Global Impact

Global Impact

Global Impact serves as a nonprofit organization and fundraising platform, working with corporations and government agencies to channel philanthropic donations. The firm was founded in Chicago in 1959 as an entity dedicated to expanding charitable giving, later relocating its primary headquarters to New York. Its founding dates to the structure of the Combined Federal Campaign, and it has since evolved into an independent fiscal sponsor and fund administrator. Wealth origin is not applicable — this is a nonprofit, not a family office or for-profit investment firm. The firm structures donor-advised funds, employee giving programs, and disaster relief funds for clients including Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies. It operates across 84 countries and receives contributions from over 700 workplace giving campaigns. The platform has disbursed over $2 billion in grants since inception (public record). Asset classes are not applicable; capital is deployed to charitable organizations rather than for-profit investments. Global Impact maintains a distributed workforce across seven offices in the US and Europe. Leadership structure and team size are not publicly detailed on official channels. The firm also provides fiscal sponsorship for nonprofit initiatives in the impact investing space, though no specific recent operational dates were available in public sources. As a nonprofit intermediary rather than a family office, Global Impact's structural differentiator is its role as a fiscal sponsor and platform for pooled charitable capital. Unlike a for-profit manager, it does not seek direct investment returns — it facilitates grantmaking from donor-advised funds and corporate programs to vetted charities worldwide. The firm's partnership with government and corporate clients on workplace giving creates a repeatable model for capital movement from earners to recipients.