Grantmaking
Criteria
While impact investing is the core of our work, we are also active grantmakers (our “impact-only” portfolio). We partner with small-budget grassroots organizations that offer life’s essentials, including education, food, shelter, healthcare, and love.
Our partners care for people’s overall well-being, promoting gender and racial equity, and cultivating economic opportunity. We look for small organizations without grand plans to scale, but rather a laser focus on their local community.
Grantmaking Criteria
Portfolio
Geographies
Global.
Impact Themes
Livelihoods, quality healthcare, gender and racial equity, WASH, and child care, with a bias for gender-smart initiatives and proximate founders.
Primary SDGs
1 – No Poverty
3 – Good Health
5 – Gender Equality
8 – Decent Work
10 – Reduced Inequalities.
Organizational Type and Size
Grassroots organizations working in a local community with an annual budget under $1M.
Classification
Nonprofits – 501c3 or US fiscal sponsor partner.
Ticket Sizes
$5K-100K.
Grantmaking Portfolio
Criteria
Covenant House
USA
Years Funded: 2015-2020
Covenant House provides housing and supportive services to youth facing homelessness.
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Dasra
India
Year Funded: 2021
Dasra is catalyzing India’s strategic philanthropy movement to transform a billion lives with dignity and equity.
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Focusing Philanthropy
Global
Years Funded: 2018-2020
Focusing Philanthropy identifies areas of profound need, selects proven-effective intervention methods and implementing partners, and then develops highly leveraged giving opportunities in an effort to scale interventions that work.
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Kidzcan Zimbabwe
Africa
Year Funded: 2022
Kidzcan Zimbabwe provides medical and psychosocial care to children living with cancer and blood disorders.
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Libertas Center for Human Rights
USA
Year Funded: 2020
The Libertas Center for Human Rights provides survivors of torture and human rights violations in the NYC area with medical, mental health, social, and legal services to help them lead healthy and hopeful lives.
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Manjushree Vidyapith School
India
Years Funded: 2019-2022
Manjushree Vidyapith Inclusion School cares for underserved children with education, food, shelter, healthcare, love, and more.
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Possible Health
Nepal
Years Funded: 2010-2022
Possible Health works to address evidence, implementation, and policy gaps in the equity, quality, and accessibility of healthcare.
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Rachel Swart Fund
Africa
Year Funded: 2022
The Rachel Swart Fund provides assistive devices for people with physical disabilities in South Africa and offers creative solutions to the disabled in rural areas.
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Ramana’s Garden
India
Years Funded: 2020-2021
Ramana’s Garden offers the vision that every child, regardless of caste or creed, has the right to a home, proper nutrition, quality education, and primary health care.
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Terra Firma
USA
Year Funded: 2022
Terra Firma promotes a compassionate and effective approach to meeting the most pressing healthcare and legal needs of newly-arrived unaccompanied immigrant children and asylum-seeking families through an innovative and holistic model of care.
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The Water Trust
Africa
Years Funded: 2008-2021
The Water Trust empowers rural communities in Uganda to provide clean water and healthy homes for children and their families to thrive.
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Zanmi Beni
Haiti
Years Funded: 2015-2021
Zanmi Beni provides each child entrusted to their care with the opportunity and support necessary to reach his or her full potential in a safe, stable, and loving community.
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