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GiveWell | Charity Reviews and ResearchReal change for your dollar

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Truth score

Truth score 84 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: not enough reviews to say

84/ 100

High truth signals

Business details

Category: Charity
Founded: 2007
Registered with: Charity Commission, charity 1196392Matched on the Charity Commission register
Sells: Services
Sells to: The public
Kind of seller: Charity or non-profit
Licensed trade: No licence normally needed
Domain age: 26 years
Address: 1714 Franklin Street #100335 Oakland, CA 94612
Email address: info@givewell.org
Phone number: +1 415-689-5803
Contact page: givewell.org/about/contact
Website: givewell.org
Social media

Customer reviews

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Customer satisfactionNot enough reviews to sayFrom independent reviews, weighed by their number

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Summary

Is givewell.org legit and trustworthy? Truth score 84 out of 100, high truth signals: 6 of 11 public checks clear, 1 not found, 4 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: not enough reviews to say.

We read 3 of its pages: contact, about and privacy. Its website address was registered 26 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles or a customer rating.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

Positives

We read 3 of its pages · contact, about and privacy.
Its website address was registered 26 years ago.
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

Social presence information was not found from our checks.
Reviews information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

What they offer

Real change for your dollar

— GiveWell, in their own words

Getting help

GiveWell offers support and help through their help page, which can be found in the sources below.

SourcesIts homepage General FAQ

How to check if givewell.org is legit

To check if givewell.org is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews, visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about givewell.org; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsBased in the US; serves the US; founded in 2007 (Wikipedia)

Country

Where the company is based: US
Why we believe that: the site's structured data states its country, its terms are governed by the laws of California, its phone number starts +1, its postcode is a US zip code, Wikipedia gives its headquarters as United States
Which countries the company serves: US
Why we believe that: $ prices on its homepage

From Wikipedia

Type (Wikipedia): charitable organization
Founded: 2007
Revenue: 151012759 United States dollar

SourcesWikipedia

Official registersRegistered with the Charity Commission as charity 1196392 since 3 November 2021. Matched on its website and its name.

Charity number: 1196392
Registered since: 3 November 2021
Latest income: £20,450,036
What it does: We promote charities that save and improve lives the most per dollar as identified by the U.S. organisation GiveWell. We raise funds on their behalf and make grants to further their life improving and life saving programs.

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 26 years ago

Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 26 years
Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

Website detailsWe read 3 of its pages: contact, about and privacy

Company contact email is available
Company contact phone number is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +1 415-689-5803
Contact page found: Contact page

What its pages say

Quoted word for word from givewell.org.

In their own words: “This search returns results from both GiveWell's main site and from the GiveWell Blog. GiveWell’s mission is to help people in need as much as we can by researching the most cost‑effective ways to save and improve lives, sharing our work openly, and directing donations to the programs we believe will do the most good. Our grantmaking is rapidly growing, as is our team that supports it.” About page

SourcesHomepage About page Jobs Contact page Privacy page

Reputation and track record

Customer reviewsWe found no page for it on any review website, such as Trustpilot

Platform	Rating	Reviews
Trustpilot	Not found
SmartCustomer	Not found
G2	Not found
Capterra	Not found
Reviews.io	Not found
Feefo	Not found
Trustindex	Not found
Google	Not checked

Visitor trafficIts visitor numbers jumped suddenly into the top 500,000 websites by December 2025: a burst of traffic rather than a steady history

Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 1,000,000 sites
First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 11
Traffic pattern: intermittent
Rank jump in the last 12 months: unlisted to top 500,000 by 2025-12
Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Web history and authorityFound: wikipedia page

Wikipedia page: yes

SourcesWikipedia

Social presenceIts website links to its profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn and X

Platform	Profile	Audience
Facebook	Profile	Unknown
Instagram	Not checked
X	Profile	Unknown
LinkedIn	Profile	Unknown
YouTube	Not checked
TikTok	Not checked

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data

Says it does not sell your personal data.: “We do not sell, rent, or give donor personally identifiable information to any other party not under the employ of, or in a direct advisory or vendorship role to, GiveWell, with one exception: if you give us permission to share your name, contact information, and details of your donation with one or more of our recommended charities.”
Says you can ask it to delete your data.: “Your rights under the GDPR include the right to request access to, transfer of, and rectification or erasure of your personal data; under certain circumstances, you may also have the right to restrict the processing of, or request the deletion of, any personal data that we have processed about you.”

SourceIts privacy policy

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.