WHAT WE DO
List, compare, route
Maintain the directory, hold each listing to the same disclosure standard, and hand your grant recommendation to your own DAF provider with the right fund designated on it.
About
Infrastructure, not another fund.
DAF Impact does not hold capital, pick winners, or take a position on which of these funds deserves yours. It exists so that a person holding charitable capital can see a short list of credible places to put it, compare them honestly, and act the same afternoon.
What this is
A list with real figures on it, and a button that works.
DAF Impact opens up the vehicles that usually require knowing someone — recoverable grants, community loan funds, cooperative equity — and puts them on the same page as the instruments you already use.
Each listing states its steward, its sponsor, its minimum, its instruments and its reporting commitment to the same standard, so you can judge a fund on disclosure rather than on introductions. Around $326B sits in donor-advised funds nationally; this is a route for the part of it that is ready to move.
WHAT WE DO NOT DO
Hold, advise, or rank
We never custody your capital, never give investment or tax advice, and publish no ranking. Listings appear in a fixed order, and the filters are yours to set.
WHO DECIDES
The sponsors, every time
Whether capital deploys, to whom, and on what terms is decided by each fund's steward and fiscal sponsor under their own diligence. Being listed here is not an endorsement by us, and is not a substitute for your own review.
Getting listed
What a fund has to show to be listed.
The bar
- A named fiscal sponsor that will receive and hold the capital
- A named steward accountable for diligence and deployment
- Instruments stated plainly, including whether capital is designed to return
- A stated minimum, or an explicit statement that there is none
- A reporting commitment with a cadence on it
- Charitable-purpose review completed or demonstrably under way
Listings that have cleared the first five but not the sixth appear in the directory marked in diligence, with no minimum and no button, until they clear it. We would rather show you what is coming than pretend the directory is fuller than it is.
Two ways in, depending on how ready you are.
If you know where you want capital to land, press the button on that fund and your DAF provider takes it from there. If you would rather spread it, build an allocation across several funds and send the whole thing at once.