Catchafire

Going beyond the grant by connecting nonprofits with skilled volunteers who build the organizations behind the mission.

Catchafire is a capacity-building platform that helps foundations and corporations go beyond the grant by delivering nonprofits the coaching, technical assistance, and skilled volunteers they need to grow stronger and work smarter. We are investors in Catchafire, and we remain invested today.

Why we invested

Money alone doesn't make a nonprofit strong. A grant funds a program, but an organization's ability to execute its strategy, finances, HR, marketing, and technology is what actually sustains the mission. Too often that operational gap goes unaddressed, and even well-funded nonprofits struggle to deliver on their potential.

Catchafire closes that gap by mobilizing something abundant and underused: the professional skills of people who want to help. It matches nonprofits with pro bono experts for scoped projects, giving under-resourced teams access to talent they could never afford to hire. We love this for the same reason we love Virtuous and MobileServe — it's a for-profit business whose entire product amplifies generosity and strengthens the social sector. And as a foundation ourselves, we believe deeply in "going beyond the grant"; Catchafire operationalizes that conviction at scale.

What Catchafire does

• Tailored capacity building — foundations give all their grantees access to pro bono strategy, finance, HR, tech, and marketing support, with no extra program staff required.

• Skills-based volunteering — companies connect employees to meaningful, skills-based projects and events, deepening engagement while strengthening communities.

• Technical assistance and coaching — personalized education, planning tools, and templates that help nonprofits pinpoint and solve their back-office needs.

• Impact reporting — real-time dashboards that show funders exactly how capacity-building support is being used and what it's producing.

Proven impact

By its own reporting, Catchafire has generated:

• $326M+ in nonprofit value created

• 1.6M+ volunteer hours donated

• 15,000+ nonprofits supported

• ~5x average funder ROI in year one with nonprofits reporting up to 8x the value of a grant when paired with skilled volunteers

As a Certified B Corp, Catchafire builds these outcomes into how it operates, not just what it markets.

Why it matters to us

Catchafire strengthens the connective tissue of a flourishing society through the nonprofits doing the hard, close-to-the-ground work of care. By helping funders pair capital with capability and by turning professional skills into shared abundance, it makes generosity go further and mission-driven organizations more resilient. That's a company we're glad to keep backing.

Our role: Investor (current)

Type: Nonprofit capacity-building and skills-based volunteering platform (Certified B Corp)

Focus: Matching nonprofits with pro bono professional talent across strategy, finance, HR, marketing, and technology