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| 2009 || January || Staff || GiveWell Board of Directors' member Ari Herman joins the organization.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ari Herman |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/ari-herman-a04b011/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=19 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 2009|| March || External review citation || Australian philosopher {{w|Peter Singer}} publishes ''{{w|The Life You Can Save}}''. Singer writes: {{Quote|When I speak about why we ought to be doing more to help the world's poorest people — something I do often — the most frequent question I get is: how can we know that our donation will really help the poor? Until GiveWell came along, it was difficult to give a convincing answer to that question. Previous charity-rating organizations just looked at how much of a charity's income went to program expenses, rather than administration - and it doesn't take much thought to realize that that figure tells you nothing about how effective the charity's programs are. GiveWell has filled a huge gap, and at the same time has started a major trend towards greater transparency and demonstrated cost-effectiveness in the charitable world.}}<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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| 2009 || July || Staff || Natalie Crispin joins GiveWell as a Research Analyst.<ref>{{cite web |title=Natalie Crispin |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-crispin-31b87717/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=18 February 2020}}</ref>
| 2010 || August–November || Site visit || GiveWell's staff visits Mumbai, India from mid-August to the end of November, and visits a number of organizations in Mumbai and other cities in the country.<ref>{{cite web|title=India Site Visits: August-November 2010|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/site-visits/india-fall-2010|website=www.givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>
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| 2010 || November 20 || External review citation || Nicholas Kristof at {{w|The New York Times}} writes: {{Quote|Philanthropy has made huge strides in the last couple of decades, with far more emphasis on cost-effective interventions that are scalable to bring about change. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has helped lead the way, and Web sites like Givewell.org guide small-time donors.}}<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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| 2010 || November 30 || External citation || {{w|GiveWell}} is featured by {{w|USA Today}} as a donor resource.<ref>{{cite web |title=How to research a charity before donating your money |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2010-11-30-yourmoney30_ST_N.htm |website=usatoday.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
| 2011 || September 8 || Partnership || GiveWell Labs is announced as a new initiative within GiveWell. A collaboration between private foundation {{w|Good Ventures}} and GiveWell, the purpose of it is to “systematically examine a wide variety of causes and opportunities with the intention of identifying the ones which could use additional money ... to produce the best long-run outcomes.”<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tuna|first1=Cari|title=Update on Open Philanthropy Project|url=https://disqus.com/by/Cari_Tuna/|website=disqus.com|accessdate=28 November 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || September 28 || External review citation || Paul Sullivan at {{w|The New York Times}} publishes an article on measuring the impact of giving, featuring GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Paul |title=Philanthropists Weigh the Returns of Doing Good |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=30 March 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/your-money/measuring-the-impact-of-impact-investing-wealth-matters.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0}}</ref>
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| 2011 || October || Site visit || GiveWell staff visits five organizations in {{w|Malawi}} and four in {{w|India}} as part of its research process to identify top-rated charities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Site Visits: October 2011|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/site-visits/october-2011|website=givewell.org|accessdate=10 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="Charity Site Visits">{{cite web|title=Charity Site Visits|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/site-visits|website=givewell.org|accessdate=21 December 2017}}</ref>
* Small Enterprise Foundation (Microloans for women in {{w|South Africa}})<ref>{{cite web|title=Top Charities - November 2011 Archived Version|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities/November-2011|website=givewell.org|accessdate=3 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2011 || November 20 || External review citation || Gareth Cook at {{w|The Boston Globe}} writes: {{Quote|As we enter into the prime giving season, GiveWell provides a valuable service for the donor who has few preconceptions and just wants to make the world better.}}<ref name="What Others Are Saying">{{cite web |title=What Others Are Saying |url=https://www.givewell.org/about/what-others-are-saying |website=givewell.org |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2011 || November 23 || External review citation || Alexandra Wolfe at {{w|Bloomberg Bussinesweek}} writes: {{Quote|When bonus season came around, instead of deciding whether to buy a new suit, car, or a Caribbean vacation, hedge fund analysts Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, both then 25, agonized over which charities to donate to. They put so much time and effort into figuring it out that they eventually left their jobs… to start GiveWell, a nonprofit that evaluates charities with hedge-fund–level rigor.}}<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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| 2011 || December 3 || External review citation || Nicholas Kristof at {{w|The New York Times}} features GiveWell recommending its top charity and citing GiveWell's research.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gifts That Say You Care |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/kristof-gifts-that-say-you-care.html?_r=2 |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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| 2012 || February || Publication || GiveWell's 2011 Review and Plan is published.<ref name="Our Progress to Date"/>
