“Updates on the effective giving ecosystem (MCF 2025 memo)” by Luke Moore 🔸, Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸
Description
Written by Lucas Moore (Partnerships Manager) and Sjir Hoeijmakers (CEO), Giving What We Can.
This memo provides updates on and a high-level overview of the effective giving landscape as of mid-2025, adapted from an earlier memo for Effective Giving Summit in June 2025. It is based largely on information gathered through our 2025 EG ecosystem pulse survey and builds on the memos we wrote for the MCF last year: 1, 2, 3, 4. Please leave a comment if you’d like us to clarify anything further. All figures are in USD.
Background
The effective giving ecosystem features an interdependent network of over 60 organisations trying to direct philanthropic resources to where they can do the most good, inspired by effective altruism principles and concepts such as cost-effectiveness, cause prioritisation and counterfactuality.
Within this ecosystem, there are organisations identifying high-impact philanthropic opportunities (evaluators) and organisations fundraising for them (fundraisers). Many [...]
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Outline:
(01:24 ) Key updates
(07:35 ) Overview of the ecosystem
(09:33 ) How much money is moved to high-impact destinations
(11:59 ) Where money goes
(13:54 ) Where operational funding comes from
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First published:
September 12th, 2025
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
United States
