# Taimaka

**Org ID:** `org_taimaka`  
**Entity type:** `organization`  
**Recommendation tier:** `promising`  
**Recommendation source:** Happier Lives Institute  
**Last reviewed:** 2026-10-01  

**Website:** https://taimaka.org/  
**Donate:** https://taimaka.org/  
**EIN:** `84-3964208`  

## Summary

Child malnutrition treatment in NE Nigeria; HLI Promising; GiveWell grantee.

## Key claims

### Happier Lives Institute — `eval_hli_taimaka`

Outcome metric: `cost_per_wellby` · confidence: `medium` · as_of: 2026-10-01

HLI Promising Charity.

| Label | Value | Unit | Period | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WELLBYs per $1,000 | `66.0` | `WELLBY_per_1000_USD` | HLI table | yes |
| Cost per WELLBY | `15.15` | `USD_per_WELLBY` | HLI table | yes |
| Cost per child treated | `87.21` | `USD_per_child` | HLI table | yes |
| Effect per person | `5.72` | `WELLBY_per_person` | HLI table | yes |
| Multiple of GiveDirectly | `8.7` | `x_givedirectly` | HLI comparison | yes |

**Citations:** <https://www.happierlivesinstitute.org/taimaka-summary/>, <https://www.happierlivesinstitute.org/charities/>

## 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=TAIMAKA PROJECT; 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_cmat` — Community management of acute malnutrition](../interventions/community-management-acute-malnutrition.md)

## Causes

- `cause_nutrition`
- `cause_global_health_wellbeing`

## Machine-readable

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

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