Coefficient Giving’s Largest Grant Ever: $276 Million, Co-Funded With GiveWell, to the Against Malaria Foundation
Coefficient Giving’s Largest Grant Ever: $276 Million, Co-Funded With GiveWell, to the Against Malaria Foundation
The combined $276 million grant — $212 million from Coefficient Giving and $64 million from GiveWell — will pay for bed nets in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where malaria remains one of the leading causes of death for young children.
SAN FRANCISCO – Today, Coefficient Giving announced its largest grant ever: $276 million, co-funded with GiveWell, to support the Against Malaria Foundation’s (AMF) net campaigns in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Coefficient Giving is providing $212 million, funded by Good Ventures, the foundation of Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz. GiveWell, which researched and recommended the grant, is contributing the remaining $64 million.
A portion of this grant draws from Coefficient Giving’s 2026 allocation to GiveWell’s recommendations, which it recently raised from $175 million to $1 billion — nearly double what it has directed to GiveWell’s recommendations over the previous decade combined. Coefficient Giving described the increase as a “one-off surge rather than a new steady state, driven most notably by our growing expectations of future giving from Good Ventures and other funders.”
“Bed nets to reduce the risk of malaria are among the most cost-effective ways we know of to save a child’s life, and few places need them more than the DRC,” said Otis Reid, executive director of Global Health & Wellbeing at Coefficient Giving. “We’re grateful to AMF for taking on this challenge and to GiveWell for their exceptionally thorough investigation.”
In the DRC, roughly one in 12 children dies before their fifth birthday. GiveWell attributes more than half of those deaths to malaria, among the highest share of any country it has examined. Around 11% of the world’s total malaria deaths occur in the DRC, partly because its climate leaves no real “offseason” for transmission.
The grant will buy some 90 million insecticide-treated nets, to be distributed across the DRC between 2027 and 2029. That’s enough for nearly every household to receive nets at least once over that period, plus a second round in five of the highest-burden areas, contingent on agreement from the DRC’s national malaria program. GiveWell estimates these activities will avert roughly 67,000 deaths, most of them among children under five.
Without this grant, 10 of the DRC’s 26 provinces would have gone into the 2027-2029 campaign cycle unfunded. AMF will now run campaigns in all 26.