FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC

FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC

Focusing Philanthropy Inc is an institutional philanthropic investor headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with $6 million in assets under management. The organization applies an investment-style model to identify, evaluate, and fund high-impact, scalable nonprofit programs worldwide, having contributed over $226 million to date while charging no fees to donors or recipients. Its strategy centers on addressing root causes of human need, avoiding duplication, and building a diverse but selective portfolio of interventions. Focusing Philanthropy researches each focus area, consults experts across its network, and then identifies the points of intervention where private philanthropists can achieve the greatest impact. It selects implementing partners only after a need is confirmed, requiring proven life-changing results, demonstrated institutional capacity to scale, and a commitment to reporting on real outcomes. The firm does not support organizations whose primary missions involve proselytizing or public policy advocacy. Portfolio focus areas include youth, women and girls, health, education, and economic opportunity, with program partners such as One Acre Fund for subsistence farmers and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for foster youth. For each partner, Focusing Philanthropy develops tailored giving opportunities with agreed priorities, budgets, implementation timetables, performance metrics, and reporting plans to deliver higher-confidence, higher-impact giving.