About Impact Charitable
As a philanthropic capital intermediary, Impact Charitable serves as a bridge between funders and communities, designing responsive pathways that unlock and accelerate capital to ventures, projects, and funds.
Focus Areas
Economic mobilityDirect cash assistance / guaranteed incomeAffordable housingSmall business and entrepreneur supportCommunity wealth-building and racial equityImpact-first investing / catalytic investmentsClimate justice (mentioned as an area supported)
Who They Fund
Native / tribal partners and communitieslow-income households and communitiesunderresourced / underrepresented entrepreneursfirst-time homeowners
About Impact Charitable
Impact Charitable stands out as a philanthropic capital intermediary: it designs responsive pathways that move capital into ventures, projects, and funds, and it also makes program-related investments. That model shows up in its recent grants, where large commitments support tribal economic development, equitable capital distribution, and inclusive entrepreneurship. The foundation’s biggest recent grant went to Mission Driven Finance for coordination of Native partners to mobilize capital for tribal economic development programs, signaling a strong interest in capital access for Native and tribal communities. Another major grant supported Tgc Impact for equitable capital distribution, while a separate award to Next Street backed inclusive entrepreneurship. The foundation’s portfolio also reaches into housing, child care, climate justice, and direct cash assistance. Recent grants include support for wraparound services for homeowners, child care access for low-income communities, and meals for low-income communities. Impact Charitable also operates direct programs, including a Denver basic income pilot and a maternal cash assistance pilot, which place unconditional cash at the center of some of its work. Across its grantmaking, the pattern is less about a single issue than about capital design: grants, pooled funds, and catalytic investments are used together to support community-centered initiatives.
What Impact Charitable Funds
Impact Charitable supports tribal economic development through a large grant to Mission Driven Finance for support coordinating Native partners to mobilize capital. In entrepreneurship, it gave $946,200 to Next Street for inclusive entrepreneurship, and it also made a series of $35,625 grants to businesses including Sienna Naturals, Abi Ame, Inde Wild, Maed Beauty, Katini Skin, Harlem Perfume Co, and Banuskin for underresourced entrepreneur support. Housing and household stability are another clear theme. Dearfield Capital Management received $300,000 for wraparound services for homeowners, and a separate $300,000 grant supported services for first-time homeowners. The foundation also backed child care finance and access, including loan forgiveness to finance renovations of child care facilities and child care access for low-income communities. Climate justice appears in a grant to Climate Justice Fund LLC for supporting climate justice projects, and food security appears in support for meals for low-income communities through Tocabe Indigenous Marketplace.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$7.5M
Total Assets
$40.7M
Total Revenue
$24.5M
Total Expenses
$16.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $25K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
National25 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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Leadership
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