Grant-making funders
The database lists 561 organisations that use grant. The most common investor types are Private Foundation (180), Service Provider (36) and Family Foundation (34). The most common headquarters are the United States (155), the United Kingdom (69) and Switzerland (67). Leading sectors: Health & Wellbeing (196), Education (191) and Financial Inclusion (122).
Examples in the database
- AnthosSingle Family Office · Netherlands
- AcumenImpact Fund Manager · United States
- Draper Richards Kaplan FoundationPrivate Foundation · United States
- EcoEnterprises FundAsset Manager · United States
- Kvinna till Kvinna FoundationPhilanthropist · Sweden
- Mulago Foundation (founded 1993 by Rainer Arnhold and Henry Arnhold)Family Foundation · United States
- EMA / EMA Purpose Pathway (rebranded; ema-foundation.org now redirects to emapurposepathway.org)Philanthropist · United States
- Equality FundPhilanthropist · Canada
- European Cultural FoundationPhilanthropist · Netherlands
- Limelight FoundationPhilanthropist · Netherlands
- Robert Wood Johnson FoundationFamily Foundation · United States
- Skees Family FoundationFamily Foundation · United States
What these 561 organisations look like
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- Equity impact investors 1,535
- Impact lenders (debt and loans) 736
- Impact bond investors 138
- Real asset impact investors 118
- Convertible and SAFE impact investors 102
- Technical assistance providers 81
- Guarantee and first-loss providers 78
- Blended finance investors 71
- Impact investors backing funds (LPs) 43
- Listed equity impact investors 33
- Mezzanine impact investors 29
- Prize and challenge funds 24
- Microfinance investors 23
- Quasi-equity impact investors 23
- Seed and early-stage impact investors 20
- Growth equity impact investors 10
- Revenue-based finance providers 5