Stewarded by Realize Impact
One contribution across four strategies that would each normally need their own diligence.
At a glance
A pooled fund from Realize Impact blending several non-extractive strategies into a single contribution: shared-appreciation homeownership lending, non-extractive small business credit, climate and clean-energy infrastructure, and early-stage community enterprise. The positions are already selected and underwritten — Realize Impact, a 501(c)(3), completed diligence and executes the investments itself. One grant reaches the whole spread, with no deal-by-deal review left on your side.
Press to open DAFpay, where you choose your DAF provider and set the amount. The grant goes to Realize Impact, and you approve it inside your own provider's system.
Open DAFpayMinimum No stated minimum. Your grant goes to Realize Impact — never to dafimpact.org. It is irrevocable once accepted. This fund uses DAFpay's hosted checkout, so set the amount on that page rather than here.
The thesis
Each of the strategies in this fund is ordinarily its own project: its own diligence, its own terms, its own minimum, its own relationship to maintain. A contributor who wanted exposure to all four would be running four processes. Blending them into one pooled position is the whole point — the spread is the product.
Realize Impact carries the structure underneath it, and has already done the work: each underlying position has been diligenced, its terms reviewed, and the investment executed by Realize Impact as a 501(c)(3). Capital arrives as a Philanthropic Investment Grant — a grant from your donor-advised fund or foundation rather than a transfer of assets — so it is charitable from the moment it lands and stays charitable through whatever it funds.
How this fund deploys
Matching the instrument to the stage is the whole discipline. A cooperative buying its building and a first-time manager raising an anchor commitment need different money, on different terms, with different definitions of return.
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Second-lien lending that carries no interest and no monthly payment, deferred until sale or refinance, pairing with a conventional first mortgage so a buyer can enter with a small down payment. The fund's return comes from home-price appreciation rather than from interest, and repayments recycle into the next household.
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Below-market loans to small and worker-owned businesses on terms built around real cash flow, without collateral requirements that would put community assets at risk.
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Financing for clean-energy deployment and the software and infrastructure that removes friction from it — the unglamorous layer that determines how fast projects actually get built.
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Equity and revenue-based positions in ventures building physical infrastructure for local economies, including food systems and cold chain, where the enterprise is the thing the community was missing.
The listing, in full
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.
Regulatory disclosure
DAF Impact lists pooled charitable funds and routes contributions to them; it is not itself a sponsoring organization, a broker, or an investment adviser, and nothing on this site is an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy a security. Every contribution is a grant recommendation made from your own donor-advised fund or foundation to the listed fund's sponsoring entity, and is irrevocable once that sponsor accepts it. Each listed fund is governed by its own sponsor, whose charitable-purpose intent review, due diligence and final administrative verification determine whether and how capital is deployed. Recoverable instruments carry a genuine risk of non-return; capital that does return remains charitable and is redeployed, never distributed to contributors. Adding a fund to an allocation, or submitting an interest profile, does not create a binding asset-transfer contract or any guarantee of return.