Portfolio
Impact Multiplier
We meet the demands of complex challenges with creativity, a high tolerance for risk, a willingness to be catalytic with capital, and an emphasis on developing the next generation.
Our endowment is 100% mission-aligned, from the program work we perform alongside amazing partners to direct investments, alternatives, and public equities. We work to find and fund solutions that help more people thrive.
projects and companies we are proud to be a part of
VSCO Voices
VSCO Voices was a grant program we created and ran in partnership with VSCO for two years. Each cycle, it funded creators who use art as a vehicle to empower marginalized communities in the United States, giving them the money, mentorship, and platform to tell stories that too often go untold.
Feed Louisville
Feed Louisville is a team of professional chefs on a mission to solve two problems at once. Every day, hunger is a crisis for people in the community. Every day, perfectly good food is thrown into the landfill. Feed Louisville sits at the intersection of the two, rescuing overproduced food from restaurants, bakeries, caterers, and farmers, and using it to cook meals for the city's unhoused and food-insecure neighbors. Feed Louisville came to us through the Reconstruct Challenge, winning our Food Justice challenge with a Phase 1 and a Phase 2 grant.
Granny’s Birth Initiative
Granny's Birth Initiative supports families through pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum months, with a focus on those the healthcare system too often overlooks. Its work centers on carrying on the legacy of the Granny Midwives and ensuring Black and brown birthing people have a safe, supported place to give birth, especially those navigating incarceration, housing instability, a lack of family support, or the child welfare system. Granny's Birth Initiative came to us through the Reconstruct Challenge, winning our 2023 Maternal and Child Health challenge with a Phase 1 and a Phase 2 grant.
CVC - Marathon
CVC-Marathon, formerly Marathon Asset Management, is a leading global credit investment manager. In July 2026, CVC Capital Partners completed its acquisition of the firm, which is being rebranded CVC-Marathon; co-founders Bruce Richards and Lou Hanover continue to lead its credit strategies. We are a limited partner in the Marathon Distressed Credit Fund, which held its final close at $2.5 billion in early 2021, part of the opportunistic credit allocation within our portfolio.
Northlane Capital Partners
Northlane Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity firm that invests in niche healthcare and business services companies. We are a limited partner in Northlane's third fund, part of the private equity allocation within our portfolio.
Asia Companion Fund
The Asia Companion Fund (ACF) is a Singapore-based venture fund that invests in Series A and B+ companies whose cultures seek to bless their stakeholders, starting with their own employees. It was incubated by JLIN Capital Studio, the people-driven investment group founded by Jeremy Lin that operates across Asia and the United States. We are a limited partner in the fund.
Invesco
Invesco is one of the world's leading independent asset managers, serving clients in more than 120 countries across ETFs, fixed income, equities, and private markets. We invest through an Invesco intermediate government/credit fixed-income strategy and a core, high-quality building block within our portfolio.
Fig Loans
Fig Loans is a socially responsible alternative to predatory payday lending. Founded in 2015 by Wharton graduates John Li and Jeffrey Zhou in partnership with United Way of Greater Houston, Fig offers affordable emergency loans and credit-building products designed to align the company's success with the financial health of its borrowers. Our relationship goes back to Fig's early days: the company came through the Village Capital Financial Inclusion cohort that we funded, and we later backed it directly in a follow-on round.
Donate Equity
Donate Equity makes complex giving simple. Its software platform and expert team help nonprofits receive early-stage equity gifts from donors — founders, small-business owners, and early employees who want to give a slice of what they're building long before any sale. We are investors in Donate Equity, and our own AV Foundation has been an early user of the platform.
Growth Loan Fund
The Growth Loan was a non-collateralized loan of up to $35,000 for small-business owners who can't access capital through traditional underwriting. We designed and built it to fill a gap our other work kept surfacing: talented entrepreneurs being turned away not because they wouldn't repay, but because they didn't fit a credit-score box. More than a product, the Growth Loan was a conversation where borrowers speak directly to the loan committee, and confidence in the person carries real weight.
Shelby Park - Louisville, KY
Shelby Park is where Access Ventures began. A small Louisville neighborhood built by German and Irish immigrants around an Olmsted-designed park, it thrived for the first half of the twentieth century and then, like so many American neighborhoods, hollowed out and losing residents and businesses to the suburbs and the interstate, and gaining vacancy, disinvestment, and crime in their place. By the time we began in the spring of 2014, roughly 83% of residents rented, median household income was about 60% below the national figure, and three of every five renters were cost-burdened.
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Hidden Ventures
Hidden Ventures was a fund started by Access Ventures focused on the future of creative work. We invested in pre-seed and seed stage startups building the next wave of creative tools, products, and services, the kind that unlock creativity and help creators build, earn, and flourish in the creative economy.
Catalyze
Catalyze is the platform for capital entrepreneurs, the fund managers working to move capital toward businesses the mainstream overlooks. It gives those managers the capital and support they need to build enduring firms, and it helps allocators find and back exceptional, differentiated managers. Catalyze was birthed out of Blueprint and today Access Ventures serves as its fiscal sponsor and a strategic partner, providing the charitable home, infrastructure, and partnership that lets the Catalyze team focus on its mission.
Fortress
Fortress Investment Group is a pioneer and leader in alternative assets, managing capital across credit, real estate, and private equity for some of the world's largest and most sophisticated investors. We invest through Fortress's real estate credit strategy (the Fortress Credit Realty Income Trust) as part of the disciplined, income-oriented core of our portfolio.
GoodMaps
GoodMaps is an indoor navigation app that uses LiDAR scanning and camera-based positioning to deliver high-accuracy, turn-by-turn guidance inside complex buildings with no beacons or hardware installations required. Designed inclusively from the ground up, it gives users spoken directions, on-screen visuals, and haptic vibrations to move confidently through museums, transit hubs, airports, and other public spaces. We are an investor in GoodMaps.
Peregrine Ventures
Peregrine Ventures forms leaders for a complex world. We co-created it because we believe the hardest problems of our time call for more than technical expertise, they call for clarity of purpose, moral courage, and rightly ordered desire. Rooted in Augustine's vision of ordo amoris — the right ordering of love — Peregrine helps leaders navigate complexity with clarity, courage, and conscience. As the programme puts it, "It's not just a programme, it's a pilgrimage."
Leadership Experience (LX)
The Leadership Experience (LX) envisions a future in which Christian marketplace leaders are known and supported through durable friendships that glorify God, friendships that produce contagious generosity and lives of integrity. We didn't invest in LX from the outside; we helped build it. Access Ventures became involved in 2015, and the vision solidified when the founding board incorporated LX as a nonprofit in 2019. We remain a committed strategic partner today.
Trinity Capital
Trinity Capital is an international alternative asset manager that provides investors access to the private credit market while providing growth-stage companies the capital they need to scale. It sources, vets, and invests in dynamic, privately funded companies across distinct verticals — technology lending, equipment financing, healthcare and life sciences, sponsor finance, and asset-based lending. We are an investor in Trinity Capital, a relationship deepened by a genuine friendship with its leadership.
AV Foundation
The AV Foundation is a donor's partner for impact, a public charity that helps people realize their philanthropic aspirations while fostering a sense of community around every challenge. We started it with friends, and we continue to support its vision and its growth. The team at Access Ventures provides management support to the Foundation and its donor-advised fund accounts.