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Funding high-impact global change

Impact Summary

Explore the highlights and milestones of our impact around the world in 2025.

This report reflects our data as of March 2026, unless otherwise specified.

2025 headline figures

Moments and milestones

We combined rigorous research, early action, and adaptability throughout 2025, while staying focused on long-term impact.

2025

January

Publication of flagship climate report: ‘All In: Strategies for Climate Philanthropists in a New Political Landscape’

February

U.S. foreign aid suspended: Rapid Response Fund launched

March

Breakthrough Energy sudden closure: $3.5M grant deployed from the Climate Fund

May

GCR Fund grants $400K to Center for Nonproliferation Studies & American Enterprise Institute for research on nuclear war termination

August

Rapid Response Fund closed: over $13M mobilized in six months

September

Catalytic Impact Fund launched: $1.9M directed to Clinton Health Access Initiative

December

Largest high-impact grant of all time: $23M to DEPLOY/US for long-term fieldbuilding

Multiplying Impact

Our members increased their total charitable giving by 32% in 2025, and gave more to our high-impact funding opportunities (HIFO) than ever before.

Across all time, our members have moved over $1.7B to the charitable sector – of which almost $298M was granted to charities in 2025 alone.

As of March 2026, our community of members and the wider public have granted some $493M to our high-impact recommendations in total.

2025 High-Impact Highlights

In 2025 the donations from our community have made a significant impact on current and future generations. For example, our grants are projected to:

Protect 29.8M children from parasitic worm infections via grants to Dimagi CommCare Connect, END Fund, Evidence Action, Sightsavers, and Unlimit Health

Enroll 736K infants in life-saving vaccination programs through grants to New Incentives, Suvita, and JSI

Back coal repowering advocacy in emerging Asia via Quantified Carbon’s Repower Initiative

Fund EFI Foundation’s research documenting how severe staffing shortages at the Department of Energy were creating bottlenecks in deploying billions in clean energy funding

Support launching a new strategic diplomatic dialogue between the U.S., Russia, and China, to discuss nuclear weapons, grand strategy, and catastrophic risks

Build capacity at the intersection of AI and biosecurity through Institute for Progress

We pride ourselves on being an impact multiplier.

In 2025, for every $1 donated to Founders Pledge, we helped to move $31.10 to the charitable sector, and we directed $16.90 to our high-impact funding opportunities.

$196M to our high-impact recommendations

What our members say:

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“[What drew me to Founders Pledge] was the ability to commit publicly to giving a large portion of any upside to highly effective charities. It’s great being part of a community where pledging a significant portion of an exit isn’t unusual - it shifts your reference point for what’s normal. That, and Founders Pledge’s approach to philanthropic research, gives me confidence that my giving is best-directed.”

Henry Stanley
Co-Founder & CTO of Mast

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“Working with Founders Pledge was invaluable in helping us think more systematically about our approach to philanthropic giving. They asked us questions we hadn't even realised we needed to answer—questions about our theory of change, measurement frameworks, and what kind of involvement we actually wanted in our charitable work. That process helped us crystallise that we wanted very hands-on, direct project involvement, which ultimately led us to establish our own foundation where we could pursue that approach more fully.”

Gal Podjarny
Member partner & Author