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Addressing systemic challenges and advancing the impact investing ecosystem

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100% mission-aligned portfolio

Established in 2012 by Jim and Krista Sorenson, the Sorenson Impact Foundation is a charitable foundation that was created to advance the flow of capital into innovative, scalable solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. A pioneer in the impact investing space, the Foundation was one of the first, and remains one of the few, foundations in the United States to move 100% of its assets into mission-aligned investments. Through philanthropic, catalytic, and market-rate strategies, the Foundation invests capital into scalable businesses and innovative initiatives that are addressing great social and environmental needs and advancing the impact investing ecosystem. Organizations in the Sorenson Impact Foundation’s portfolio are increasing access to opportunity and quality of life for people in more than 110 countries across five continents.

The Sorenson Impact Foundation deploys capital across a spectrum of tools—including grants, program-related investments, and mission-related investments—to accelerate impact and advance the field of impact investing. With variable risk and return-seeking objectives, these three tools enable the Foundation to seed and support impact innovation across the growth spectrum, while recycling and growing the assets of the foundation to enable continued investment across the impact ecosystem.

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MISSION-RELATED INVESTMENTS

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PROGRAM-RELATED INVESTMENTS

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New Majority Ventures

A VC fund backing underrepresented founders across e-commerce, edtech, fintech, and HR tech. Originally called 1863 Ventures.

An investment firm focused on transforming lower-middle-market businesses into 100% employee owned businesses in the U.S.

Arbutus Medical

A medical device company developing affordable surgical tools for low-resource settings.

A digital content platform offering personalized learning through mobile devices.

A credit-led Neo Bank that supports Africa’s growth through provision of financial services to growing businesses.

A logistics company that delivers same-day supply chain solutions while creating stable employment for last-mile delivery workers across India.

An educational platform offering literacy programs and tutoring for students.

An on-demand staffing platform connecting vetted workers with K-12 schools to fill flexible classified roles including custodians, paraprofessionals, cafeteria staff, and bus drivers.

A platform facilitating financial assistance to employees during unexpected hardships.

A mental health platform providing support and resources for expecting and new mothers.

A global investment firm backing impact fund managers in emerging markets.

A seed fund investing in tech-enabled startups in rural America.

A ride-sharing platform that brings clean transformation to underserved communities by empowering fleet owners with EV financing, charging infrastructure, and parking solutions.

Eat Well Meal Kits

Delivering meal kits with fresh ingredients, recipes, and video tutorials to combat food insecurity, prevent diabetes, and cut healthcare costs.

Advancing smallholder farmers through specialty crops, originally called Croton Industries.

An India-focused impact investment firm backing solution-oriented entrepreneurs building profitable, scalable businesses for low-income communities across financial inclusion, healthcare, agriculture, and livelihood sectors.

A fintech company offering digital payment solutions for unbanked populations in Mexico.

A platform offering emergency response services and ambulance dispatch in Kenya.

Gift of College

An edtech platform enabling individuals, employers, and organizations to contribute to 529 college savings plans and student loan repayment through gift registries, payroll deductions, and employer-sponsored benefits.

A social platform designed to facilitate group interactions and community building. Acquired by Grouper.

Here Now Health

Hear Now Health provides virtual mental healthcare for children and young adults impacted by foster care—reducing costs for states and empowering families.

A subscription-based digital media brand focusing on business journalism with an Impact and ESG lens.

A nonprofit financial services firm facilitating impact investments for donors.

Impala is a software platform that provides nonprofits and funders with data-driven tools to enhance fundraising, grantmaking, and collaboration within the social impact sector.

IMPAQTO Capital

An RBF and debt fund supporting impact companies in the Andean region.

A farmer-first cocoa company that eliminates middlemen to deliver direct payments and profit-sharing to farming communities with a focus on women's livelihoods and regenerative, low-carbon production.

An HR productivity platform that helps employers hire, retain, and boost performance through workforce personalization with a focus on creating inclusive workplaces for employees with disabilities.

iThink VC is a venture capital firm based in Paraguay that invests in purpose-driven entrepreneurs developing technology-based solutions to Latin America's most pressing challenges, with a special focus on Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay.

An e-commerce platform providing women's health and household products in East Africa.

Julius Education

A company that provides labor market intelligence for high-growth industries

A climate-tech company that retrofits legacy radiator-heated buildings with smart controls and electrification technology to cut energy costs and meet carbon mandates.

An online marketplace connecting artisans to global buyers, promoting handmade products.

Liberty & Justice

A fair trade apparel manufacturer and the first certified fair trade factory in West Africa, building local workforce capacity and establishing models for social and environmental justice in African apparel manufacturing.