| 2012 || June || Partnership || Private foundation {{w|Good Ventures}} (founded by Cari Tuna and her husband, {{w|Facebook}} co-founder {{w|Dustin Moskovitz}}) announces a close partnership with GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web|title=GiveWell and Good Ventures|url=https://blog.givewell.org/2012/06/28/givewell-and-good-ventures/|website=blog.givewell.org|accessdate=18 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz: Young Silicon Valley billionaires pioneer new approach to philanthropy|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/billionaire-couple-give-plenty-to-charity-but-they-do-quite-a-bit-of-homework/2014/12/26/19fae34c-86d6-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html?utm_term=.06ac6743051b|website=washingtonpost.com|accessdate=18 December 2017}}</ref> The joint collaboration would later lead to the formation of the Open Philanthropy Project, whose mission is to figure out how, exactly to figure out the best possible way to use large sums of money to do as much good as possible.<ref>{{cite web|title=You have $8 billion. You want to do as much good as possible. What do you do?|url=https://www.vox.com/2015/4/24/8457895/givewell-open-philanthropy-charity|website=vox.com|accessdate=18 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || November 13 || External review citation || William MacAskill from {{w|Giving What We Can}} publishes post enitled "Researching What We Should", which highlights GiveWell as top evaluator in some areas of research.<ref>{{cite web |last1=MacAskill |first1=William |title=RESEARCHING WHAT WE SHOULD |url=https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2012/11/researching-what-we-should/ |website=givingwhatwecan.org |accessdate=27 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2012 || November || Site visit || GiveWell staff travels to {{w|Kenya}} as part of its research process to identify top-rated charities, with the primary purpose of visiting {{w|GiveDirectly}}. The staff also visits two projects run by Evidence Action.<ref>{{cite web|title=Site Visits: November 2012|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/site-visits/november-2012|website=givewell.org|accessdate=21 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="Charity Site Visits"/>
* {{w|Schistosomiasis Control Initiative}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Our top charities for the 2012 giving season|url=https://blog.givewell.org/2012/11/26/our-top-charities-for-the-2012-giving-season/|website=givewell.org|accessdate=3 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || December 5 || External review citation || Tina Rosemberg at {{w|The New York Times}} features GiveWell in an article on giving effectively.<ref>{{cite web |title=Putting Charities to the Test |url=https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/putting-charities-to-the-test/?mtrref=undefined&gwh=6E490577E52C60F4BB3DEAB912E20395&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL |website=opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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| 2012 || December 19 || Cost-effectiveness analysis || GiveWell publishes post discussing how they see the relative “bang-for-the-buck” – good accomplished per dollar spent – of three interventions: distribution of insecticide-treated nets to fight malaria, unconditional direct cash transfers, and treating children for parasites ([[w:Soil-transmitted helminthiasis|soil-transmitted helminths]] and {{w|schistosomiasis}}).<ref>{{cite web |title=Cost-effectiveness of nets vs. deworming vs. cash transfers |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2012/12/19/cost-effectiveness-of-nets-vs-deworming-vs-cash-transfers/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=27 March 2020}}</ref>
| 2012 || December 24 || External review || William MacAskill from {{w|Giving What We Can}} publishes post enitled "Some General Concerns About Givewell" which summarizes a list of concerns and recommendations on a variety of points, including long run effects, external evaluation, and meaning of GiveWell's labels and rating.<ref>{{cite web |title=SOME GENERAL CONCERNS ABOUT GIVEWELL |url=https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2012/12/some-general-concerns-about-givewell/ |website=givingwhatwecan.org |accessdate=27 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2012 || December 27 || External review citation || Ken Stern at {{w|The Washington Post}} writes: {{Quote|On average, Americans spend more time watching television in one day than they do researching charities in an entire year. Finding good charities takes time. It means using the few organizations, such as GiveWell, that do in-depth studies of charities' effectiveness. And it means remembering that the best organizations, charitable or otherwise, are built on more than a good story or a charismatic leader.}}<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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| 2013 || January || Administration || GiveWell moves its offices to {{w|San Francisco}}.<ref name="That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Relationship Disclosures|url=https://www.givewell.org/about/official-records/relationship-disclosures|website=givewell.org|accessdate=8 January 2018}}</ref>
