For institutional funders
Fund more causes from the same corpus — your grantees already generate revenue you’re not tapping.
$100K, modelled at an 85% recycle rate — deliberately conservative: microfinance repayment runs ~96% at $2B+ scale (Kiva), where the same dollar compounds to ~25×.
The problem
Your corpus shrinks with each gift. Impact is one-and-done, and next year you start over.
A traditional grant
Consumed in a single pass. Nothing comes back.
How it works
You fund it; the recipient delivers and repays from revenue; in default it just stays a grant. The same capital recycles to the next — and the pool grows.
The key thing
Repayment is voluntary, from the recipient’s revenue. No debt, no security — and in default it simply stays a grant.
A loan
✗ Debt on your books
✗ Security required
✗ Must repay, or else
A recoverable grant
✓ No debt
✓ No security
✓ Repay only when able
What you get
The same corpus funds more causes, more often — without new fundraising. A recoverable grant comes back as the recipient delivers.
Same $100K at a conservative 85% recycle rate. Microfinance runs ~96% (Kiva, $2B+) — which compounds to ~25×.
Live — two pilots
NABU is recycling against a signed Google contract; the Australian pilot routes through the Australian Communities Foundation. Seven months in, already earning.
How it plugs in
Donations sit in a charity trust; Elevate operates and recycles. For foundations and PAFs, the grant can even discharge your distribution requirement.
Donors / PAFs
give (tax-deductible)
ACF Charity Trust
donation vehicle
Elevate Foundation
holds & recycles the pool · 🔒 mission-locked
Separate company
Elevate Management Co
platform & recovery service · paid a fee · minority-equity on-ramp
Not owned under the Foundation — it serves the Foundation at arm’s length.
We’ll set up a pilot and handle the agreements, compliance, and recovery.