Navajo Power Home

An enterprise dedicated to providing sustainable energy solutions to Navajo communities.

A healthtech company developing wearable medical devices for monitoring vital signs in newborns.

NESsT Lirio Fund

The NESsT Lirio Fund provides flexible debt capital and technical assistance to social enterprises in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, creating dignified jobs for marginalized communities while preserving over 1.5M hectares of land.

Newday provides authentic portfolios for socially responsible investors, addressing pressing environmental and social issues.

A fintech platform that streamlines rent payments and tenant screening for property managers and low-income and underbanked renters.

A venture capital firm specializing in education technology investments.

An India-focused VC firm backing visionary founders building resilient agri-food systems from deeptech and fintech to consumer brands and value chains across Bharat and the Global South.

A health-tech company that activates local fire and EMS teams to deliver in-home preventative care to underserved rural and small-city patients.

A mobility company designing durable, affordable, and terrain-ready wheelchairs for users across the globe, built for real-world conditions through co-design with wheelchair users themselves.

People's Pension Holding

A financial inclusion company that builds greenfield pension companies across developing countries, making affordable retirement savings accessible to workers in the informal economy.

Proxima Careers trains and supports underserved individuals - via navigators, coaching, and partnerships - to enter healthcare roles like Medical Assistant or CNA, bridging barriers to certification and jobs.

Develops geomechanical energy storage, pumping excess grid electricity to pressurize water underground for long-duration (10-100+ hours), using existing oil/gas infrastructure.

Offers affordable legal tech support for criminal record clearance.

Raven Indigenous Outcomes Fund

An indigenous-led investment firm financing indigenous social enterprises through outcomes-based finance contracts.

Recyclops is a technology-driven start up that innovates solutions for sustainability, starting with recycling.

Redemption Bank

Redemption Bank, formerly Holladay Bank & Trust in Utah, is the first Black-owned bank in the Rockies.

Ruthless for Good

A venture capital firm investing in mission-driven entrepreneurs across edtech, future-of-work, and access innovation startups.

Salkantay Ventures

A venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups in Latin America.

A sanitation partner for African secondary cities providing waste to value solutions.

An Indian healthtech company delivering affordable primary healthcare to low-income communities through mobile clinics and a telehealth marketplace, serving rural and peri-urban populations by conventional health infrastructure.

A U.S. impact finance organization that mobilizes public and private capital through innovative financing structures to expand opportunity in workforce development, education, health, and housing for underserved communities.

A digital health platform enabling patients with opioid use disorder to receive supervised methadone treatment from home, expanding access to addiction care beyond traditional clinic settings.

Stony Creek Colors

Traceable, 100% plant-based dyes to replace synthetic colorants in fashion supply chains. Exited 2024.

An edtech company equipping primary schools across Pakistan with a comprehensive learning management system, combining curated curriculum, engaging content, and world-class teacher training to improve student outcomes.

A fund investing in medical technology companies addressing health disparities.

A global healthtech company combining clinical intelligence and mobile technology to decentralize primary healthcare delivery, helping frontline workers in low-resource settings accurately assess and manage patient health.

An AI-powered platform that helps low-income families access government benefits like health insurance, food assistance, and utility support through a simple phone-based voice interface available in over 70 languages.

Totem

A banking platform designed by and for indigenous people, breaking down systemic barriers to financial services. Exited 2024.

UC Impower is an early-growth stage impact equity fund in India investing in entrepreneurs developing innovative companies in financial services (like MSME lending) and climate solutions

Unitus Ventures

An Indian-focused impact investment firm providing seed funding and hands-on support to early-stage companies improving economic opportunities across healthcare, education, and financial inclusion for low-income populations.

University Venture Fund II

A student-run venture fund at the Sorenson Impact Institute giving students hands-on experience evaluating and investing in early-stage impact driven companies.

Vertical Harvest

An urban farming company operating vertical greenhouses to grow fresh produce year-round.

Providing access to affordable medical equipment in underserved markets.

VilCap Investments

An investment firm supporting early-stage social enterprises globally.

Waste Ventures works with informal waste pickers and bulk waste generators to create inclusive, financially viable, and environmentally sustainable waste management models.

Wayfinder is an ed-tech platform (K-12) designed to promote social-emotional learning for students.

A community health worker powered primary care company delivering integrated clinical and social care to Latino and hart-to-reach communities through culturally rooted, boots-on-the-ground outreach.

Exits (Historical)

An investment fund that provides debt financing to early and growth-stage ventures in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on financial inclusion, sustainable agriculture, and renewable energy.

