About Rsf Social Finance
Change finance, finance change. RSF is an impact-first financial services organization that mobilizes capital (investments, donor-advised funds, and loans) toward social, economic, and environmental regeneration.
Focus Areas
Regenerative food and agricultureClean energy / climateWhole-child educationCommunity economic developmentMission-aligned lending and impact investing
Who They Fund
forcibly displaced people / migrantsIndigenous peoples (including Indigenous women; Haudenosaunee)smallholder farmers in West Africa (Ghana, Burkina Faso) and regional farmer collectivesBlack communities and movement organizations (e.g., Movement for Black Lives)trans communities and sex workers
About Rsf Social Finance
Rsf Social Finance Inc’s recent giving shows a strong mix of capital-moving intermediaries and movement-focused funds, with seven-figure grants to Impactassets Inc, National Black Food and Justice Alliance, Global Whole Being Fund, Living Lands Trust, and National Philanthropic Trust. That pattern fits its role as an impact-first financial services organization that mobilizes capital through investments, donor-advised funds, and loans toward social, economic, and environmental regeneration. The foundation’s portfolio reaches across regenerative food and agriculture, clean energy and climate, whole-child education, community economic development, and mission-aligned lending and impact investing. Within that mix, it also supports funds working on displacement, indigenous rights, reparations and Black land justice, trans and sex-worker justice, and local economies. Several large grants were made for general operating support, while others were tied to named funds or initiatives. The recent list includes repeated support for organizations such as Fwdus Education Fund Inc, Choose Love Inc, Living Lands Trust, New World Foundation, Land Is Life Inc, and Ekvnv Yefolecvlke, suggesting ongoing relationships rather than one-off awards. Rsf Social Finance Inc also uses financing tools directly, including lines of credit, term loans, and customized financing for mission-driven businesses and nonprofits in the United States.
What Rsf Social Finance Funds
In displacement and humanitarian work, Rsf Social Finance Inc gave $5,250,000 to Fwdus Education Fund Inc for ecosystem-based grassroots support for forcibly displaced people along the U.S.-Mexico border and for the National Dignity for Families Fund. It also gave $800,000 to the same grantee to support the ecosystem that improves rights and wellbeing of people on the move. In land, Indigenous rights, and territory protection, the foundation gave $1,020,000 to Land Is Life Inc for Alianza Milpa, and later $980,000 to the same organization for protection of Indigenous territories, free prior informed consent, participation of Indigenous women, and Indigenous peoples’ human rights. Its food and agriculture work includes $870,000 to the Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund for the SoCo regional marketing system, farmer marketing readiness, and general operating support. It also supported the Black land and reparations field with $1,675,000 to the Center for Third World Organizing for Reparations Summer by the Black Land Liberation Initiative.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$48.2M
Total Assets
$108.4M
Total Revenue
$41M
Total Expenses
$62.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $12K and $55K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$12K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$55K
Geographic Reach
National51 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
JASPER J VAN BRAKEL
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