Global Impact Advisors

What Global Impact Advisors does

Global Impact Advisors (GIA), LLC is a privately held social impact consulting firm headquartered in Redwood City, California, founded in 2013. The firm delivers advisory services to foundations, non-profits, and corporations across four focus areas: global public health, environmental sustainability, global development, and US programs. Its service portfolio is organized around three pillars — strategy, project management, and measurement, learning & evaluation — supplemented by organizational development and strategic alliances/partnerships support.

GIA's delivery model is human-capital intensive: a team of approximately 15 professionals, many with prior tenure at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Boston Consulting Group, USAID, and other major global health institutions, provides tailored project teams combining strategists, evaluators, and technical experts. The firm operates virtually across North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Northern Europe, following its clients rather than maintaining a fixed geographic footprint. Notable engagements include multi-year strategy and evaluation work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CIFF's climate change portfolio, Women Deliver's Young Leaders Program, and the launch of a Bay Area multi-sector global health alliance with UCSF.

GIA generates revenue through professional consulting services billed on a project/engagement basis; pricing is not publicly disclosed. Its go-to-market approach is relationship-led rather than transactional, leveraging founder and team networks, LinkedIn outreach, and thought leadership (including published evaluation reports) to attract enterprise foundation and non-profit clients. The firm is bootstrapped/independently owned with no disclosed external funding rounds, and operates as a single legal entity (Global Impact Advisors, LLC) without subsidiaries.

Name

Global Impact Advisors

Legal name

Global Impact Advisors, LLC

Website

https://globalimpactadvisors.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Global Impact Advisors is a boutique social impact consulting firm delivering strategy, project management, and measurement/evaluation advisory to foundations, non-profits, and corporations across global health, sustainability, and development.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Impact Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Sustainability & ESG Consulting (BPAHACAK)

Keywords

• Social impact consulting
• Global health advisory
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Strategy consulting
• Organizational development

Headquarters

HQ city

Redwood City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Global Impact Advisors generates revenue through professional consulting services delivered to foundations, non-profits, and corporations. Their services span strategy development, project management, measurement and evaluation, and organizational development. They operate on a relationship-based model with long-term partnerships rather than transactional engagements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Global Impact Advisors is a social impact consulting firm that delivers strategy development, project management, measurement/evaluation, organizational development, and strategic alliance support to foundations, non-profits, and corporations. Engagements span four focus areas: global public health, environmental sustainability, global development, and US programs, and are executed by tailored teams of strategists, evaluators, and technical experts working virtually across global markets.

Product overview

Global Impact Advisors is a social impact consulting firm offering a unified set of advisory and execution services organized around three core pillars: strategy development, project management, and measurement, evaluation and learning. Their service portfolio includes organizational development and strategic alliance support, delivered across four key focus areas—global public health, environmental sustainability, global development, and US programs. The firm tailors project teams combining strategists, evaluators, and technical experts to address complex organizational challenges for foundations, non-profits, and corporations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Strategy Development and Advisory Support
• Project Management
• Measurement, Learning and Evaluation
• Organizational Development
• Strategic Alliances and Partnerships
• Global Public Health Services
• Environmental Sustainability Services
• Global Development Services
• US Programs Services

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Aline ImpactcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGIA partnered with Aline Impact to create a theory of change and organizational results framework in collaboration with a global non-profit in environmental sustainability. The partnership contributed to the client's competitive advantage in an emerging market.
• Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGIA has worked extensively with Gates Foundation on strategy development, program management, and evaluation across global health and family planning portfolios. Multiple team members previously worked at the foundation, bringing deep institutional knowledge.
• Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGIA conducted multiple assignments with CIFF spanning 3 months to 3 years in evaluation, M&E capacity development, and evidence reviews for the climate change portfolio.
• CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFeatured organization that GIA has worked with in the global sustainability space.
• Women DelivercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGIA conducted a complex external evaluation of two functional aspects of Women Deliver's flagship Young Leaders Program, delivering recommendations that optimized selection strategy and operational processes.
• Vital StrategiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGIA supported Vital Strategies in developing organizational values over a 3-month period, engaging staff through inclusive focus groups and delivering values that reflected diverse staff input.
• University of WashingtonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGIA conducted evaluation work for University of Washington, providing objective findings and facilitating evaluation findings workshop with key stakeholders for strategic planning.
• University of California San Francisco (UCSF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGIA worked with UCSF on assessing implementation sciences landscape in academic global health and launching a new multi-sector global health alliance for the Bay Area.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Abt Associates: Large research and consulting firm with deep global health and development evaluation practices serving foundations and USAID. Comparable capabilities at meaningfully larger scale.
• Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Global Health and Social Impact practice: Global management consulting firm with a dedicated global health and social impact practice staffed by multiple former BCG leaders now at GIA. Comparable in services offered but vastly larger in scale and brand.

Direct peers

• FSG (Reimagining Social Impact): Mission-driven consulting firm advising foundations and corporations on impact strategy, evaluation, and collective action. Direct peer in social impact strategy and foundation advisory services.
• Results for Development Institute (R4D): Global health and development organization providing advisory, research, and M&E services to foundations and governments. Comparable given overlapping global health focus and foundation client base.
• The Bridgespan Group: Nonprofit and philanthropy consulting firm providing strategy, M&E, and organizational development services to foundations and nonprofits. Highly comparable to GIA's foundation-focused, mission-driven consulting model.
• Dalberg Advisors: Global social impact strategy consulting firm serving foundations, NGOs, and corporations across global health, climate, and development. Closest direct competitor to GIA given similar size, mission focus, and foundation client base.
• Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI): Global health organization working with governments and foundations to strengthen health systems in low- and middle-income countries. Highly comparable on family planning, HIV, and global health program support.
• Palladium: Global advisory firm implementing international development programs across health, climate, and economic growth. Comparable on global health and development consulting services with similar foundation/government client mix.
• Mathematica: Research and evaluation consultancy serving foundations and government agencies on social program impact, with deep M&E capabilities in health and development. Comparable to GIA on M&E and foundation-facing evaluation work; larger scale.

Emerging players

• Aline Impact: Impact measurement and strategy firm focused on social and environmental outcomes. Listed as GIA's collaboration partner on theory-of-change work; comparable niche in results frameworks.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/globalimpactadvisors

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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