They also publicly list their chosen most effective charities, so you can always donate to those directly instead of through GiveWell. I'd imagine this is commo

They also publicly list their chosen most effective charities, so you can always donate to those directly instead of through GiveWell. I'd imagine this is common, and a lot of additional external donations result from their research. They try to estimate their overall impact here: https://www.givewell.org/about/impact https://www.givewell.org/about/impact. Also, feel free to disagree, but you might find their argument that expense ratios should not be the most important charity metric interesting: https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/01/the-worst-way-to-pick-a-charity/ https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/01/the-worst-way-to-pick-a...