The Cross-Cause Fund (CCF) is an expert-managed cause-neutral fund. It is run by Rethink Priorities’ cross-cause fund team, which is composed of members of its Leadership and Executive Team, Worldview Investigation Team, and Interdisciplinary Research Team.

It was launched in May 2026 as a fund explicitly aimed at full impartiality (across all cause areas)^[1] — at a time when, per RP’s own analysis, only 2% of EA prioritization resources were allocated to cross-cause prioritization, an area RP describes as historically underdeveloped in effective giving.

This sentence from the CCF website offers a good summary of the goal and intent:

We start from the question of where a marginal dollar is likely to do the most good across all cause areas we cover, and we allocate accordingly.

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1. ^

   With two caveats. First, RP cannot consider political candidates as potential beneficiaries of donations. Second, as of August 2026, multiple worthy causes have not yet been included in the evaluation, e.g., meta work (though the causes that have been included were prioritized intentionally, given specific cross-cause prioritization assumptions plus lack of time to get closer to an ideal allocation). See the CCF FAQ for more related information.