Impact Funding Resources
Now in its fourteenth year, the ImpactAssets 50 is the most recognized free database of impact investment fund managers. This annually updated list is a gateway into the world of impact investing for investors, financial advisors and philanthropists.
The IA 50 offers an easy way to identify experienced and emerging impact fund managers and is intended to illustrate the breadth of impact fund managers operating today. Fund managers selected to the IA 50 demonstrate a wide range of impact investing activities across geographies, sectors and asset classes.
The IA 50 offers an easy way to identify experienced and emerging impact fund managers and is intended to illustrate the breadth of impact fund managers operating today. Fund managers selected to the IA 50 demonstrate a wide range of impact investing activities across geographies, sectors and asset classes.
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The IA 50 offers an easy way to identify experienced and emerging impact fund managers and is intended to illustrate the breadth of impact fund managers operating today. Fund managers selected to the IA 50 demonstrate a wide range of impact investing activities across geographies, sectors and asset classes.
Spotlight impact fund managers across three distinct categories
1) Emerging Impact Manager
2) Fund Managers
3) Emeritus Manager
1) IA 50 Baseline Criteria
All fund managers included in the IA 50 are evaluated at the firm level.
• 5 year minimum operating history
• Fund Manager must operate in any of the following:
o More than one country;
o A country with significant population;
o A sizeable region of the United States; and/or
o An area where local funding is insufficient to support community needs.
• Manage assets that are recoverable
• Accept US investment
• Have demonstrated financial capacity/oversight
• Have demonstrated significant commitment to social impact and have tracked clear measures of social and/or environmental impact (GIIRS rating, use IRIS metrics, or other indicators to be determined)
2) Emeritus Manager Criteria
All of the IA 50 Baseline criteria as well as:
• Minimum of 5 previous years on the IA 50
• Demonstrated commitment to impact thesis and are actively investing
Emeritus Managers will be selected based on the size and composition of the application pool.
3) Emerging Impact Manager Criteria
All of the IA 50 Baseline criteria except:
• No minimum operating history required
Emerging Impact Managers will be selected based on the size and composition of the application pool.
