Recyclable charitable capital, built well
Elevate.gift is the platform for recoverable charitable capital — where the donor pool retains a claim on principal until a future revenue event, then recycles to fund the next nonprofit. Same dollar, multiple cycles. The structural redesign of how philanthropy moves.
Why recoverable?
Traditional philanthropy: a donor gives $25,000 to a nonprofit. The nonprofit spends it on programs. The community is served. Then the money is gone — out of the donor pool, consumed in a single pass. The donor fundraises again. The cycle repeats.
Recoverable charitable capital is the redesign. The donor pool advances $25,000 under a recoverable agreement. The nonprofit operates the program. When their future revenue event lands — a confirmed grant tranche, a contract milestone, fee income — the principal returns to the pool. The community is still served. But the same $25,000 can fund the next nonprofit, and the next.
Three audiences. One platform.
Apply for working capital advances. Sign up free. Get a recoverable agreement tied to your future revenue event. Pay a 10% admin fee on recoverable grants. We're building this for you first.
Give and watch your gift compound. Every donation enters the recoverable pool. You see exactly which nonprofits your dollar has funded across cycles. Pay only transaction fees — no platform fee.
Community foundations, Public Giving Funds (formerly PuAFs), Private Giving Funds (formerly PAFs), and Community Charity Trusts use Elevate as the operating tech for recoverable deployment. Separate pricing.
Three things we believe
Most philanthropy is bilateral — donor gives, charity spends, money is gone. Elevate is built on the thesis that the same dollar can fund many projects over time, generating cumulative impact across cycles.
Recoverable doesn't mean enforceable. Recovery is voluntary, tied to a future revenue event the recipient already controls. No personal guarantees, no asset claims, no debt instruments. Just a clearer agreement about what happens when the future revenue lands.
The big-foundation, big-PAF infrastructure is plumbing — important, but invisible. The platform serves nonprofits looking for working capital, donors who want their giving to compound, and the people in communities who give regularly. The architecture stays out of their way.
NABU is the first cycle
Our first recoverable working capital advance went to NABU — a nonprofit deploying Read Along educational technology across Sub-Saharan Africa. $25,000 bridge ahead of a confirmed Google Foundation tranche. Recovery on May 31, 2026. Same dollar then funds the next nonprofit.
NABU is the right first proof: pure intellectual property (no equipment), an identifiable revenue event (the Google milestone), education + global development (story-strong), and a real working-capital gap (the deployment happens before the tranche lands). Every detail is traceable.
The thinking lives at IRSA Institute
The methodology behind Elevate is published openly through IRSA — the Institute for Regenerative Systems Architecture. 22 working papers across Circulatory Economics, governance debt, recoverable charitable capital theory, and the Treasury Laws Amendment 2024 submissions. Top 6% of SSRN authors globally, 600+ paper downloads.
IRSA is the research home; Elevate is the operationalisation. The platform implements ideas that have been peer-reviewed and published.
Pick your path
Nonprofit looking for working capital, donor wanting your gift to compound, or foundation deploying recoverably — find the path that fits.