CataCap facilitates the transformation of philanthropic capital, such as Donor-Advised Fund grants, into impact investments in mission-driven ventures. The platform aggregates donor contributions to enable participation in larger-scale investments focused on themes like climate solutions and women-led companies. This process allows donors to maximize social returns while maintaining control over capital deployment and potential recycling of funds.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional philanthropy often lacks the ability to directly invest in early-stage companies and funds addressing critical environmental and social challenges. Donors seeking to maximize their impact are limited by the lack of accessible platforms that facilitate direct investment and track financial and social returns.
Solution
CataCap is an online platform that enables foundations, donor-advised funds, and individual donors to directly invest in changemakers and funds focused on solving environmental and social problems. The platform aggregates donations, allowing users to invest in areas such as climate solutions, racial equity, and poverty alleviation. CataCap provides a mechanism for donors to track investment returns and reinvest proceeds into new opportunities or grant them out to 501(c)(3) nonprofits or other donor-advised funds. By pooling funds, CataCap overcomes investment minimums, enabling donors of all sizes to participate in impactful investments.
Target Audience
CataCap targets foundations, donor-advised funds, and individual donors interested in making direct impact investments in environmental and social causes.
Features
- Donor-advised fund that allows donors to make tax-deductible donations and allocate funds to various impact investments.
- Aggregation of funds to meet investment minimums for various social and environmental initiatives.
- A curated list of investment funds and companies across climate solutions, racial equity, gender equality, and poverty alleviation.
- Impact investment groups that pool capital from foundations, donor-advised funds, and individual giving.
- Tools for donors to track investment performance and returns within their CataCap donor account.
- Options to reinvest returns into new opportunities or grant them out to other nonprofits or donor-advised funds.
- The platform charges a 1.25% annual fee, with four years paid upfront, on funds donated to CataCap donor accounts.