Where Coefficient Giving Staff Are Making Personal Donations in 2025
Suggestions for Individual Donors
/December 23, 2025
We publish blog posts to explain our general philosophy on giving, reflect on our progress thus far, announce our plans for the future, and more.
Blogs
Suggestions for Individual Donors from Coefficient Giving Staff – 2025
Suggestions for Individual Donors
/December 19, 2025
The 2025 edition of our annual tradition: a list of giving opportunities suggested by Coefficient Giving program staff.
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Allocating $175M to GiveWell’s Recommendations for 2026
This post lays out why we've chosen to renew our support for GiveWell’s recommendations; we think it's an outstanding resource and we’re proud to support the organizations it has identified.
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Press Release: Open Philanthropy Becomes Coefficient Giving, Expanding Work With Multiple Donors
Announcements
/November 18, 2025
Change reflects organization’s growing role as advisor to many major philanthropists Coefficient Giving has directed more than $4 billion in giving since 2014 SAN FRANCISCO – Today, philanthropic funder and advisor Open Philanthropy announced it is becoming Coefficient Giving, reflecting its evolution from working primarily with one philanthropic partner to...
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Open Philanthropy Is Now Coefficient Giving
Our new name marks our next chapter as we double down on our longstanding goal of helping more funders increase their impact. We believe philanthropy can be a far more vital force for progress than it is today.
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The Story Behind Our New Name
A coefficient multiplies the value of whatever it’s paired with, just as we aim to amplify impact through our research, grantmaking, and partnerships. We knew that any name would take some getting used to, but this one captured something essential about our work.
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Strategic Cause Selection
Reflections
/November 18, 2025
Philanthropists tend to choose causes based on personal experience, geographic proximity, or emotional appeal. This approach is understandable — personal connection is what motivates many people to give in the first place. But some causes offer far greater opportunities for impact than others: the same donation might save ten lives in one place but a thousand in another.
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Hits-Based Giving
Reflections
/November 18, 2025
One of our core values is our tolerance for philanthropic risk. We’ve seen that the biggest philanthropic wins often come from ideas that seem unlikely to succeed, so we’re open to funding a lot of work that could fail in order to find a few transformative successes.
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Cost-Effectiveness
Reflections
/November 18, 2025
Measuring cost-effectiveness helps us compare very different opportunities and direct funding to where it can do the most good.
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Worldview Diversification
Reflections
/November 18, 2025
When choosing which causes to support, we face difficult moral and empirical questions without clear "right" answers. To address this uncertainty, we divide resources across several broad approaches to doing good, each grounded in a different worldview.
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