Last year I ran this post about effective altruism funds. As I wrote in that post:
I’m using “fund” as a bit of a term of art here. A “fund” is when you donate to a specific grantmaker, and they donate the money as they see fit. Grantmakers specialize in charity evaluation, so they’re more likely to know about new exciting opportunities, to know which charities are unexpectedly poorly or skillfully run, and to be able to assess complex data about which interventions are best.
If you know about a fund I don’t know about, please drop a link in the comments. I also appreciate any additional information you have that might be relevant to donation decisions (especially red flags at any fund). I intend to keep this reasonably up-to-date and to rerun the post every year to help guide donation decisions.
If you’re a grantmaker, I encourage you to consider starting your own fund! More competition means more choices for donors and higher standards for grantmakers. I think it’d be particularly cool to see more funds with a unique mission, like the Patient Philanthropy Fund or the Incubated Charities Fund.
I’m updating my list for this year. If you know of any new funds or relevant facts about older funds, please let me know in the comment section. Thank you!
Perhaps the most important new development is Giving What We Can's reviews of several funds, which people considering donating to said funds should probably take a look at: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/en-US/why-and-how-gwwc-evaluates-the-evaluators#how-we-chose-which-evaluators-to-investigate-in-2023
Giving What We Can also has its own funds now (one each for global poverty, animal welfare, and longtermism), but they actually say in advance which orgs they're going to regrant those funds to, so this is more like "a convenient way to defer to GWWC's recommendations as explained in the above reviews" than the "give experts more flexibility" model of the other funds.
The Longtermism Fund is now called the Emerging Challenges Fund.
Longview also now has a Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund: https://www.longview.org/fund/nuclear-weapons-policy-fund/
Giving Green now has their own fund: https://www.givinggreen.earth/give
The Life You Can Save has seven different funds: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/cause-funds/
There's also some stuff about tax deductions but it's more boring so I'm relegating it to a separate comment.