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Merton Capital Partners

Unlocking the power and potential of philanthropy

with Philanthropic Private Equity.


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WHAT WE DO

Merton Capital Partners uses philanthropy to leverage private sector scalability, delivering social and environmental outcomes for philanthropists and local communities. We lead philanthropic private equity investments for philanthropists capable of deploying significant capital, achieving sustainable, measurable impact, and returning funds over time.

WHO WE ARE

Merton Capital Partners is a US-based investment firm founded by alumni of large private equity firms (Advent International, KKR and TPG) looking to deploy larger funds for good. We help philanthropists address social and environmental challenges by investing alongside large private sector companies—in partnership with expert, local nonprofits and local governments—to accelerate measurable impact at scale. Our vision is a world where untapped philanthropic capital is maximized and returned over time, and where philanthropists have the option to reinvest it into further projects to attain even more scale. 

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WHY WE DO IT

Our social and climate challenges are at a crisis point. Yet, trillions of philanthropic capital sit on the sidelines, never reaching intended beneficiaries or realizing its full potential. Merton Capital Partners works to invest significant philanthropic capital into private sector projects to deliver sustainable impact in areas such as affordable housing, clean energy, and ocean health.


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We help philanthropists

by designing tailored, issue-focused investment opportunities, designed to scale solutions, bolster infrastructure, and deliver outcomes for communities.


The breadth and immediacy of the challenges facing us today require an approach that fully utilizes the largest private companies as a vector c impact. Philanthropic private equity can significantly deliver social and environmental outcomes for philanthropists and communities, as private companies can absorb and deploy capital at scale. Merton Capital Partners' investment projects span five focus areas: affordable housing, broadband access, clean water infrastructure, clean energy, and ocean health through land-based solutions like wastewater upgrades.


Our Story

Merton Capital Partners was founded in 2015 by experienced private equity and nonprofit professionals who believed that there was a better way to fund and solve society’s most pressing problems. They realized that although wealthy individuals were pledging to give much of their fortunes away, there was a bottleneck between that intention and pathways to enable scaled impact for communities in need.  


Over the last two years, Merton has designed a new impact financing model that allows for the deployment of large-scale philanthropic capital in partnership with private sector leaders. These leaders in turn implement social impact projects alongside local nonprofits, allowing Merton clients to dramatically accelerate the impact of their philanthropy in the issue areas they care about most. With an ambition to unlock at least one trillion dollars sitting on the sidelines in the

assets of these wealthy individuals, and in their private foundations and donor-advised funds (DAFs), Merton works closely with these individuals, their families, and foundations to design projects that deploy untapped philanthropic capital. These projects deliver scalable social impact in partnership with the private sector and expert nonprofits and return capital back to donors that can be reinvested for further impact. 

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Our Team

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Merton Capital Partners brings together an exceptional team with over $50B in assets under management throughout their careers. Leveraging their diverse experience and expertise, Merton Capital Partners offers clients a unique, scale-driven approach to philanthropy that translates into measurable positive change. 


OUR TEAM


Merton Capital Partners contributes to the thought-leadership of the Merton Philanthropy Institute.


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Careers

Help unlock the power and potential of philanthropy at Merton Capital Partners

Interested in joining the Merton Capital Partners Team? Send us an email — we’re always looking for people who share our mission to form innovative partnerships to address today’s pressing social and environmental challenges.

 


 
 

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