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Realize Impact is a philanthropic capital investment non-profit that helps donors make impact investments through their Philanthropic Investment Grants (PHIGs) program. They serve as an intermediary where donors make grants to them and recommend where the funds should be invested, allowing philanthropic capital to flow into impact investments. They also provide fiscal sponsorship services for mission-driven organizations without 501(c)(3) status.
Their mission is to relieve poverty, create jobs, and improve social and environmental health by investing in impactful companies that lack access to financing from conventional sources. They operate on the principle that all investing should be impact investing, and their purpose is to make impact investing easy, rewarding, and possible for everyone. The organization follows values of audacity, responsibility, and bridge-building in their approach.
Realize Impact plays a crucial role in the ecosystem by bridging the gap between philanthropic donors and impact investments, making it easier for traditional philanthropists to participate in impact investing. They distinguish themselves by focusing on true impact rather than ESG metrics, emphasizing what companies do rather than just how they operate. Their model enables the recycling of returns from successful investments back into new impact opportunities, multiplying the effect of initial donations.
Realize Impact focuses on investing in impactful companies that lack access to financing from conventional sources, targeting businesses that create positive social and environmental outcomes. They specifically distinguish their approach from ESG investing, emphasizing that they measure what a company does (impact) rather than just how it operates (ESG practices). Their investments are designed to relieve poverty, create jobs, and improve social and environmental health.
The organization operates through philanthropic capital rather than traditional investment capital, allowing them to take on investments that may not meet conventional financial return expectations but deliver significant social or environmental impact. They work with entrepreneurs seeking philanthropic capital to fuel their social or environmental impact, and partner with fund managers to unlock philanthropic capital for impact-focused funds.
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Accessible Impact Investing
PHIGs enable anyone to be an impact investor, not just accredited high-net-worth individuals.
Full Service Administration
Realize Impact handles due diligence, makes investments, and administers the entire process for donor-investors.
Recycled Returns
Investment returns can be recycled back into additional impact investments to multiply impact over time.
Low-Cost Fiscal Sponsorship
Enables mission-driven organizations without 501(c)(3) status to receive grants and donations with just 2.5% admin fee.
