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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kyndly
Kyndly is a health benefits technology company that makes it easy to offer an ICHRA, the Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement. Instead of a one-size-fits-all group plan, an ICHRA lets an employer give workers tax-advantaged dollars to choose the individual health plan that fits their life. Kyndly provides the turnkey, white-label platform that benefits administrators, FMOs, and general agencies use to deliver it at scale. Kyndly first came to us through our Reconstruct Challenge, where it won a Phase 1 grant, and we followed with a Phase 2 investment.
TriLinc Global
TriLinc Global empowers investors to put private capital to work for measurable social and environmental impact without sacrificing returns. Through its Private Debt Plus® strategy, TriLinc provides term loans and trade finance to established, growth-stage small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing economies, the businesses that create jobs and build communities but are chronically starved of growth capital. We are an investor in the TriLinc Global Impact Fund, part of the impact-oriented, global reach of our portfolio.
Clear Frontier
ClearFrontier Ag Management (CFAM) is a leading organic farmland investment manager driving measurable impact through the transition of conventional U.S. farmland to Certified USDA Organic. We are an investor in ClearFrontier's Meadowlark Lands Fund, part of our real assets allocation and capital that stewards the land while pursuing durable returns.
Vision Ridge Partners
Vision Ridge Partners is a leading sustainable real assets investor that seeks to capitalize on the global transition to sustainability by investing in complex, tangible assets across energy, transportation, and agriculture to drive positive environmental impact while delivering strong financial returns. We are an investor in Vision Ridge as part of our real assets allocation.
Lendable
Lendable is a technology-enabled investment platform that provides asset-backed debt to fintech companies across emerging and frontier markets. Our investment carries the same conviction across borders that guides our work at home: capital deployed not just for profit, but for human flourishing.
Reconstruct Challenge
KNOW Homelessness
For many of us, homelessness feels like a problem that is too big, too complicated to address. We wanted to break through that fatigue with human connection, with attention, and with information We found that the common understandings and representations of homeless communities are incomplete.
The goal was to start a conversation.
Community Investment Management (CIM)
Access to responsible credit is one of the most basic conditions of economic agency. Without it, a capable borrower can't buy the vehicle that gets them to work, smooth an uneven month, or fund the inventory that grows a business not because they are unreliable, but because legacy underwriting can't see them.
CIM was built to close that gap at scale.
Render Capital
Mobileserve
MobileServe makes it simple to track, verify, and celebrate volunteer service. Its platform lets students and teams log hours in a few taps, verify service with signatures, photos, email, or geotagging, and roll it all up into clear reporting that shows an organization's real impact over time. We were the first check into MobileServe, and we've held a board seat since day one.