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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.
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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.
Attane Health
Attane Health helps people manage chronic health conditions through food. It delivers personalized groceries, one-on-one telehealth coaching, and the data healthcare partners need to measure outcomes, all built to reduce the cost of care and improve people's health. We are an investor in Attane, and the company first came to us through our Reconstruct Challenge, where it won both Phase 1 and Phase 2.
Navigate Maternity
Navigate Maternity is a maternal health technology company that uses data to support both patients and providers through pregnancy and the year after birth. Its platform pairs FDA-cleared, connected devices with a mobile app and human support, giving moms real-time monitoring and clinicians the information they need to intervene early. Navigate came to us through the Reconstruct Challenge, where it won a Phase 1 grant, and we followed with a Phase 2 investment.
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.
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.
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.
Kairos
Kairos Investment Management Company (KIMC) is a disciplined real estate investor whose name says a lot about its philosophy — kairos, the opportune moment when conditions are right for a crucial action. Kairos invests across commercial and multifamily real estate in the lower middle market, pairing rigorous, capital-preservation-first underwriting with a genuine commitment to impact. We are an investor in Kairos's impact-oriented real estate strategies.
Samaritan
Samaritan is a mobile-first community built to support people experiencing homelessness designed with the input of people who've been homeless, social workers, developers, and experts in Medicaid and emergency healthcare. Its premise is simple and human: walk with, not by. Samaritan lets people learn the stories of the neighbors they pass every day, fund critical needs, and help create lifelines of hope linking individuals without a home to the social and financial capital they need to meet real housing and health goals.
Leap Fund
Leap Fund takes on the benefits cliff, also called the cliff effect: the moment a worker earns a dollar or two more an hour and, as a result, loses public benefits worth far more than the raise. People end up earning more and netting less. Leap Fund builds the tools, education, and data to expose these cliffs and help people make informed decisions, while pushing for the policy changes that would end them. Leap Fund came to us through the Reconstruct Challenge, winning our 2022 Employment challenge with a Phase 1 and a Phase 2 grant.
Nesterly
Nesterly is a home-sharing platform that helps people share a home with someone they can trust for stays of a month or longer. A homeowner with a spare room, often an older adult, is matched with a vetted renter, often a student or young professional, who pays affordable rent and can lend a hand around the house in exchange for an even lower rate. Nesterly handles the vetting, leases, payments, and support. The company came to us through our Reconstruct Challenge, where it won a Phase 1 grant, and we followed with a Phase 2 investment.
Hot Chicken Takeover
Hot Chicken Takeover (HCT) was a Nashville-style hot chicken restaurant founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 2014 by Joe DeLoss and was one of the country's most compelling examples of "fair-chance" employment. We were early investors in HCT, and we exited our position before the founder departed and sold the business. The company has since closed, but the model it demonstrated remains one we're proud to have backed.
Haven Connect
Haven Connect builds software for affordable housing. It gives property managers tools to manage applications and waitlists, and it streamlines the application process for the people trying to find a home. Haven Connect came to us through our Reconstruct Challenge, where it won a Phase 1 grant, and we followed with a Phase 2 investment.
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.
mRelief
mRelief helps people access the food assistance they are eligible for through a simple, dignified experience. Instead of confusing forms and long lines, mRelief lets families check eligibility and apply for SNAP in minutes, by text or online. mRelief came to us through our Reconstruct Challenge, winning both a Phase 1 and a Phase 2 grant, together totaling $650,000 of support.