Sparrow

A U.S. wireless carrier that donates a smartphone or service plan to someone in digital poverty for every new customer, with a focus on unhoused individuals, foster youth, and refugee families.

An e-commerce platform that brings retail access to rural and peri-urban communities across Kenya and Uganda through a network of 40,000+ local agents, the majority of whom are women earning increased income as last-mile delivery entrepreneurs. Exited in 2022.

EARACCESS

Provided affordable hearing loss solutions in developing countries. Exited in 2025.

Financial literacy and business education for emerging market entrepreneurs.

eMoneyPool

An online platform for traditional savings groups.

Eneza Education delivered SMS-based educational quizzes and revision tools for primary school students in rural Kenya. In late 2024, the company merged with Pakistan's Knowledge Platform to blend African SMS learning with Asian gamified content.

Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund

An impact-first fund investing in early-stage social enterprises that improve livelihoods and expand access to basic products and services for people living in poverty.

Graduation Alliance

Empowers educators, government agencies, and community leaders to provide flexible pathways to high school graduation, offering support services to help students succeed. Exited to KKR in 2020.

InReturn Strategies

Market data for innovative companies aiming to connect their products, services, and jobs to the disability community and their networks.

Instill Education

An educational institution offering teacher training programs across Africa.

A digital platform that helps low-income individuals securely store and share vital documents, enabling social service organizations to connect clients to benefits and services more efficiently and at scale.

A financial services firm offering loans to small businesses in India. Exited in 2025.

Maycomb Capital

An investment firm providing flexible capital solutions for social impact initiatives.

A technology-driven, human-approved solution to help organizations structure, scale, and sustain their mentorship programs.

Ojay Greene

Agronomic advisory services, market linkage, and reseller services to smallholder farmers via a mobile platform to improve product quality and increase their competitive edge in urban markets.

Rimidi Diabetes

A healthtech platform focused on managing chronic diseases through data analytics. Acquired by Health Recovery Solutions in 2026.

Salt Lake County Pay for Success

Salt Lake County's Pay for Success (PFS) initiative aimed to address homelessness and criminal justice reform by using private funding to support social service programs.

An Indian solary energy company selling pay-as-you-go solar home systems to energy-poor households and rural micro-enterprises. Exited in 2018.

Provided blockchain-enabled traceability software for agriculture supply chains. It tracks commodities like coffee, cocoa, and spices from farm to fork, ensuring sustainability, compliance, and fair trade for enterprises and smallholders. Exited in 2025.

WiseBanyon

Robo-advisor offering free automated investment management, financial planning, and custom ETF portfolios with no minimums or AUM fees. Acquired by Axos Financial in 2019 and rebranded as Axos Invest.

Worldhaus Construction

Affordable, quality homes for low-income populations in India. Exited in 2022.

B2B marketplace that is digitizing commerce for 100M African retailers.

GRANT PARTNERS

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A media and storytelling initiative that documents and shares evidence-based solutions to social and economic problems.

A venture development organization that invests in and supports early-stage, impact-driven startups tackling issues like health, education, and financial access.

A national policy and field-building organization that promotes impact investing as a tool for addressing social, economic, and environmental challenges.

A network of families and family offices that share knowledge and resources to help members make more effective impact investments.

A convening and events organization that brings together investors, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits to advance the impact investing and social enterprise ecosystem.

A membership organization that builds infrastructure, standards, and research to grow and professionalize the global impact investing industry.

A global business and financial news organization that reports on markets, economics, and trends in sustainable and impact investing.

A University of Utah-based impact investing center that conducts research and advisory work in the field, and also runs a student program where interns and fellows source and present startups to an investment committee.

A membership network for foundations that helps members deploy mission-related and impact investments alongside their grantmaking.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jim Sorenson

FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN

MANAGING DIRECTOR

JENNY ROMNEY

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

PAUL LUDLOW

CFO

Senior Associate

MEREDITH SHIELDS

Brent Andrewsen

Mark Ludwig

Eric Sorenson

Krista Sorenson

Luke Sorenson

1.7B

lives affected

1.8M

jobs created or supported

53%

of companies we fund are led or founded by females or people of color

407M

metric tons of carbon avoided

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OUR MISSION

Our mission is to align all of our assets with our values and impact missions. Since doing so, our portfolio performance has beat our benchmark by a wider margin than ever before. Our mission-aligned portfolio allocation has also helped us succeed when others have been negatively affected by industry failures. Most importantly, though, our investments do more than earn money—they lower carbon emissions, support diversity and inclusion efforts, accelerate education and healthcare access solutions, and build affordable housing along with so much more.