GiveWell's 2025 fundraising of $616 million was its largest fundraising year to date.

True: GiveWell's 2025 fundraising was about $616 million (±2%) and exceeded every prior year's total. Mostly true: 2025 was the largest year, but the amount differs by about 2–10%. Mixed: the amount is roughly right but a prior year was comparable or larger by some metric, or the reverse. Mostly false: 2025 was not the largest year and the amount is off. False: 2025 was clearly below a prior year and far from $616M.

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1. E1 Metrics Report 2025 - files.givewell.org GiveWell · 10 September 2026 Own record

   “We raised more money in 2025 than we have during any previous year, and that was also true for each of our Giving Funds: All Grants Fund, Top Charities Fund, and Unrestricted Fund.”

2. E2 GiveWell's 2022 metrics report - The GiveWell Blog GiveWell · 22 December 2023 Own record

   “In 2022, the most recent year for which data is available and analyzed, GiveWell raised the largest amount of money in our history, over $600 million.”

3. E3 GiveWell's 2024 Metrics and Impact - The GiveWell Blog GiveWell · 13 August 2025 Own record

   “While we raised more money in 2024 than 2023, we raised less than in the previous two years due to high funding from Open Philanthropy during that time.”

GiveWell's 2025 metrics report gives total funds raised of $616,380,029 in 2025 and says this exceeded every previous year (E1). Earlier reports published years before give lower totals for prior peak years: $602.9M in 2022 and $595.5M in 2021 (E2), and about $415M in 2024 and $355M in 2023 (E3). All of these sources come from GiveWell itself, but they are specific, consistent published records from different years, and they show 2025 as the highest year, though only about 2% above 2022.