What would effective charities actually do with your money?

It's Marginal Funding Week! In order to help us all make better donation decisions this giving season, organisations will be sharing what they would be able to do with extra funding.  If your project is fundraising, consider writing a full post tagged "Marginal Funding Week" or answering below. If your project would like to take part in the Donation Election (beginning next week) posting with the ta...

Update, 3rd July 2026: Please check out our website, https://www.wildanimalwelfare.org, for more info on our work. We are actively fundraising - details on how to make a donation are below, and please feel free to reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions. Thanks!  The Center for Wild Animal Welfare (CWAW) is a new policy advocacy orga...

To a first approximation, all farmed animals are bugs. (Recalling, of course, that shrimps is bugs.) We don’t know much about their needs in current production systems. The Arthropoda Foundation is trying to fix that. If we want to help the most numerous farmed animals,...

Today we’re announcing a new cluster headache advocacy and research initiative: ClusterFree Learn more about how you (and anyone) can help. ...

Written as part of the EA Forum's Marginal Funding Week 2025. Exec Summary I believe there’s a popular perspective in EA that animal welfare organisations can't absorb much more funding — but I actually think there are ambitious megaprojects in the movement (and within Shrimp Welfare Project specifically) that could each absorb millions of dollars.  Shrimp Welfare Project doesn't h...

Read the proposal as a visualized PDF here.  440 billion farmed shrimp, 85 billion chickens, 100 billion farmed fish. These are the staggering numbers of animals raised in factory farms each year—most suffer in systems where their welfare is an afterthought, if considered at all. But 2025 proved that strategic grantmaking can change the...

We are the Centre for Enabling EA Learning and Research (CEEALAR) (formerly known as the ‘EA Hotel’).  Donate directly TLDR * Minimum critical need: £30k for essential roof repairs to prevent building damage. * Full 2026 budget:...

I lead Forethought: we research how to navigate the transition to superintelligent AI, and then help people to address the issues we identify. I think we might soon be funding constrained, in the sense that we’ll have more people that we’d like to hire than funding to hire them. (We’re currently in the middle of a hiring round. While we’re still evaluating candidates, we’ve been pleasantly pleased with our applicant pool, and we thi...

AMF has had a busy 12 months distributing 25.4 million nets to protect 46 million people. In 2026 we will be distributing 69 million nets to protect 124 million people. Our immediate funding gap currently stands at US$462 million and is for distributions in 2027 to 2029. More information here. There are significant opportunities in front of our team of 15...

TLDR:  * Rethink Priorities has room for more funding. With a core budget for 2026 of $7.5 million, we believe that we can productively use at least $9.3 million to scale high-leverage opportunities in our areas of global health and development, animal welfare, worldview investigations (including AI and digital minds), and surveys. * Unrestricted funding is most valuable, as it enables the entire organization to...