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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Render Capital
Kiva
Kiva is a peer-to-peer platform that lets anyone crowdfund a 0%-interest loan of up to $10,000 for an entrepreneur and it’s capital extended on the strength of character and community rather than collateral and credit scores. We became one of Kiva's earliest and most trusted implementation partners in the U.S., launching Kiva Louisville, then Kiva Columbus, and then Kiva Tulsa, and serving as a hands-on partner for roughly three years.
Cliffwater
Cliffwater is one of the most respected authorities in private credit. Founded in 2004 and 100% employee-owned, the firm advises many of the country's largest pensions, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds on alternative investments, and manages its own suite of private-debt funds. We invest through Cliffwater's flagship vehicle, the Cliffwater Corporate Lending Fund (CCLFX), a core private-credit allocation within our portfolio.
Lenderfit
Lenderfit is cloud-based loan origination and servicing software built for CDFIs and mission-driven lenders, an intuitive, mobile-friendly platform that lets small lenders do far more with the teams they have. We founded Lenderfit to scale a hard-won lesson from our own lending, and after helping incubate and launch it, we have since sold our ownership. The company continues today, serving mission-driven lenders across 29 states.
SoLo Funds
SoLo Funds is a community finance platform where members step up for one another by lending and borrowing on their own terms, without the mandatory fees, rollover traps, and compound interest that define so much of small-dollar credit. Founded in 2018 by Travis Holoway and Rodney Williams, SoLo set out to build something more human: a place where a nurse in Ohio can lend $100 to help a gig worker in Texas cover a car repair, and both are better for it.