Foundation Impact Leaders

The foundations highlighted here are as diverse in their approaches to Mission Related Investments and Program Related Investments as they are in their foundation focus. This is by no means a complete list and there are many more innovative foundations not mentioned here that are doing ground breaking work in impact investing both here in the United States as well as globally.

Abell Foundation

Annie E. Casey Foundation

F.B. Heron

Ford Foundation

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

George Gund Foundation

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Kellogg Foundation

Meyer Memorial Trust

New Hampshire Community Loan Fund

Pearl M. & Julia J. Harmon Foundation

The Educational Foundation of America

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The Kalamazoo Community Foundation

The Russell Family Foundation


Rockefeller Foundation Case Study of Toniic’s T100 Project

This 2018 Rockefeller Foundation case study of the Toniic T100 Project “shares the significant efforts of a network of investors to document and analyze the impact of a collection of impact investment portfolios. … Our hope is that other mission-oriented investors can draw lessons from Toniic’s experience to strengthen their own impact measurement practices.”

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