| 2013 || March || Staff || Brigid Slipka joins GiveWell as Board Member.<ref name="Brigid Slipka">{{cite web |title=Brigid Slipka |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/brigidslipka/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=19 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 2013 || May 31 || External review citation || Dylan Matthews at {{w|The Washington Post}} publishes an article featuring GiveWell as a resource for donors.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Join Wall Street. Save the world. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/31/join-wall-street-save-the-world/?arc404=true |website=washingtonpost.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2013 || June 19 || Interview || {{w|KQED-FM}} radio station features GiveWell research analyst Alexander Berger on a segment about how to decide where to donate to charity.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Exposing America's Worst Charities |url=https://www.kqed.org/forum/201306190900/exposing-americas-worst-charities |website=kqed.org |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
| 2013 || November 4 || External review || Nick Beckstead at {{w|80,000 Hours}} publishes blog post entitled "Thoughts on my experience working at GiveWell". Beckstead writes: {{Quote|Who would be a good fit to work at GiveWell? Someone who likes research, pays a lot of attention to detail, is obsessed with effective altruism, enjoys (or at least can handle) highly critical feedback, is extremely intelligent and hardworking, is willing to work for very low pay relative to their earning potential, is OK with limited job security, enjoys intellectually challenging work, and likes doing a variety of different things.}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beckstead |first1=Nick |title=Thoughts on my experience working at GiveWell |url=https://80000hours.org/2013/11/thoughts-on-my-experience-working-at-givewell/ |website=80000hours.org |accessdate=29 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2013 || December 15 || External review citation || Farhad Manjoo at {{w|The Wall Street Journal}} writes: {{Quote|GiveWell [...] has completely changed the way I think about donating money.}}<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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| 2013 || December || Charity ranking || GiveWell announces its top charities for giving season 2014:
| 2014 || March || Grantmaking || Good Ventures awards a grant of US$240,000 to GiveWell for general operating support, with the purpose to increase the availability of high-quality information and analysis about charities and giving opportunities.<ref>{{cite web|title=GiveWell — General Support|url=http://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/givewell-general-support-march-2014|website=goodventures.org|accessdate=30 November 2017}}</ref>
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| 2014 || April 25 || External review citation || Ron Lieber at The New York Times features GiveWell in an article on the challenges of giving effectively.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lieber |first1=Ron |title=Donating, and Making Sure the Money Is Put to Work |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/your-money/giving-away-money-and-making-sure-its-put-to-work.html?_r=0 |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2014 || May || Staff || Taylor Smith joins GiveWell as Content Editor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Taylor Smith |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-smith-93337b14a/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=18 February 2020}}</ref>
| 2014 || August || Staff || Devin Jacob joins GiveWell as Operations Associate.<ref>{{cite web |title=Devin Jacob |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/devin-jacob-53021950/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=18 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 2014 || September 7 || External review citation || Tim Harford on {{w|BBC Radio 4}} program [[w:More or Less (radio programme)|More or less]] features GiveWell's research as an alternative to a social media fundraising campaign.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/><ref>{{cite web |title=To ice or not to ice? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g1drf |website=bbc.co.uk |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2014 || September || Grantmaking || {{w|Good Ventures}} makes a US$34,382 grant to IDinsight, as part of GiveWell's project to support the development of top charities.<ref>{{cite web|title=IDinsight — Scaling Up a High-Potential Development Intervention|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/IDinsight/september-2014-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=12 December 2017}}</ref>
| 2015 || March, April || Publication || GiveWell's 2014 Review and Plan is published.<ref name="Our Progress to Date"/>
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| 2015 || May 23 || External review citation || Neil Webb at {{w|The Economist}} publishes article on impact-driven philanthropy entitled "Doing good by doing well", featuring GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web |title=Doing good by doing well |url=https://www.economist.com/international/2015/05/21/doing-good-by-doing-well |website=economist.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2015 || April || Partnership || Open Philanthropy Project announces a partnership with Kaitlyn Trigger and {{w|Mike Krieger}} (co-founder of {{w|Instagram}}).
