Co-Impact

What Co-Impact does

Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds, Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated 501(c)(3) equivalent global philanthropic collaborative founded in 2017 by Olivia Leland, formerly the founding director of the Giving Pledge. The organization mobilizes pooled philanthropic capital from a network of more than 60 funders across 16 countries — including Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott, the Rockefeller Foundation, Minderoo Foundation, LEGO Foundation, Estée Lauder, Fondation CHANEL, Cartier, and ICONIQ Impact — and deploys flexible, multi-year grants plus strategic support to locally-rooted organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America working to strengthen health, education, and economic systems, with a central commitment to gender equality.

Co-Impact's product portfolio comprises the Foundational Fund (core systems-change funding), the Gender Fund (gender-equity focus), the Women's Health Co-Lab (a 2025 collaborative fund launched with ICONIQ Impact supporting 22 organizations on maternal health, SRHR, and gender-based violence), the Design Phase (an 8–12 month structured program for partners to develop multi-year systems-change strategies), and Strategic Support Services (capacity-building, learning, and measurement). The organization reports cumulative mobilization of over $870 million across 140+ initiatives, projecting reach to 840 million+ people and a target of deploying over $1 billion by 2030. Operations are deliberately lean: approximately 10 staff members distributed across 8 countries and 5 continents, with local teams responsible for partner sourcing and contextual expertise.

The business model is collaborative philanthropy rather than commercial revenue generation. Co-Impact does not sell products or services; it aggregates donor commitments into pooled funds, applies an internal design and due-diligence process, and disburses grants. Its value proposition rests on the ability to channel larger, longer-term, more flexible capital than any single funder could provide alone, combined with operational methodology (the Design Phase, M&E frameworks, organizational strengthening) that lowers friction for high-impact local partners. Revenue, to the extent the term applies, consists of operational grants and overhead retained from funder commitments; specific figures are not publicly disclosed.

Name

Co-Impact

Legal name

Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds, Inc.

Website

https://co-impact.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Co-Impact is a global philanthropic collaborative, founded in 2017, that pools capital from 60+ funders to provide flexible multi-year grants and strategic support to locally-rooted organizations across Africa, Asia, and Latin America working to strengthen health, education, and economic systems with a focus on gender equality.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Collaborative Philanthropy Services

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

International Grantmaking & Development Foundations (BPAGAKAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Grantmaking & Philanthropic Funds (Institutional Donors) (BPADAOAB), Impact Investing & Social Finance (Funds, CDFIs, Microfinance) (BPAGALAA), Gender Lens / Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Funds (FSANAJAM), Global Health Financing Mechanisms & Pooled Funds (HLAJAOAC)

Keywords

• Collaborative philanthropy
• Systems change funding
• Gender equality grants
• Pooled philanthropic capital
• Flexible long-term grants

Headquarters

HQ city

New City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Philanthropic Capital Deployment: Co-Impact mobilizes pooled philanthropic capital from a global network of over 60 funders including philanthropists like Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott, and foundations such as Rockefeller, Estée Lauder, Chanel, and Cartier. They deploy flexible, long-term grants to local changemakers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to strengthen health, education, and economic systems.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Co-Impact is a global philanthropic collaborative that pools funding from more than 60 funders (foundations, philanthropists, and corporations) and deploys flexible, long-term grants alongside strategic support to locally-rooted organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Its core offering centers on two fund vehicles — the Foundational Fund and the Gender Fund — supplemented by an 8-12 month Design Phase and ongoing strategic capacity-building services to advance health, education, and economic systems change with a central commitment to gender equality.

Product overview

Co-Impact is a global philanthropic collaborative that offers a portfolio of funding vehicles and support services. The core offering consists of two fund vehicles: the Foundational Fund (for health, education, and economic systems change) and the Gender Fund (for gender equality and women's leadership). Additional offerings include the Women's Health Co-Lab (a $100M collaborative fund with ICONIQ Impact), the Design Phase (an 8-12 month strategic planning service for program partners), and Strategic Support Services (capacity-building, coaching, and organizational strengthening). Together, these products provide flexible, long-term funding and strategic support to locally-rooted organizations across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Foundational Fund: Co-Impact's core funding mechanism supporting health, education, and economic systems change initiatives across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
• Gender Fund
• Women's Health Co-Lab

Products and services

• Foundational Fund

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 840 million people projected to be reached through improved systems
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ICONIQ ImpactcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 September 2025ICONIQ Impact and Co-Impact co-launched the Women's Health Co-Lab, a $100 million collaborative philanthropy fund addressing maternal health, sexual and reproductive health rights, and gender-based violence. Supports 22 organizations over three years. Founding donors include Melinda French Gates, Jennifer Gates Nassar, and Phoebe Gates.
• Every Mother CountscoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGrantee organization in the Women's Health Co-Lab working to strengthen maternal healthcare delivery systems.
• Ujamaa AfricacoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGrantee organization in the Women's Health Co-Lab working on gender-based violence prevention and shifting patriarchal norms.
• Americans for ContraceptioncoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGrantee organization in the Women's Health Co-Lab working to expand access to sexual and reproductive healthcare.
• Girl EffectcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGrantee organization in the Women's Health Co-Lab working on sexual and reproductive health information and targeted media campaigns.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• The Rockefeller Foundation: A large, established global foundation funding health, education, and economic systems work — directly comparable in mission and sectors, while also being one of Co-Impact's major funding partners.
• Open Society Foundations: A large private foundation with global grantmaking in human rights, health, education, and economic justice — comparable in scale, international grantmaking model, and advocacy for marginalized populations.
• Omidyar Network: A philanthropy and impact-investing firm founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, with global portfolios in education, governance, and economic opportunity — comparable in pooled-finance approach and systems-change orientation.
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: The largest global health and development foundation, with deep overlap on health systems, gender equality, and education in the Global South — provides both a comparable reference point and a potential funder counterpart.

Direct peers

• New Profit: A venture philanthropy organization that pools philanthropic capital to back social enterprises and nonprofits working on systems change in education, economic mobility, and health — closely analogous in model and mission.
• Mulago Foundation: A pooled philanthropy foundation that funds portfolios of high-impact enterprises and nonprofits in the Global South, with a focus on scalable, evidence-based solutions — directly comparable in pooled-fund structure and international development focus.
• Blue Meridian Partners: A pooled philanthropic fund that aggregates capital from multiple donors to make large, long-term, unrestricted investments in proven nonprofits tackling poverty — a near-perfect structural analog to Co-Impact's collaborative model, though US-domestic in focus.
• Tides Foundation: A fiscal sponsorship and philanthropic intermediary that channels pooled donor capital to social-justice and global-equity nonprofits — comparable as a pooled-funding intermediary serving systems-change and gender-equity causes.
• Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation: A venture philanthropy fund that selects and supports a small portfolio of early-stage social entrepreneurs with multi-year unrestricted capital and strategic support — comparable in fund management approach and portfolio size.

Emerging players

• Acumen: A non-profit impact-investing fund that deploys patient capital to early-stage social enterprises serving low-income communities — comparable in deploying pooled capital for systems-level change in the Global South, though uses investment rather than grants.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/coimpactcollab
• Facebookfacebook.com/coimpactcollab
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/collab-impact

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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