Our Approach
At Merton Capital Partners, our mission is to offer tailored direct philanthropic investment vehicles to high-impact philanthropists to help deliver social and environmental solutions at scale.
Identify Systemic Issues in Communities & Scalable Solutions: Merton works in partnership with community leaders and subject matter experts to surface systemic infrastructure challenges and proven solutions that lack funding.
Tap Into Private Sector Partners & Expert Nonprofits to Design a Project: Merton oversees the design and development of social impact projects and manages all project stakeholders.
Connect Donors & Philanthropists to Project: Merton leads the launch of the project’s fund, oversees all fund vehicles and contributions, and manages philanthropic partners and project communications.
Implement the Project, Report on Progress, & Ensure Impact is Achieved: Merton manages the project and all implementation efforts and oversees all private sector and nonprofit partners along with impact evaluators, external consultants, and all philanthropic champions.
Manage Returns for Reinvestment & Ongoing Impact: Merton manages the return on impact and investment for philanthropists and provides opportunities for the philanthropic capital to be reinvested to drive further impact.
Merton Capital Partners invests significant philanthropic capital — on the order of hundreds of million of dollars — with verified corporations into private sector projects to deliver sustainable, measurable, and scalable social impact across key impact domains such as:
