https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/ is a great American nonprofit resource:
New Incentives in particular seems poised to spend much more after large ~Givewell cash grants
Ranked cost-effective public health interventions:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7142580/ (high income-country policies: food, tobacco, alcohol, etc.)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552255/ (LMIC policies: medicine, condoms, food, etc.)
Diet advice since food policy tops both lists:
https://cidev.uky.edu/kentuckyhealthnews/2022/02/14/a-healthier-diet-could-add-years-to-your-life-study-says-more-than-a-decade-in-your-20s-and-eight-or-nine-years-even-at-age-60/
Most people view farm animals as serving a purpose, whereas animal cruelty is criticized more when more unnecessary. That's why moral progress is made in fashion, poaching, and animal-fighting sports and why veganism should focus more on food waste and traditions like egg tosses and egg decorating: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22890292/food-waste-meat-dairy-eggs-milk-animal-welfare Omnivores can respect farm animal sacrifices more, which is a useful mindset shift
@Peter Wildeford @Matt_Lerner interested in similar. This in-depth analysis' was a bit strict in my opinion looking at file-level criteria:
https://www.metabase.com/blog/bus-factor
These massive projects were mostly maintained by 1 person last I checked a year ago:
https://github.com/curl/curl/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/vuejs/vue/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/laravel/laravel/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/pallets/flask/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/expressjs/express/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/lodash/lodash/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/psf/requests/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/babel/babel/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/graphs/contributors (seemingly improved since)
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/graphs/contributors
I'd love to be able to maintain more polished current data
Bus routes also seem cheaper, quicker implemented, lower profile politically, and more historically ridden than rail: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/1-US-transit-ridership-by-year_fig1_367860713
Agreed on building on those wildly successful campaigns that each raised tens of millions:[1]
Team Disease: GiveWell
Team Bees: Good Food Institute/Clean Air Task Force/Giving Green/Founders Pledge
Private subreddit / FB group could be cheaper/easier (although perhaps less private/aesthetic)