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Can't decide? Support our Maximum Impact Fund.

Rather than supporting a specific global health and development charity, donors can choose to contribute to our Maximum Impact Fund. We distribute this fund to one of our partner charities on a quarterly basis, according to the advice of independent charity evaluator GiveWell

In making their recommendation, GiveWell takes into account charities’ impact and funding needs, along with the donations they have already received from other sources. Using these criteria, they identify the highest-value funding opportunity amongst the global health and development charities we partner with— some of which are GiveWell top charities.

To date, our Maximum Impact Fund has been allocated to:

Grant DateAmount (NZD)Charity SupportedImpact
April 2021$50,627.83Against Malaria Foundation~11,250 antimalarial bednets
July 2021$47,622.39Against Malaria Foundation~10,500 antimalarial bednets
October 2021$54,987.27Against Malaria Foundation~7,855 antimalarial bednets
March 2022$49,359.75Against Malaria Foundation~7,051 antimalarialbednets
May 2022$129,194.72Against Malaria Foundation~18,876 antimalarial bednets
August 2022$61,004.36Against Malaria Foundation~8,714 antimalarial bednets
October 2022$103,290.58Deworm the World~ 206,581 deworming treatments
January 2023$66,744.07Malaria Consortium~ 9,534 SMC treatments
May 2023$95,438.08New Incentives~ 672 babies fully vaccinated
July 2023$67,822.88Unlimit Health~42,000 deworming treatments
October 2023$64,382.65 Malaria Consortium~5,347 SMC treatments
February 2024$83,230.91 Malaria Consortium~7,200 SMC treatments
April 2024$185,450.58 Malaria Consortium~15,630 SMC treatments
August 2024$93,148.21 Helen Keller Intl~28,843 vitamin A supplements
November 2024$86,630.50 New Incentives~330 babies fully vaccinated

If you made a donation to the Maximum Impact Fund, and would like to know which charity it was granted to, please get in touch. We’d be happy to help you identify it.

Please note that our Maximum Impact Fund is not related to any of GiveWell’s giving funds. For more information about GiveWell and its giving funds, see the FAQs below.

FAQs

  • GiveWell is an independent charity evaluator that aims to help people do as much good as possible with their donations. They recommend a short list of top charities that they update annually. All of their research is free and available to the public.

  • No. GiveWell’s Top Charities Fund only goes to the organisations on their list of top charities. Their All Grants Fund could go to any funding opportunity that meets their cost effectiveness bar.

    Our Maximum Impact Fund is somewhere in the middle. It could go to any of the organisation we partner with, some (but not all) of which are GiveWell top charities.

  • Tax-deductibility is the main benefit. Donations made via our Maximum Impact Fund are eligible for a 33% tax credit, while donations made via GiveWell are not tax deductible in New Zealand.

    (See our step-by-step guide for details of how to claim your donation tax credit.)