Longview Philanthropy
Effective Giving Research and Advocacy
Longview Philanthropy connects the world’s leading philanthropists with outstanding opportunities to protect future generations.
What problem is Longview Philanthropy working on?
Longview Philanthropy aspires to a world in which the interests of future generations are fairly considered in decisions about how, when, and where to invest resources. It harnesses the unique power of philanthropy and philanthropic capital to make that world a reality.
Longview focuses on global challenges that could transform our future for many generations to come, including safely navigating emerging technologies and fostering a society with a more long-term outlook.
What does Longview Philanthropy do?
Longview Philanthropy designs and executes bespoke giving strategies for major donors. Its grant recommendations are driven by the conviction that we can use evidence and reason to find the highest-impact opportunities in the world.
Everything Longview Philanthropy offers is free, independent, and reviewed by external experts, and is guided by its core values:
- Longtermism: Our collective future could be extraordinarily good or inordinately bad. Longview believes this generation has the power to influence which path humanity takes, and it is essential that we act responsibly.
- A scientific mindset: Wherever possible, Longview is informed by the latest research from the natural and social sciences, and it acts on the best available balance of evidence.
- Intellectual honesty: Informed by world-class expertise, Longview only makes the grant recommendations that it thinks are best. It does not merely tell its philanthropists what they want to hear.
What information does Giving What We Can have about the cost-effectiveness of Longview Philanthropy?
We looked into Longview Philanthropy in its capacity as a grantmaker in the reducing catastrophic risks space as part of our evaluators research (and as such, we recommend its Longtermism Fund). However, we have not evaluated Longview Philanthropy in any other capacity.
Note that we (GWWC) and Longview are both part of Effective Ventures — see our transparency page
Please note that GWWC does not evaluate individual charities. Our recommendations are based on the research of third-party, impact-focused charity evaluators our research team has found to be particularly well-suited to help donors do the most good per dollar, according to their recent evaluator investigations. Our other supported programs are those that align with our charitable purpose — they are working on a high-impact problem and take a reasonably promising approach (based on publicly-available information).
At Giving What We Can, we focus on the effectiveness of an organisation's work -- what the organisation is actually doing and whether their programs are making a big difference. Some others in the charity recommendation space focus instead on the ratio of admin costs to program spending, part of what we’ve termed the “overhead myth.” See why overhead isn’t the full story and learn more about our approach to charity evaluation.