OUR APPROACH
The science of impactful giving
Ultra Philanthropy evaluates and compares philanthropic opportunities using standardized metrics, to help donors give with confidence.
Our system for evaluating impact uses clear, consistent criteria, to help us assess intervention quality and compare different projects more easily.
Intervention Evidence Quality
How strong is the evidence for this approach?
Organization Evidence Quality
How strong is the evidence for this organization’s execution of the approach?
Potential for Scale
How big is the problem and how scalable is the solution?
Payer-at-Scale Interest
Likelihood of attracting large-scale institutional, governmental or multilateral funding.
Fit for the Donor or Fund
Alignment to the philosophy and comparative advantage of a given donor or fund.
Cost Effectiveness
What is the cost-per-outcome of the project? How much benefit does each outcome provide?
Why measure impact?
Most philanthropic giving lacks the analytical rigor found in commercial investments. The result? Scattered, speculative giving, often with no discernible impact.
Major donors have the means to transform the world. However, much of that potential is lost through fragmented giving, limited due diligence and the difficulties of unearthing the best opportunities.
Ultra Philanthropy was founded to close this gap. We use the same research, modelling and data discipline found in institutional investing to transform your giving.
We score each project on five criteria, producing an average score and a radar chart for easy comparison between projects. Some projects will score highly on everything, but most will excel in some areas and be riskier in others.
Evidence strength
We assess the strength of the evidence for the project. First, how strong is the generic evidence for the intervention or method? Second, what evaluations are there for this project's implementation of that method?
Key metrics
The header summarised four key metrics - our overall rating, a cost-effectiveness rating and numerical range, and how much funding the project can absorb in the next 12-24 months.