High Impact Professionals: 2025 Report

High Impact Professionals (HIP) supports experienced professionals to increase their impact through career transitions and effective giving.

This post provides a brief summary of our 2025 impact. The full 2025 Impact Report is available on our website.

Summary of headline metrics from our 2025 Impact Report. Full breakdowns, learnings, and 2026 plans are available in the linked report.

2025 highlights

Across all HIP activities in 2025, we estimate that we supported:

• 50+ high-impact career transitions, mainly through our Impact Accelerator Program
• ~70 new effective giving pledges, including 18 🔸10% Pledges via the HIP Pledge Club
• $2.5M in counterfactual impact, corresponding to a 16.2× impact multiplier

All programs were delivered with a core team of 1.6 FTE, supported by a large volunteer facilitator and mentor network.

Other milestones in 2025

Beyond direct program outcomes, 2025 included several developments that we expect to matter for HIP’s future impact:

• Effective giving: For the second year in a row, effective giving pledges made through the HIP Pledge Club are projected to move more counterfactual funding into high-impact organisations than HIP’s annual operating costs.
• Talent infrastructure: The Talent Directory grew to 4,500+ professionals and 290+ organisations, with increased use of “Top Candidate” nominations and early evidence of downstream hires and fellowships.
• New programs and resources: We launched the Career Impact Track as a more scalable complement to the Impact Accelerator Program, and released our new website including free career resources, including a public version of our Career Planning Workbook.
• Funding and runway: A grant from Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) extended HIP’s runway by two years, allowing us to continue and expand core programs. In addition, HIP was recognised as a Giving What We Can Supported Program, enabling donations via GWWC’s platform.
• Organisational capacity: All programs were delivered with 1.6 FTE in 2025, and we hired a Director of Programs and Director of Marketing to increase capacity from 2026 onwards.

Notes on measurement

As part of our regular review process, we made several updates to our impact measurement, including removing a small number of previously counted career transitions that did not ultimately materialise and adopting updated Giving What We Can assumptions for pledge impact. These changes are described in more detail in the full report.

Looking ahead

In 2026, we plan to scale participation across programs, improve alumni follow-up, and use increased team capacity to better translate participant interest into career transitions and effective giving.

We welcome questions and feedback. The full 2025 Impact Report is available here.