Impact investing is complicated. How do you balance impact and investment returns, local vs. global impact, 17 Sustainable Development Goals, debt, equity, and revenue-sharing? All while deciding whether to invest from your savings, your family office, or your foundation or donor-advised fund?
Realize Impact is here to help make impact investing easy. We know how to make impact investments, create impact, and then harvest the investment returns. What we are looking for are your recommendations for impactful investments, and the capital to make those investments.
All it takes are three simple steps:
Make a grant from your donor-advised fund, foundation, or your own funds, recommending an impact investment
Realize Impact does the diligence, reviews the terms, and makes the debt, equity or revenue-based investment.
We donate 99% of the investment returns to your recommended DAF, foundation or other 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Or in other words, you do the easy parts and we’ll do the complicated parts. When you find a good impact investment, tell us about it. We’ll spread the word so that others can join in too, helping catalyze your capital into yet more impact. Later, if the investment turns out to be fruitful, we’ll put almost all of those returns into a donor-advised fund, foundation, or charity, so it can do even more good for the world,–or give us a new suggestion and we’ll invest that capital again and again and again.
We do this for one low flat fee:
$500 for investments
of $10,000 or more.
* There is no fee for investments under $10,000, but the investment returns will not be re-donated.
See the details on the Philanthropic Investment Grant or fill out our PHIG Recommendation form to get started.
See the FAQ to answer the most frequently asked questions about this service.
And yes, the service is as simple as it sounds, by design.
Pecos Wind Power designs and manufactures community-scale wind turbines for low-cost electricity generation at industry-leading low wind speeds and at less than ⅓ the height of typical utility-scale turbines. Their turbines can complement or replace behind-the-meter solar installations at rurally located commercial customers, facilitating electricity generation at a fraction of the physical...
We are excited to announce our investment in Atlas Power, through the Decarbon8 partnership with E8 Angels. Atlas Power manufactures supercapacitors for use in energy storage applications where power is required in short duration intervals. For context, as the fraction of power generated by renewables has increased, the ability of the electric grid to respond to supply-demand imbalances has...
Through the Decarbon8 partnership with E8 Angels, we are excited to announce our investment in Cecilia Energy (CE), which is addressing the plastic waste crisis while producing clean energy. CE commercializes a modular, distributable microwave-based system that upcycles plastic waste into clean hydrogen and performance carbon, specifically carbon nanotubes. This electricity-powered process is...
EFM Fund IV is a $300M majority women owned and managed fund that runs on the belief that natural forests are worth more than the commodity value of the lumber they produce. The fund focuses not only on investible natural assets (timber), but also carbon offsets, conservation easements, and biodiversity credits. The fund aims to acquire and transition 100,000 acres of forestland and sequester 5...
We launched our philanthropic investment program in February 2020 and by the end of 2023 averaged over $1 million per month in donations. Since the launch, we’ve received more than $50 million in total, accounting for more than 800 transactions. Please help us continue this growth. Make a philanthropic investment today. In what? Check our our blog for our investments and check out The Liist...
The Lighthouse Nonprofit Leadership and Services Expansion Project aims to enhance and expand resources for under-resourced nonprofit leaders in the Denver metro area, with a focus on women, BIPOC+, and LGBTQ+ leaders. By supporting these nonprofit employees, the project aims to enhance their capacity to serve marginalized communities more effectively, ultimately contributing to greater social...
Ownify is a fractional homeownership program for first-time homebuyers. Instead of using a mortgage to purchase a home, participants in Ownify (“Ownis”) purchase incremental equity with each monthly payment and grow their ownership stake in their home. Once an Owni has a 10% equity stake, they can qualify for a traditional mortgage. We love this approach because it improves access to home...
Matriark Foods makes healthy vegetable pantry staples that eliminate food waste by upcycling farm surplus and fresh-cut remnants. Their products reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase revenue for farmers, and expand access to healthy food. Anna Hammond, founder and CEO of Matriark Foods Thirty-seven percent of all food grown in the U.S. is wasted, a third of which is edible and fresh. Sending...
This fiscal sponsorship will help individuals in Colombia between the ages of 18-28 improve their candidacy in the workforce and boost their earning potential. Since 2021, Forte Global has managed investments in workforce development in the U.S., Australia, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. Forte x EAFIT is an initiative being led by the Forte team in collaboration with EAFIT University...
Now recruiting for our Board of Directors and our Investment Committee! Interested in one or both of these roles with a dynamic, high-growth nonprofit in the impact investing arena? Learn more and apply here: Board of Directors Investment Committee Despite our audacious use of AI-generated imagery in this post, rest assured our Board and IC meetings are unlikely to include potted plants or take...