# Helen Keller Intl

**Org ID:** `org_helen_keller_intl`  
**Entity type:** `organization`  
**Recommendation tier:** `top_charity`  
**Recommendation source:** GiveWell  
**Last reviewed:** 2026-10-01  

**Website:** https://helenkellerintl.org/  
**Donate:** https://helenkellerintl.org/  
**EIN:** `13-5562162`  

## Summary

GiveWell Top Charity for vitamin A supplementation.

## Key claims

### GiveWell — `eval_gw_hki`

Outcome metric: `cost_per_life_saved` · confidence: `high` · as_of: 2026-10-01

GiveWell Top Charity; very strong VAS evidence.

| Label | Value | Unit | Period | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cost per life saved | `3500` | `USD_per_life_saved` | 2022-2024 average | yes |
| Cost per child-year of VAS | `2` | `USD_per_child_year` | 2022-2024 average | yes |

**Citations:** <https://www.givewell.org/charities/helen-keller-international>, <https://www.givewell.org/charities/helen-keller-international>

## Trust snapshot

- **IRS status:** `exempt_501c3_eo_bmf`
- **Registry status:** `pending_manual`
- **Website reachable:** `ok`
- **Donate URL status:** `ok`
- **Flags:** `EIN_FROM_ORG_PAGE`, `IRS_EO_BMF_MATCHED`, `US_DEDUCTIBLE_PER_EO_BMF`
- **Checked at:** 2026-10-01
- **IRS notes:** Matched IRS EO BMF extract 2026-10-01: NAME=HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL; SUBSECTION=03 (501c3); STATUS=01 (unconditional exemption); DEDUCTIBILITY=1. Interactive TEOS (apps.irs.gov) returned HTTP 403 from this environment; Pub78/auto-revocation UI not re-checked — EO BMF presence is the verified public source.

## Related interventions

- [`int_vas` — Vitamin A supplementation](../interventions/vitamin-a-supplementation.md)

## Causes

- `cause_nutrition`
- `cause_global_health_life_saving`

## Machine-readable

- JSON-LD: [`org_helen_keller_intl.jsonld`](org_helen_keller_intl.jsonld)
- Source org record: [`data/orgs/org_helen_keller_intl.json`](../../../data/orgs/org_helen_keller_intl.json)
- Claims index: [`data/claims_index.json`](../../../data/claims_index.json)

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