Dispensers for Safe Water is a GiveWell standout charity.

Judged as of 2020-05-28. True: GiveWell's standout charity list in force on that date included Dispensers for Safe Water, either named directly or as Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program. Mostly true: it was listed under a minor naming variation. Mostly false: it had been a standout charity before that date but had been removed by then. False: it was never a GiveWell standout charity.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Recognitions: The Nobel Prize, Charity Evaluator Rankings, and Expo… Evidence Action · 20 December 2019

   “our Dispensers for Safe Water program was ranked a “standout” charity for the third year in a row.”

2. E2 2018 GiveWell Announcement Evidence Action · 26 November 2018

   “Dispensers for Safe Water again received recognition as a standout charity.”

3. E3 Standout Charities - November 2020 Version GiveWell · November 2020 Own record

   “Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water”

4. E4 GiveWell Metrics Report – 2020 Annual Review GiveWell Own record

   “Dispensers for Safe Water was one of our standout charities, a designation we discontinued in October 2021.”

Evidence Action reported in December 2019 that GiveWell had ranked Dispensers for Safe Water a standout charity for the third year in a row (E1), following a similar announcement in November 2018 (E2). GiveWell's November 2020 standout list still names Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water (E3), and GiveWell's 2020 metrics report says the standout designation was discontinued only in October 2021 (E4). The listing was therefore in force on 2020-05-28 under a name the criteria accept. The May 2020 version of the list itself was not fetched, but the evidence from before and after that date is consistent.