We’ve evaluated hundreds of causes to identify where philanthropic capital can have outsize leverage. Our funds enable philanthropists to pool resources around these high-impact opportunities.

We believe the most important decision a philanthropist makes is choosing which causes to fund.

That’s why we devote significant effort to investigating specific areas before committing resources to them. We evaluate causes using three key criteria:

Importance
The scale and severity of the problem

Neglectedness
Whether the cause receives adequate attention and resources

Tractability
The likelihood that additional resources can create meaningful progress