Celebrating Our Grantees’ Impact
We have reached a milestone moment for ICONIQ Impact and our community. As of December 2023, ICONIQ Impact
has mobilized over half a billion dollars in philanthropic capital for more than 200 grantees around the world. They deserve
every penny and so much more. The last few years have been defined in no small part by a rise in complex and urgent challenges.
Climate change has caused an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, leading to unprecedented climate
migration. The youth mental health crisis has hit an all-time high, with one in four young adults around the world experiencing
depression or anxiety. Violent conflict has continued to take a brutal toll on civilians, with 339 million people now in need of
humanitarian assistance. But amid this darkness, there is a bright spot—organizations and individuals all over the world are
stepping up in new ways to meet this moment.
Celebrating Our Grantees’ Impact
We have reached a milestone moment for ICONIQ Impact and our community. As of December 2023, ICONIQ Impact
has mobilized over half a billion dollars in philanthropic capital for more than 200 grantees around the world. They deserve
every penny and so much more. The last few years have been defined in no small part by a rise in complex and urgent challenges.
Climate change has caused an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, leading to unprecedented climate
migration. The youth mental health crisis has hit an all-time high, with one in four young adults around the world experiencing
depression or anxiety. Violent conflict has continued to take a brutal toll on civilians, with 339 million people now in need of
humanitarian assistance. But amid this darkness, there is a bright spot—organizations and individuals all over the world are
stepping up in new ways to meet this moment.
Our Philanthropists
We convene an extraordinary community of families, founders, and organizations
to tackle some of the world’s most complex challenges. Here are a few examples of
the philanthropists in our community:
Our Philanthropists
We convene an extraordinary community of families, founders, and organizations to
tackle some of the world’s most complex challenges. Here are a few examples of the
philanthropists in our community:
Jessica & Andrew Sieja
Philanthropic interests: climate, democracy, community
Xin Liu
Philanthropic interests: education equality and youth development around the world, improving youth mental wellbeing, investing in next generation social change makers, engaging young leaders in developing climate solutions, storytelling and narrative building for youth movements
David Karp & Samantha McManus
Philanthropic interests: New York City, social justice, education, climate change, human rights
Marie & Benoit Dageville
Philanthropic interests: collaborative philanthropy, trust-based philanthropy, human-centered philanthropy, climate justice, social equity, global health
Lukas Walton
Philanthropic interests: healthy oceans, sustainable food and agriculture, clean energy
Chris Larsen & Lyna Lam
Philanthropic interests: Cambodian culture, mental health, rural Khmer schools, refugee support, climate change (CDR, Left/Right climate divide, zero emission fuels, methane, legal support), public safety, city governance, and CSAM
Ashish Motivala & Nilu Motiwala
Philanthropic interests: climate, education, human trafficking
Our Partners
We partner with expert groups that have a specialized, nuanced understanding of
certain subject areas, as well as deep, established roots in their respective sectors.
Here are a few examples of the partners we work with:
Our Partners
We partner with expert groups that have a specialized, nuanced understanding of
certain subject areas, as well as deep, established roots in their respective sectors.
Here are a few examples of the partners we work with:
Our Grantees
We focus our philanthropy on areas where it can be catalytic. This could mean
supporting overlooked and underfunded groups, mobilizing funding for a new
technology or approach that has huge potential but needs support to get off the ground,
or partnering to support hyper-local initiatives. Here are a few of the grantees we support:
Our Grantees
We focus our philanthropy on areas where it can be catalytic. This can look like supporting
overlooked and underfunded groups, funding a new technology or approach that has
huge potential but needs support to get off the ground, or partnering to support hyper-local initiatives.
Co-Labs
Our Co-Labs are collaborative philanthropy funds where donor communities make multi-year grants to a portfolio of nonprofit organizations addressing the most urgent challenges facing the world today. Each Co-Lab enables donors to maximize their efficiency through co-funding while learning from inspiring experts and leaders of impacted communities. [4]
Awards
Our awards enable philanthropists to identify leading nonprofit organizations of all sizes through open, transparent, and rigorously-evaluated challenges that address some of the greatest social issues of our time.
Philanthropic Advisory
Our philanthropic advisory services help philanthropists begin or scale their giving through connections, resources, and one-on-one support.
Philanthropy can be deployed quickly and diligently–we don’t need to sacrifice one for the other.
Speed and diligence aren’t mutually exclusive. Our collaborative model allows us to leverage the knowledge of trusted issue-area experts and impacted communities to help source and vet organizations with rigor. This helps us quickly and efficiently determine grantee effectiveness and scalability. Importantly, we also aim to shift the onus of due diligence onto us and our expert partners, saving grantees from onerous, unnecessary paperwork so they can stay focused on their missions.
Trust-based giving empowers grantees, enabling innovation and allowing for long-term planning.
We know our grantees are the real experts. They have a deep understanding of the challenges they’re working to solve and the communities they serve. That’s why we routinely provide grantees with unrestricted, multi-year grants, simplify the due diligence process, and minimize the reporting burden. For our Co-Labs, we co-create impact reporting frameworks with grantees, trusting them to develop and track the metrics that correctly capture their impact. By developing genuine relationships with our grantees and jointly evaluating impact, we’re able to assess real-world change without undermining their independence.
Philanthropy is more meaningful when community and relationships are at the center.
Our model helps foster this by enabling seasoned philanthropists to shepherd new donors, and new donors to provide a fresh perspective to those who are further along in their giving journeys. Most importantly, it enables philanthropists and grantees to connect as people. When donors listen to grantees’ experiences, learn from their expertise, and engage with their projects, it helps build mutual trust and respect, upending the inherent power imbalances that too often exist in philanthropy.
[1] Global Health includes: Mental Health, Reproductive Health, Health Research & Development, and Global Health & Wellbeing.
[2] The “Other” category includes issue areas like Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WaSH), Gender Equity, Maternal Health, Poverty & Inequality in the U.S., and more.
[3] For illustrative purposes only. The types, level and terms of services actually provided may vary.
[4] ICONIQ Impact serves as a philanthropic advisor to the third party sponsoring the Co-Labs.