| 2015 || June || Staff || Julia Wise joins GiveWell as a Board Member.<ref>{{cite web |title=Julia Wise |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliawise/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=18 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 2015 || June 15 || External review citation || Derek Thompson at The Atlantic writes: {{Quote|Philosophically, the most difficult task facing GiveWell is putting the vast spectrum of human suffering into numbers. It is, in a way, a math problem, but one laden with value judgments, about which reasonable people can disagree.}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The Greatest Good |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-the-greatest-good/395768/ |website=theatlantic.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2015 || July || Site visit || GiveWell staff travels to {{w|Ethiopia}} to visit the work on universal [[w:Iodised salt|salt iodization]] being carried out by the {{w|Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Site visit: July 2015|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/site-visits/july-2015|website=givewell.org|accessdate=21 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="Charity Site Visits"/>
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| 2015 || September || Staff || Tracy Williams joins GiveWell as a Research Analyst.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tracy Williams |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-williams-99641a99/ |website=linkedin.com |accessdate=18 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 2015 || October 23 || External citation || Alexandra Zaslow at ''[[w:Today (American TV program)|Today]]'' publishes article about Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman, a couple notable for donating half of income every year to charity. Wise and Kaufman cite GiveWell as their source for picking out charities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Couple donates half of income every year to treat world health |url=https://www.today.com/news/couple-donates-half-income-every-year-treat-world-health-t51916 |website=today.com |accessdate=31 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2015 || November 18 || || GiveWell Community launches as a {{w|Facebook}} group.<ref>{{cite web |title=GiveWell Community |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/GiveWellCommunity/about/ |website=facebook.com |accessdate=23 February 2020}}</ref>
| 2017 || November 27 || Cost-effectiveness analysis || GiveWell publishes the fifth version of its 2017 Cost-Effectiveness Analyses.<ref name="givewell.orgen"/> Among the changes, it presents updated cost figures for most of GiveWell's recommended charities and the implementation of a new process for adjusting cost-effectiveness estimates based on the expected behavior of other funders.<ref>{{cite web |title=2017 GiveWell cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) — Version 5 |url=https://files.givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/Interventions/CEA_release_notes_2017_V5.pdf |website=files.givewell.org |accessdate=27 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || November 27 || External review citation || Nurith Aizenman at {{w|NPR}} publishes article entitled "On #GivingTuesday, How To Get The Most Bang For Your Charity Buck", featuring GiveWell.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/><ref>{{cite web |title=On #GivingTuesday, How To Get The Most Bang For Your Charity Buck |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/11/27/566814277/on-givingtuesday-how-to-get-the-most-bang-for-your-charity-buck |website=npr.org |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || November 28 || External review citation || Carl Richards at {{w|The New York Times}} publishes guide entitled "How to Make a Personal Plan for Giving" which describes GiveWell as a resource for “The Spreadsheet Method of Giving” (calculating altruistic return on investment).<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/><ref>{{cite web |title=How to Make a Personal Plan for Giving |url=https://www.nytimes.com/guides/smarterliving/giving-tuesday-how-to-give |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || November 28 || Advocacy || {{w|Elie Hassenfeld}} shares his advice for giving effectively in a video from NowThis Politics.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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| 2017 || December 4 || External review citation || Financial blogger {{w|Mr. Money Mustache}} includes GiveWell in his article on tips for giving to charities.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/><ref>{{cite web |title=How to Give Money (and Get Happiness) More Easily |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190315154932/https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/12/04/how-to-give-money-and-get-happiness-more-easily/ |website=web.archive.org |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || Fourth quarter || Funding || GiveWell receives US$5.6 million in funding for making grants at its discretion.<ref>{{cite web |title=Allocation of discretionary funds from Q4 2017 |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2018/04/06/allocation-of-discretionary-funds-from-q4-2017/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=4 December 2019}}</ref>
| 2018 || May || Staff || GiveWell Senior Fellow Dan Brown joins the organization.<ref name="staff">{{cite web |title=Staff |url=https://www.givewell.org/about/people |website=givewell.org |accessdate=18 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || June 2 || External review citation || GiveWell is featured by ''{{w|The Economist}}'' in an article about {{w|effective altruism}}.<ref name="What Others Are Saying"/>
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| 2018 || June || Staff || Ben Bateman joins GiveWell as its first-ever Head of Growth.<ref name="Review of GiveWell’s work in 2018"/>
| 2018 || December || Administration || GiveWell updates its donations processing and announces it is accepting donations in {{w|Bitcoin}}, {{w|Bitcoin Cash}},{{W|Ethereum}}, {{W|Ethereum Classic}}, {{w|Litecoin}}, and 0x.<ref name="We’ve added more options"/>
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| 2018 || December 25 || External review citation || Dylan Matthews at ''[[w:Vox (website)|Vox]]'' writes: {{Quote|It's of course possible to research charity options yourself, but it's probably better to outsource that labor to a careful, methodologically rigorous charity recommender like GiveWell.}}<ref>{{cite web |title=These are the charities where your money will do the most good |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190318204822/https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9826838/best-charities-donate-2018-giving-tuesday |website=web.archive.org |accessdate=30 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || Fourth quarter || Funding || Donors give a combined US$7.6 million in funding to GiveWell for making grants at its discretion.<ref name="March 2019"/>
