveWell's Top Charities, Top Charities Fund and All Grants Fund in GWWC's [...]

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Outline:

(01:08) Key takeaways from each of our 2025 evaluations

(01:25) GiveWell

(03:18) Happier Lives Institute (HLI)

(06:29) Conclusion and future plans

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First published:
December 1st, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sAiHYuuGGT7qvne5P/gwwc-s-2025-evaluations-of-evaluators

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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