Invest In Our Future

What Invest In Our Future does

Invest In Our Future (IOF) is a US-based philanthropic intermediary launched in early 2023 that pools charitable capital from major foundations and deploys it as grants to organizations working to accelerate clean energy deployment. It is structured as a fiscally sponsored project of RF Catalytic Capital, an affiliate of The Rockefeller Foundation, with a stated partner coalition that includes Breakthrough Energy, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Schusterman Foundation, Zegarff, and Yield Giving.

IOF organizes its grantmaking around four pillars: expediting siting and permitting of utility-scale clean energy projects, expanding the market for commercial-scale clean energy projects, building a high-quality clean energy workforce, and strengthening the organizing and communication capacity of the clean energy deployment field. Its stated thesis is that clean energy technologies are commercially viable and cost-competitive even without federal incentives, but persistent non-technical barriers — permitting friction, risk perception in commercial-scale finance, workforce shortages, and political polarization — continue to suppress deployment.

IOF does not develop or sell technology products and operates with a small staff (1-10). Its go-to-market is community-led: prospective grantees submit an inquiry form, the team responds within 2-4 weeks, and qualified organizations are invited to discovery calls. The organization has positioned itself as a strategy hub coordinating across philanthropy partners and, per its own messaging, is preparing to execute a multi-year strategy through a federal incentive phase-out environment.

Name

Invest In Our Future

Legal name

Invest In Our Future

Website

https://investinourfuture.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Invest In Our Future is a US philanthropic intermediary, fiscally sponsored by RF Catalytic Capital (Rockefeller Foundation), that pools grants from major foundations to fund organizations removing barriers to clean energy deployment.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Philanthropic Grantmaking

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental & Climate Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Charities & Grantmaking Intermediaries (BPAGAKAE), Grantmaking & Philanthropic Funds (Institutional Donors) (BPADAOAB)

Keywords

• Philanthropic grantmaking
• Clean energy deployment
• Workforce development funding
• Nonprofit strategy hub
• Pooled foundation funding

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Philanthropic Grant Making: Invest in Our Future operates as a pooled philanthropic resource providing grant funding to organizations working on clean energy deployment. The organization does not generate revenue from products or services but rather deploys charitable capital to advance clean energy deployment objectives across four strategic focus areas.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Invest in Our Future provides pooled philanthropic resources and grant funding to organizations working to deploy clean energy projects in the United States, operating as a strategy hub that coordinates across multiple foundation partners. Its grantmaking is organized around four strategic focus areas: expediting siting and permitting of utility-scale clean energy projects, expanding the market for commercial-scale clean energy projects, building a high-quality clean energy workforce, and strengthening organizing and communication capacity in the clean energy deployment field.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Clean Energy Deployment Grants

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Breakthrough EnergycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBreakthrough Energy is listed as a partner organization on the About Us page, working alongside other major foundations to support clean energy deployment objectives.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• MacArthur Foundation: MacArthur Foundation is both an IOF funding partner and a broad incumbent funder with a sizable climate/clean energy portfolio. As a peer organization funding many of the same grantees, MacArthur is a strong comparable in clean energy philanthropic strategy.
• The Rockefeller Foundation: IOF's fiscal sponsor and parent via RF Catalytic Capital. The Rockefeller Foundation is a broad incumbent funder with climate/clean energy as one of several major portfolios, giving it overlapping strategy and a structural relationship with IOF's day-to-day operations.
• Bloomberg Philanthropies: Bloomberg Philanthropies is a major US philanthropic vehicle that funds clean energy deployment alongside broader climate, health, and economic initiatives. Its Beyond Carbon initiative operates in the same US deployment-barrier space as IOF, though as part of a much larger portfolio.
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: Hewlett Foundation is an IOF funding partner with a substantial climate and clean energy portfolio. Its deep US climate program and major-funder profile make it a directly comparable peer in the climate-philanthropy ecosystem.

Direct peers

• ClimateWorks Foundation: ClimateWorks Foundation is a major climate-focused philanthropic intermediary that pools and channels grant funding to deploy clean energy and decarbonization strategies globally. Like IOF, it acts as a strategy hub coordinating across grantees in climate/clean energy, making it the closest direct peer in mission and operating model.
• Energy Foundation: Energy Foundation is a pooled philanthropic fund that supports clean energy policy and deployment across the United States and China. Its pooled-funder structure, US focus on siting/permitting and clean energy markets, and strategy-coordination role closely parallel IOF's operating model.
• Climate Imperative Foundation: Climate Imperative Foundation is a pooled philanthropic vehicle that channels major-foundation capital into US-focused clean energy and climate deployment initiatives. Its coalition-of-major-foundations structure and US deployment focus make it a near-direct peer to IOF.

Regional players

• Clean Energy States Alliance: CESA is a US-based coalition that supports state-level clean energy programs and policy, including work on siting/permitting and deployment barriers. While its coalition-driven model differs from IOF's pooled-funder structure, its focus on state-level clean energy deployment makes it a comparable organization in the same field.

Emerging players

• Clean Energy Group: Clean Energy Group is a nonprofit that channels philanthropic and programmatic support into clean energy financing and deployment strategies, particularly for under-resourced communities. Its grantmaking and deployment-focus overlap makes it a meaningful partial peer to IOF.

Others

• US Climate Alliance: US Climate Alliance is a bipartisan coalition of US governors advancing state-level clean energy and climate policy. While not a philanthropic vehicle, it is an ecosystem participant whose work on siting, permitting, and deployment policy directly affects the outcomes IOF's grantees are working toward.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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