Forethought has room for more funding

My understanding is that Coefficient remains excited about recommending us to donors, but recently confirmed with Good Ventures that we're not a good fit for Good Ventures' specific preferences at the moment. 

I'm afraid that I can't speak to Good Ventures' reasons apart from noting that they evidently didn't change Coefficient's decision to recommend us to their other donors.

Hi! We're keeping an eye on how big a portion of our funding comes from AGI company employees, but yes, we're very happy to receive such donations at the current margin, thanks.

(Responding in my capacity as Director of Ops at Forethought.)

EDIT 1st Dec 2025: I'm happy to confirm that we can now accept Gift Aid (tax-deductible) donations from the UK, via this page on Giving What We Can's donation platform.

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Great nudge, thanks Neel! I've updated the post and webpages to make this clearer now.

Extra notes:

• It's likely that we'll have an online platform for allowing UK donors to fund us tax-deductibly / with Gift Aid later this year or in early 2026. If anyone would like to be notified if/when this becomes the case, please fill in this form [link removed].
• If anyone would like to make a substantial UK donation, say above £25,000, please do get in touch! Even if we're not able to set up an ongoing route via a public platform, we'll do what we can to facilitate it.

For background: yep, Aleks is correct. We're a not-for-profit company in the UK, but not a UK charity, and as such can't claim Gift Aid on direct UK donations. We do have 501c3-equivalent status allowing US grantors to fund us easily, including Every.org, which collects tax-deductible donations from US individuals, and grants them on to us. And yes, this was a decision made in part because of administrative costs, though we're open to the possibility of becoming a UK charity later if it seems worthwhile.

I'm happy to confirm that we can now accept Gift Aid (tax-deductible) donations from the UK, via this page on Giving What We Can's donation platform.

it's not that surprising to me. getting Tax free donation status in the US  is far easier than most other countries. OneDay Health Charity is registered in New Zealand in primarily with governance based there, and in Uganda as an international NGO, but it's only in the US that people can donate tax deductable through our 501c3 there.....

Forethought are not a UK charity, they are a UK-based non-profit company (according to the footer of their website). But I agree that flagging that donations from the UK are not gift-aid eligible/tax deductible (and that US donations are) would be good as it might be surprising to many people.

Yep! We think our work doesn't lend itself easily to coming up with quantitative estimates of our expected impact.