GiveWell

GiveWell

Formation	2007; 17 years ago (2007)
Founders	Holden Karnofsky Elie Hassenfeld
Type	501(c)(3) organization, ruling year 2007[1]
Purpose	Charity evaluation
Location	San Francisco, U.S.
Region	Global
President	Elie Hassenfeld
Website	givewell.org

GiveWell is an American non-profit charity assessment and effective altruism-focused organization. GiveWell focuses primarily on the cost-effectiveness of the organizations that it evaluates, rather than traditional metrics such as the percentage of the organization's budget that is spent on overhead.