Directory of Regenerative Funding Organizations
Directory
Source: https://islands-of-coherence.com/map-list
Augmented by Michel Bauwens, via DeepSeek:
Capital Institute
Full URL: https://capitalinstitute.org
Short Description: A non-partisan collaborative think tank and learning lab founded by John Fullerton in 2010. It works to reimagine economics and finance in alignment with living systems, promoting regenerative economics through education and research.
Based on John Fullerton's eight principles of regenerative economics.
RSF Social Finance
Full URL: https://rsfsocialfinance.org
Short Description: A San Francisco-based nonprofit financial services organization founded in 1984. It is dedicated to "changing finance and financing change," channeling over $1 billion into businesses and nonprofits focused on healthier food systems, climate solutions, and community impact.
Kalliopeia Foundation
Full URL: https://kalliopeia.org
Short Description: An independent private operating foundation that engages in grantmaking, education, and storytelling at the intersection of ecology, culture, and spirituality. Its grants are dedicated to leaders and projects that model cultural and ecological renewal rooted in a reverent connection to the Earth.
Fetzer Institute
Full URL: https://fetzer.org
Short Description: An organization with a mission to help build the spiritual foundation for a loving world. It invests in the inner lives of leaders and organizations, believing that a sacred worldview is necessary for societal transformation.
Candide Group
Full URL: https://candidegroup.com
Short Description: An impact investment advisory firm that supports families, foundations, and other investors who want to direct their money to social justice-focused companies and funds. It aims to build a regenerative economy rooted in ecological restoration and equitable partnerships.
Beneficial State Bank
Full URL: https://beneficialstatebank.com
Short Description: A state-chartered, federally insured bank founded to demonstrate a more viable, equitable, and sustainable model for banking. As a certified B Corp and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), its equity is majority-owned by the nonprofit Beneficial State Foundation.
Zebras Unite
Full URL: https://zebrasunite.coop
Short Description: A founder-created and founder-led movement, cooperative, and fund creating a more ethical and inclusive startup culture. It provides the capital, culture, and community for "Zebra" founders, who build for-profit companies with purpose.
Purpose Foundation
Full URL: https://purpose-economy.org
Short Description: An organization that advises and supports family offices in impact investing. It is part of a broader ecosystem working on new economic models, including steward-ownership, to create a more purpose-driven economy.
Threshold Foundation
Full URL: https://thresholdfoundation.org
Short Description: A multi-generational, membership-based organization founded in 1981. It makes grants for the environment, Middle East peace, election reform, racial justice, and documentary film, acting as a catalyst for social and environmental change.
New Economy Coalition
Full URL: https://neweconomy.net
Short Description: A member-led network of over 200 organizations working to build a solidarity economy. It uproots extractive and colonial systems while organizing for food, housing, and ecological justice rooted in self-determination.
Democracy Collaborative
Full URL: https://democracycollaborative.org
Short Description: A U.S.-based think-do tank working to build community wealth and a democratic economy. It functions as a research and development lab, creating models and building networks to create a next system beyond capitalism.
Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll)
Full URL: https://weall.org
Short Description: A global collaboration of changemakers working to transform the economic system. It promotes the transition to an economy designed to serve people and the planet, delivering human and ecological wellbeing.
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Full URL: https://wpfund.org
Short Description: A fund that supported the realization of human rights and social and economic justice. After 25 years of grantmaking, its Board of Trustees decided in August 2024 to wind down the foundation, ceasing all operations and grantmaking by or before the end of 2028.
Sunsetting by 2028; removes roughly $200M+/year of slow relational grantmaking.