Follow-up record · GiveWell
Helen Keller Intl: cost per life saved
A permanent, dated copy of what GiveWell published, kept so that anyone can check later whether the estimate held up.
What GiveWell published
$3,500 per life saved
GiveWell, 2022–2024 average (opens in a new tab)
Modeled, not guaranteed. This is the evaluator's best estimate of the average, built from studies and assumptions. Your gift could do more or less. How to read these figures
Follow-up status
Waiting for the re-check
We have not looked again yet. This says nothing about whether the program worked.
- Recorded
- Re-check after
What happens next
A follow-up record is a promise to look again. Evaluators revise their estimates as new studies, costs and monitoring data come in. Keeping a dated copy of what GiveWell said lets anyone see, later, whether the estimate held up.
Recorded ·
We saved an exact copy of GiveWell's published estimate, with its source and the date we read it.
Re-check · after
We go back to GiveWell's later publications and compare them with this record.
Result · not yet
Confirmed, contradicted, or could not be checked, with a link to the source. Added as a new record; this one is never edited.
The record
- Charity
- Helen Keller Intl
- Evaluator
- GiveWell
- What it measures
- Cost per life saved
- Published figure
- $3,500 per life saved
- Period
- 2022–2024 average
- Source read on
- Recorded
- Re-check after
- Status
- Waiting for the re-check
Sources
How you can tell it hasn't changed
Each record carries a fingerprint: a code calculated from every word and number in it. Change a single character and the fingerprint changes. Each record also carries the fingerprint of the one before it, so the records form a chain, and editing any earlier record would break every link after it.
- Record reference
- ldg_eval_gw_hki__0
- Fingerprint
- 28f295f16822a6620e3b136473dc9de3f8b2f50e5f9cd7c8cd8eb32896c8c3db
- Previous record
- 17e490ffb3f179509f450c6776653dab2eef0a17306dc9060719573fac8be7fe
- Fingerprint of the source entry
- deac6c4b2c8b13a13c63c2def00b6567a08b21558487e13680bb127fc0b2e5cd
The fingerprints use SHA-256, a standard public method, so anyone can recompute them.
What this record is not
- It is not a measured result. It records what GiveWell estimated, and when.
- It is not our rating. We don't score charities; the figure is GiveWell's, copied exactly.
- It does not change any ranking. Follow-up records are kept separately from the pages that list charities.
Cite this record
This address is permanent. Please cite GiveWell too. Suggested citation:
Did it work?, "Helen Keller Intl: cost per life saved, follow-up record recorded October 21, 2026," https://diditwork.org/ledger/ldg_eval_gw_hki__0