METRICS INFORM EVERY GRANT WE MAKE Our system of metrics supports a powerful ambition: spend donor dollars smartly. Without waste. Metrics help determine the relative impact of different kinds of poverty-fighting initiatives. See the 163 Metrics formulas we have developed to evaluate poverty interventions: EXPLORE THE EQUATIONS METRICS: A DEEPER DIVE There are two critical components to our grant-making: benefit-cost ratios and counterfactuals.