How does SharedImpact address the problem with the philanthropic market?

Mark Hays
SharedImpact
Published in
1 min readSep 22, 2016

SharedImpact is a new type of organization — a financial service provider that is not only focused on the efficient and effective management of philanthropic capital, but is also armed with a powerful capability to engage in complex tax and jurisdictional arbitrage.

SharedImpact was founded in 2010 to address this core gap in the charity markets with a more flexible, more efficient, and more transparent platform to a traditional DAF. In the context of the aforementioned impact investing spectrum, SharedImpact is the first of its kind to take capital typically designated purely for philanthropy and bring it closer to the middle.

SharedImpact’s Donation Model

SharedImpact addresses the gap in the market, and, eliminates the key limitations of traditional DAFs as follows:

What about SharedImpact’s structure gives it such an advantage? More on that next week.

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