Frequently Asked Questions

Nope. In fact, you can’t give us your money! You can only let us help you save the most lives through the causes and charities you choose.

We are not a business entity or institution, just an online hub where we can all come together to bless the biggest! We are run entirely by unpaid volunteers, gladly using their own finances to cover all costs and to donate to our recommended charities.

At Bless BIG we put our money where our mouth is…over 99% of our team’s charity giving goes to Bless BIG charities! If we could find a more effective way to do good with our resources and time, we would do it and make it available to you! That’s why we absolutely love Bless BIG, and we can’t wait for you to benefit from it and make a massive difference with us too!

It almost certainly won’t affect them at all. Americans give 94% of their donations to Americans, who comprise only 0.1% of those in extreme poverty. And for those who are Christians, 97% of their money goes to the most wealthy and overreached Christians in the world. This “in-group” prioritization is common to all humans, but your in-group won’t ever receive enough aid if it has little to give and isn’t the focus of others’ generosity.

Therefore, the most helpful way to answer this question is to realize that you’re not choosing to eliminate aid to your domestic neighbor by giving to your global neighbor. You’re choosing to let the 94% keep aiding your domestic neighbors, so that you can be one of the very few aiding your global neighbors, and often through methods that are exponentially more impactful per dollar. You’re choosing to make a much bigger difference to many more people – to Bless BIG.

Please do…children, parents, and friends are dying every second because our tithes and donations primarily get spent on us. Bless BIG doesn’t depend on the massive facility, staff, and maintenance costs that create most of this injustice. That allows us to help you help the world’s most neglected so much more effectively!

Why yes, and wow, thanks! We won’t take your money – just deal with it. 🙂 But there’s a diversity of ways to share Bless BIG with all the amazing people who have the privilege of knowing you! Click “Volunteer” to do so however you’re best fit, or share our free resources via email or social media. We need you and appreciate your enthusiasm tons!

Transparency is important to us at Bless BIG. Unlike the vast majority of charity evaluators, we publish our entire methodology right here. It explains our mission, crucial principles guiding charity evaluation, the pros/cons of our many charity evaluators, and every step in our assessment process, start to finish. The rationales provided at various steps are valuable considerations for everyone who wants to get the most out of the time or money they give to others.

Even better, anyone can use our methodology to evaluate any charity initiative (or to confirm our own charity ratings)! At the link above, simply follow the prompt and questions to see how a non-profit fares. It’s surprising how many important considerations go into blessing the biggest that you can, so we’ve made it straightforward and reproducible for you!

Yes, and often even more! High-quality researchers of charity impact, along with consistent multi-department US government research, confirm that significant interventions like saving lives cost at least 2000 times as much in the US compared to the poorest nations. See “Our Impact” page or our complete methodology and rationales to better understand the many reasons this is true.

Our recommended charities prioritize the world’s least aided, embracing the causes and approaches best proven by research to be the most effective. The most common non-profits Americans give to primarily prioritize the former, via approaches less focused on proven impact and more on people who can return the benefit in the form of new attendees, advocates, or donors. Bless BIG primarily aids those who will likely never aid us, because they need to – and will – benefit most.

Also, the institutions most commonly receiving US donations only give an average of 10% of their budget to people in need; we give 100%. That’s 2000 times the efficiency and 10 times the percentage of donations, which can make your money 20,000 times more impactful at Bless BIG! Scientific research on the causes, approaches, and populations we prioritize confirm this exponential multiplication of impact. Visit the websites of our independent charity evaluators (described in detail in Section B here) and of our recommended charities to validate that evidence firsthand.

We believe in producing the biggest crop with what we sow, maximizing the return on what we’ve been given, and proving our heart for our global neighbors who will benefit most – by devoting our treasure to them. Bless BIG allows anyone with any amount of money to make a beautifully huge difference!

Our operations necessitate no paid staff or facility. Our expenses (research, website maintenance, and marketing) are low enough to be completely covered by a fraction of our volunteer team’s personal assets, allowing everything else that both we and you give through Bless BIG to benefit the wonderful people our recommended charities serve!

No. All of our charity organization recommendations are solely merit-based, according to third-party assessment data. Both the charities and the third-party charity evaluators were selected by Bless BIG without any awareness, influence, or compensation by any of them.