Why doesn’t Thankyou report ‘human impact figures’ anymore?

In our first decade we measured everything. Every well, filter, health clinic etc and most accurate number of people those projects served. We were relentless in the pursuit of this data because we thought they were the important numbers. We wanted to show the exact difference Thankyou funding was making. But in this pursuit, we became part of the problem.

With our trust-based philanthropy approach, we’re committed to funding partners that are focused on delivering impact to communities living in extreme poverty, not projects. We know we only play a small role in the overall success in the areas our partners are working in; so never want to over-claim or over-attribute our funding’s impact. For this reason, the amount of people WE have specifically helped is no longer a public claim we feel comfortable making. Rest assured, we still collect data on each of our partner’s organisational impact metrics www.thankyou.co/impact , and also the amount of people they serve and reach each year.