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Overhead is a poor measure of charity quality

A standard but flawed approach to choosing charities looks at overhead and the proportion of giving that reaches recipients, rather than at efficiency, efficacy, or actual impact—a method many charity-rating websites use and that distinguishes them from GiveWell's impact-based selection.

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Speaker

Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

There are websites that they'll grade charities--typically have things like overhead, again, not efficiency or efficacy or impact

Source

Elie Hassenfeld on GiveWellEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:29:30 AM

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