The Giving Green Grantmaking Fund addresses climate change by supporting a research-backed selection of high-impact climate giving opportunities.
Giving Green is a team of climate scientists, economists, and impact evaluation experts with decades of experience working at the intersection of evidence-based policy and the environment.
Giving Green's primary activity is conducting research to identify cost-effective giving opportunities in climate. It assesses the landscape of climate philanthropy to identify important, tractable, and neglected interventions, and assesses organisations working on those interventions for their theory of change, cost-effectiveness, and room for more funding.
The Giving Green Fund primarily supports Giving Green’s Top Nonprofits, which will be updated dynamically as new evidence emerges. The Giving Green team will recommend strategic grants from the fund based on the supported organisations’ funding needs and opportunities. The Giving Green Fund may also support other high-impact climate work in areas identified as important, tractable, and neglected. For example, past grantmaking priorities have included industrial decarbonization, reducing livestock emissions, and supporting the energy transition in low- and middle-income countries. This may include making strategic grants to projects outside of Giving Green’s Top Nonprofits.
We don't currently have further information about the cost-effectiveness of the Giving Green Fund beyond it doing work in a high-impact cause area and taking a reasonably promising approach.
We have varying degrees of information about the cost-effectiveness of our supported programs. We have more information about programs that impact-focused evaluators (some of which our research team expects to investigate soon as part of their evaluator investigations) have looked into, as well as programs that we’ve previously included on our list of recommended charities. We think it’s important to share the information we have with donors as we expect it will be useful in their donation decisions, but don’t want donors to mistakenly overweight the extent to which we share information about some charities and not others. Therefore, we want to clarify two things: