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| 2004 || || Prelude || {{w|Elie Hassenfeld}} graduated graduates from {{w|Columbia University}} with a degree in {{w|Religion}}. As well as Karnofsky, Hassenfeld would spend the next several years in the hedge fund industry.<ref name="GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?"/>

| 2013 || June || Donation Funding || Good Ventures awards a grant of $20,000 to GiveWell to support its capacity to research the history of philanthropy and funding opportunities in policy advocacy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Research into the History of Philanthropy and Policy Advocacy|url=http://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/givewell-research-june-2013|website=goodventures.org|accessdate=1 March 2018}}</ref>

| 2014 || September || Incubation grant 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 || Incubation grant Grantmaking || Good Ventures, with input from GiveWell, awards US$100,000 grant to New Incentives, for general operating support.<ref>{{cite web|title=New Incentives — General Support|url=http://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/new-incentives-general-support|website=goodventures.org|accessdate=12 December 2017}}</ref>

| 2015 || September || Incubation grant Grantmaking || With GiveWell reccommendation, Good Ventures grants US$200,000 to the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the {{w|Massachusetts Institute of Technology}} to support two {{w|randomized controlled trial}}s in {{w|India}} and {{w|Pakistan}} that would test whether providing non-cash incentives increases child immunization rates.<ref>{{cite web|title=J-PAL and IRD — Incentives for Immunization Studies|url=https://www.givewell.org/JPAL-IRD-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=12 December 2017}}</ref>

| 2016 || March || Incubation grant Grantmaking || Following GiveWell’s general effort to support the creation of future top charities, Good Ventures grants US$812,351 to Evidence Action to support the development of additional programs. These funds are expected to develop and implement a program in {{w|Bangladesh}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Evidence Action — No Lean Season|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/evidence-action/march-2016-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=12 December 2017}}</ref> In the same month, Good Ventures grants US$300,000 to New Incentives to support its conditional cash transfers program.<ref>{{cite web|title=New Incentives — General Support (2016)|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/march-2016-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=12 December 2017}}</ref>

| 2016 || May || Incubation grant Grantmaking || As part of GiveWell’s effort, Good Ventures grants US$6,400,000 to {{w|non-profit}} {{w|Results for Development}} to support its Market Dynamics practice area’s pneumonia treatment program in {{w|Tanzania}}. The fund is expected to increase use of {{w|amoxicillin}}, the WHO-recommended first-line treatment for childhood {{w|pneumonia}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Results for Development — Childhood Pneumonia Treatment Scale-Up|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/results-for-development/may-2016-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=12 December 2017}}</ref> In the same month Good Ventures grants US$350,000 to {{w|Innovations for Poverty Action}} to support a {{w|randomized controlled trial}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Innovations for Poverty Action — Mindset Engagement in Cash Transfers|url=https://www.givewell.org/international/charities/ipa/may-2016-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=12 December 2017}}</ref>

| 2016 || June–October || Incubation grant Grantmaking || Following GiveWell’s guidelines Good Ventures grants $1,985,000 in unrestricted funding over three years to IDinsight, a development-consulting organization that serves mission-driven organizations to facilitate evidence-based decision-making. The fund is expected to allow IDinsight to scale its model of supporting and evaluating development interventions, ideally (in the long term) providing us with research that GiveWell would be able to use in its work to recommend top charities. In October, Good Ventures grants an additional US$314,752 to IDinsight.<ref>{{cite web|title=IDinsight — General Support (2016)|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/IDinsight/june-2016-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=12 December 2017}}</ref>

| 2016 || August || Grant Grantmaking || Good Ventures makes a grant of US$25 million to GiveDirectly on GiveWell’s recommendation, with GiveDirectly’s goals for the grant consisting in expanding its ability to raise funds from donors not influenced by GiveWell’s recommendation and collaborating with large aid institutions or governments to address their questions about cash transfers.<ref name="The GiveWell Blog"/>

| 2016 || November || Incubation grant Grantmaking || Good Ventures grants $368587 to New Incentives as part of GiveWell's work to support the creation of new top charities.<ref>{{cite web|title=New Incentives — Exit Grant and Immunizations Pilot|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/november-2016-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=10 December 2017}}</ref> In the same month Good Ventures grants $200,000 to Charity Science: Health to support the first year of its work setting up a charity to send SMS immunization reminders in {{w|India}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Charity Science: Health — General Support|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/charity-science/charity-science-health/november-2016-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=13 December 2017}}</ref>

| 2016 || Year round || Statistics/incubation grant Grantmaking || According to a delayed report posted in September 2017, GiveWell manages to track a total of US$91.6 million during 2016 given to its top charities as a direct result of research.<ref>{{cite web|title=GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2016|url=https://blog.givewell.org/2018/03/30/givewells-money-moved-and-web-traffic-in-2016/|website=blog.givewell.org|accessdate=12 April 2018}}</ref> In the same year, Good Ventures made GiveWell Incubation Grants totaling US$13.3 million.<ref>{{cite web|title=GiveWell Metrics Report – 2016 Annual Review|url=http://files.givewell.org/files/metrics/GiveWell_Metrics_Report_2016.pdf|website=files.givewell.org|accessdate=12 April 2018}}</ref>

| 2017 || January || Incubation grant Grantmaking || As part of GiveWell's Incubation Grants to support the development of potential future top charities and improve the quality of our recommendations, Good Ventures grants $900,000 to the {{w|Georgetown University}} Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation for its Road Safety Campaign.<ref>{{cite web|title=Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation — Zusha! Road Safety Campaign|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/gui2de/january-2017-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=13 December 2017}}</ref>

| 2017 || April || Incubation Grant Grantmaking || Regents of the {{w|University of California, Berkeley}} receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$1,104,259 to support the Kenya Life Panel Survey Round 4 (KLPS-4), a follow-up study to assess the long-term impact of deworming on consumption.<ref>{{cite web|title=UC Berkeley — KLPS-4 Survey|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/uc-berkeley/april-2017-grant|website=www.givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref> In the same month, under the incubation grant program, Good Ventures makes a grant of US$2,642,300 to Evidence Action –which expects to strengthen its financial systems, human resources, and information technology, and another grant of US$820,000 to New Incentives, which plans to use these funds to support its work on conditional cash transfers to incentivize child immunization.<ref>{{cite web|title=Evidence Action — Strengthen Operations|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/evidence-action/april-2017-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=13 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=New Incentives — General Support|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/april-2017-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=13 December 2017}}</ref>

| 2017 || May || Incubation Grant Grantmaking || IDinsight receives an Incubation Grant of US$2,321,617 to support its GiveWell-embedded team for the next twelve months. This grant is in addition to June 2016 and October 2016 GiveWell Incubation Grants to IDinsight, a company that supports and conducts rigorous evaluations of development interventions, often involving randomized controlled trials (RCTs), with an explicit focus on partnering with funders and policy makers to use data to inform key strategy decisions. IDinsight's "decision-focused evaluation" is considered aligned with GiveWell's goals.<ref>{{cite web|title=IDinsight — Embedded GiveWell Team (2017)|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/IDinsight/may-2017-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>

| 2017 || June || Incubation grant Grantmaking || The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the {{w|University of California, Berkeley}} receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$18,000 to investigate the feasibility of conducting a high-quality follow-up study on Stoltzfus et al. 1997, a deworming evaluation conducted in {{w|Tanzania}} in the mid-1990s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley — Deworming Study Planning Gift|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/cega-uc-berkeley/june-2017-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>

| 2017 || July || Incubation grant IGrantmaking || Charity Science Health receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$357,543 to support its SMS immunization reminder program in {{w|India}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Charity Science Health — SMS Reminders for Immunization|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/charity-science/charity-science-health/july-2017-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref> In the same month, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$492,188, with CEGA planning to use these funds to create a list of previously completed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that could potentially be candidates for follow-up studies analyzing longer-term effects of programs.<ref>{{cite web|title=Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley — Scoping RCTs for Long-Term Follow-Ups|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/cega-uc-berkeley/july-2017-grant|website=www.givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>

| 2017 || August || Incubation grant Grantmaking || The Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $1,336,409 to start work aimed at reducing deaths from deliberate ingestion of pesticides. The funds are planned to start collecting data on pesticide suicides in {{w|Nepal}} and {{w|India}} with the aim of assisting governments in enacting bans on the most lethal pesticides currently used in suicide attempts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention – General Support|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/centre-pesticide-suicide-prevention/august-2017-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=13 December 2017}}</ref>

| 2018 || March || Grantmaking || Evidence Action Beta receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$320,000 to support the Indian government's work on iron and folic acid supplementation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Evidence Action Beta — Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation |url=https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/march-2018-evidence-action-beta-iron-folic-acid |website=givewell.org |accessdate=3 December 2019}}</ref>

| 2018 || May || Grantmaking || GiveWell allocates US$3.0 million in discretionary grant, distributing 70% to Against Malaria Foundation and 30% to Schistosomiasis Control Initiative. The donations were received between January and March 2018.<ref name="Discretionary Grantmakingv"/>

| 2018 || June || Grantmaking || Fortify Health receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$295,217 to start a new program aimed at mass fortification of wheat flour with iron in {{w|India}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fortify Health — General Support |url=https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/fortify-health/june-2018-grant |website=givewell.org |accessdate=3 December 2019}}</ref>

| 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"/>

| 2019 || February 13 || Grantmaking || GiveWell announces a grantmaking process to look for organizations operating in {{w|Southeast Asia}} and {{w|Bangladesh}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=The GiveWell Blog |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2019/02/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=3 December 2019}}</ref>