Grant geography
Only a source-authored country field can place a grant in this lens. Purpose keywords and recipient names do not.
GiveWell: structured · other grant ledgers: incompleteGEOGRAPHY LENS · 01INDIA · IN
Giving in India,
without guessing.
A donor should be able to ask “what works in India?” without confusing where an organization is based, where a grant is tagged, who benefits, which donation vehicle receives the gift, or whether a published amount is actually available now.
This first lens starts with the evidence the accepted ledgers can support: one current evaluator-backed opportunity that explicitly includes India, plus 50 GiveWell grant records with India in their country field. Everything else remains visibly unassessed.
GiveWell grants naming India50$170.37M in full published row amounts since 2015
Current evaluator opportunities1Explicit India service geography, not a synthetic rank
India-specific funding room0Organization-wide room is not silently allocated to India
Donation vehicles assessed0Registration, deductibility, and local rails remain open diligence
Five fields.
Never one label.
Service geography
The accepted evaluation must explicitly name India. A headquarters address or global claim is not enough.
1 current accepted opportunityTarget population
People, animals, institutions, and places remain separate. This release preserves ACE’s native farmed-shrimp population.
No cross-population conversionFunding room
Organization-wide room cannot be relabeled as India-specific without a program budget, allocation, and counterfactual.
India-specific amount unknownDonation vehicle
Indian registration, foreign-contribution rules, donor-country deductibility, and the receiving entity require legal review.
Not yet assessedCURRENT EVALUATOR EVIDENCE
One explicit India signal.
No automatic recommendation.
Animal Charity Evaluators currently recommends Shrimp Welfare Project and names India in its service geography. The India program has native modeled metrics; the published funding room remains organization-wide.
01Animal Charity Evaluators2025 cohort
selected technology programs modeled with high uncertainty
Read the ACE review ↗Shrimp Welfare Project
Sustainable Shrimp Farmers of India
Service geographyCentral and South America, Southeast Asia, and India
Target populationfarmed shrimps
Organization-wide room$750Kannual, 2026–2027 · not allocated to India
India-specific roomNot publishedUnknown is not zero
shrimps helped per USD
Range 740–1,481. Point value is ACE's rounded 'over one thousand'; range is preserved exactly.
SADs averted per USD
Range 464–840. Highly speculative assumptions about suffering averted through sludge removal.
India vehicle and tax treatment
The accepted data does not establish headquarters, an India-registered receiving entity, local payment rails, or donor-country deductibility.
GIVEWELL · PUBLISHED GRANTS
Follow the money.
Keep the denominator.
The flow lens covers source rows, not recommended opportunities. Multi-country grants keep their full published amount because GiveWell’s accepted export does not provide a country allocation.
2024–2026 rows26$61.83M in full published amounts
India-only rows21$48.43M can be summed inside the India-only slice
Multi-country rows5$13.4M retained but not allocated to India
Current Top Charities naming India0Historical grants do not create a current Top Charity recommendation
AMOUNT RULE
Published grant amounts are shown only inside the GiveWell ledger. A multi-country row retains its full source amount because the accepted record does not allocate dollars by country; India-only and multi-country amounts remain separate.
Evidence Action
Deworming · Iron · Nutrition · Supplementation
8 grants · latest Oct 2025Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.
Tuberculosis
1 grant · latest Jun 2024Fortification Foundation
Fortification · Nutrition
1 grant · latest Jan 2026London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Research · Vision
1 grant · latest May 2024Agency Fund
and child health · Maternal · neonatal · Research
1 grant · latest Jul 2025University of California, Berkeley
Agriculture · Chlorination · Research · Water
2 grants · latest Mar 2026Ansh UK
and child health · Maternal · neonatal
1 grant · latest Dec 2024Coefficient Giving
Education · Research
1 grant · latest Dec 2025RICE Institute, Inc
and child health · Maternal · neonatal
1 grant · latest Jan 2026PATH
Fortification · Nutrition · Research
2 grants · latest Dec 2025INDIA ONLYMay 26, 2026
Institute for Financial Management and Research
Livelihoods
INDIA ONLYMar 31, 2026
University of California, Berkeley
Agriculture · Research
INDIA ONLYJan 28, 2026
Fortification Foundation
Nutrition · Fortification
INDIA ONLYJan 16, 2026
RICE Institute, Inc
Maternal · neonatal · and child health
MULTI-COUNTRYDec 19, 2025
Coefficient Giving
Education · Research
MULTI-COUNTRYDec 19, 2025
PATH
Research
INDIA ONLYDec 4, 2025
PATH
Nutrition · Fortification · Research
INDIA ONLYOct 24, 2025
The Aquaya Institute
Chlorination · Water · Monitoring and evaluation
INDIA ONLYOct 9, 2025
Evidence Action
Nutrition · Iron · Supplementation
INDIA ONLYOct 7, 2025
ID Insight Inc
Nutrition · Fortification
INDIA ONLYAug 21, 2025
Evidence Action
Nutrition · Iron · Supplementation
INDIA ONLYJul 25, 2025
ID Insight Inc
Nutrition · Research
COVERAGE MATRIX
What each source
can actually tell us.
A missing structured country field is not a negative finding. It is a boundary on this release: Market for Impact does not search organization names or prose and silently convert those matches into India funding totals.
grant country coverageGiveWell
50 published grant rows explicitly name India; 0 current Top Charity program geographies name India.
Country-tagged grants are historical funding records, not current recommendations or current room for more funding.Inspect source ↗current recommendation coverageAnimal Charity Evaluators
1 current recommended charity explicitly includes India in its accepted service geography.
Organization-level funding room and capacity are not allocated to the India program in the accepted review.Inspect source ↗structured country field unavailableCoefficient Giving
2893 accepted rows; grant geography is not-published.
Names, purpose text, and headquarters are not used to infer India activity or India funding totals.Inspect source ↗structured country field unavailableGiving Green
29 accepted rows; grant geography is not-published.
Names, purpose text, and headquarters are not used to infer India activity or India funding totals.Inspect source ↗structured country field unavailableRenaissance Philanthropy
28 accepted rows; grant geography is not-published.
Names, purpose text, and headquarters are not used to infer India activity or India funding totals.Inspect source ↗country field not standardizedFounders Pledge
The accepted research matrix does not expose a standardized service-country field across opportunities.
A cause-area recommendation or benchmark is not labeled India-specific without an accepted country field.Inspect source ↗NEXT DILIGENCE
Opportunity. Obtain an India-program budget, incremental activity plan, and outcome forecast for the $100K / $1M / $10M cases.
Entity. Verify headquarters, Indian registration, FCRA or other relevant receiving constraints, tax treatment, and donation rails.
Discovery. Add India-native evaluators, locally registered nonprofits, and source-grounded service geographies without importing a platform’s default order as an impact rank.
GiveWellGiveWell Grants — Published GrantsRetrieved Aug 30, 2026↗GiveWellOur Top CharitiesRetrieved Aug 30, 2026↗Animal Charity EvaluatorsAnnouncing our 2025 Charity RecommendationsRetrieved Aug 30, 2026↗Market for ImpactGrant-flow field-coverage contractRetrieved Aug 30, 2026↗
india-geography-v0.1 · generated Aug 30, 2026 · source-grounded country lens · no cross-publisher total