coefficientgiving.substack.com/p/cost-effectiveness
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Our current minimum “bar” for SROI is around 2,000x — meaning that for every dollar we spend, we aim to generate at least $CG 2,000 in value.
This page’s present-tense “current” bar is outdated. Coefficient Giving said on July 23, 2026 that it had lowered its global health and wellbeing funding bar from about 2,000x to about 1,000x.
Full reasoning
Coefficient Giving’s own newer materials contradict this present-tense claim.
- In a December 18, 2025 post, Coefficient said its Global Health and Wellbeing funding bar was “roughly 2,000x.”
- But in a later July 23, 2026 post, Coefficient said it was “lowering our GHW cost-effectiveness funding bar from ~2,000x to ~1,000x.”
So the statement here that their current minimum bar is around 2,000x is stale as of August 21, 2026. Coefficient’s newer official position is that the bar is now about 1,000x, not 2,000x.
This also means the follow-on explanation on this page is out of date: the July 2026 post says the new bar corresponds to saving a year of healthy life for $100, whereas this page still describes the older $50 figure.
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- Increasing Our 2026 Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommendations to $1 Billion
July 23, 2026: “As part of ambitiously scaling our global health and wellbeing (GHW) portfolio, we are lowering our GHW cost-effectiveness funding bar from ~2,000x to ~1,000x (i.e. ... for health interventions, saving a year of healthy life for $100).”
- Allocating $175M to GiveWell’s Recommendations for 2026
December 18, 2025: “With assets and spending up again, we are now decreasing our bar slightly, to roughly 2,000x.”