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
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.
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.
Goodwater
Goodwater Capital backs founders building consumer technology for everyday life, with a data-driven research approach it publishes openly. Access Ventures held a position with Goodwater as part of its mission-aligned endowment.
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.
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.
CreativeMornings Louisville
CreativeMornings is the world's largest face-to-face creative community with free monthly breakfast talks held in cities around the globe. We founded, funded, and anchored the Louisville chapter, launching it in 2015 as a natural outgrowth of our creative-economy work in Shelby Park. What began as a way to find and connect the city's creatives became one of the most beloved recurring events in Louisville.
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.
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.
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.
Virtuous
Virtuous is the modern fundraising platform built to help nonprofits create more personal donor experiences and grow giving with less work. Founded in 2014 by Gabe Cooper (a founder we're proud to call a good friend) Virtuous pioneered the idea of responsive fundraising: using data, automation, and now AI to help charities treat every donor as a person, not a transaction.
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.