Citi Foundation

Citi Foundation, established in 2020, is a New York-based venture capital firm that invests in U.S.-based private sector companies addressing societal challenges. Through its $500 million Impact Fund, it makes equity investments, typically co-investing with other venture capital firms, in companies demonstrating proof of concept and potential for scale. The Foundation focuses on four verticals: the future of work, climate resilience, financial inclusion, and social infrastructure. It prioritizes investing in businesses led or owned by women and minorities, aiming to bridge gender and race gaps in the VC-funded startup world. Additionally, it has committed $50 million to the Black Entrepreneurs Investment Initiative, supporting tech-enabled ventures led by black founders to reduce the racial wealth gap.

Jeff Meyers

Director

Robin Volk

Senior Vice President

Past deals in Grant

Micro Rainbow International Foundation

Grant in 2024
Micro Rainbow International Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission. Its mission is to create a society in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons may reach their full potential and have equal access to employment, training, education, financial services, healthcare, housing, places of worship, and public spaces and services.

The Community Builders

Grant in 2024
The Community Builders is a non-profit organization that owns and manages high-quality apartments. The Community Builders' investments in housing, commercial, and community programs help make neighborhoods work for people of all income levels. The Community Builders creates housing for families and seniors, as well as invests in local businesses and public amenities that help to strengthen neighborhoods. They bring diverse experience and comprehensive expertise to each community where they work in collaboration with partners.

International Organization for Migration

Grant in 2024
Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. With 162 member states, a further 9 states holding observer status and offices in over 100 countries, IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

St. Michael's Hospital Foundation

Grant in 2024
St. Michael's Hospital Foundation is a global powerhouse in research and patient care.

SAJIDA Foundation

Grant in 2024
SAJIDA Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, dedicated to enhancing the health, happiness, and dignity of underprivileged communities. Founded in 1993, the organization prioritizes corporate philanthropy and holds a significant stake in Renata Ltd, a leading pharmaceutical company. SAJIDA Foundation's mission encompasses empowering communities, fostering entrepreneurship, and promoting social equity through a variety of development programs. Its initiatives focus on poverty alleviation, community healthcare, and addressing climate change, impacting over 6 million individuals across the country. The foundation also operates one of Bangladesh's largest financial service networks and has established several specialized healthcare enterprises, reinforcing its commitment to creating sustainable social change.

YMCA of Greater New York

Grant in 2024
YMCA of Greater New York is a community service organization which promotes positive values through its programs.

FEANTSA

Grant in 2024
FEANTSA is the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless. It brings together non-profit services that support homeless people in Europe. FEANTSA is supported by the European Commission.

Habitat for Humanity Trinidad and Tobago

Grant in 2024
Habitat for Humanity Trinidad and Tobago is a nonprofit organization that advocates and works for the right to decent housing and sustainable improvement of the community habitat.

PathFinders

Grant in 2024
PathFinders is a charitable organization that helps vulnerable infants born to migrant mothers.

Railway Children

Grant in 2024
Railway Children is a charitable organization dedicated to protecting homeless and vulnerable children across various regions, including India, Africa, and the UK. The organization provides essential support to these children and their families, aiming to improve their living conditions and safeguard their well-being. Through its initiatives, Railway Children addresses the challenges faced by children living on the streets, offering them resources and services designed to enhance their safety and opportunities for a better future. The organization's efforts are particularly focused on creating lasting change in the lives of those it serves.

Epic Collective

Grant in 2024
EPIC is an award-winning social enterprise that empowers ordinary people to live extraordinary lives focused on making a positive difference in their communities.

Undugu Society of Kenya

Grant in 2024
Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) is a National child centered community development organization.

Polish Center for International Aid

Grant in 2024
The Polish Centre for International Aid (PCPM) is a non-governmental organization. Its mission is to provide humanitarian, development, and medical support while maintaining to the core values of impartiality, neutrality, and independence.

Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation

Grant in 2024
Blue Dragon Children's Foundation is a charity that helps street kids and rescues victims from slavery and human trafficking in Vietnam.

The Fuller Center for Housing

Grant in 2024
The Fuller Center for Housing is a non-profit organization that provides shelters to homeless people worldwide.

Mission Action

Grant in 2024
Mission Action is a non-profit organization that provides community services.

The Nubian Vault Association (AVN)

Grant in 2024
Association La Voute Nubienne (AVN) promotes the development of a self-sustaining market in NV construction, by facilitating the recruitment, on-site training, and support of village masons in several West African countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Benin...). AVN's local teams and extension agents pump-prime and enable the growth of indigenous markets in Nubian Vault construction, providing employment opportunities, access to decent housing, and the growth of local economic circuits.

Corazón Urbano

Grant in 2024
Corazón Urbano is a non-profit, non-political civil association uses galvanized steel panels to rebuild roofs for low-income families.

DignityMoves

Grant in 2024
DignityMoves is a non-profit organization that reimagine scalable solutions to homelessness. DignityMoves works to end unsheltered homelessness in communities by building Interim Supportive Housing as a rapid, cost-effective, and thus, scalable solution. It was founded in 2020 and is located in All of California, California.

Habitat Association

Grant in 2024
Habitat Association (Habitat) is a non-governmental organization that develops initiatives that focus on social capacity building and social impact, based on strong relationships with the goal of achieving sustainable development in a digitalizing world.

Miami Homes For All

Grant in 2024
Miami Homes For All is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the housing environment in Miami-Dade County by producing more affordable homes, preserving what they already have, and increasing underprivileged residents access to that housing.

Human Initiative

Grant in 2024
Human Initiative implements programs for living conditions and education. It engages in community projects and partnerships. The sectors served include education, health, and community development.

Progetto Arca

Grant in 2024
Progetto Arca is a non-profit social utility organization (ONLUS) that provides stable housing and access to supportive services, including financial education and job placement, for low-income individuals and households.

Centre for Homelessness Impact

Grant in 2024
Centre for Homelessness Impact provides evidence and data tools that make homelessness data and evidence easier to track, implement and search. Their tools for homelessness put evidence at people's fingertips, making the available evidence easier to use. They respond to inquiries by phone and email.

Asociación Realidades

Grant in 2024
Asociación Realidades is establishing a cohabitation model in which homeless people share accommodation and resources while receiving mental health care and other services to promote their autonomy and social involvement.

Depaul Ireland

Grant in 2024
Depaul Ireland is a non-profit organization that provides specialist psychosocial support to individuals experiencing homelessness with complex needs

Eurasia Foundation

Grant in 2024
Eurasia Foundation is a organisation to create innovative solutions to local development challenges.

Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation

Grant in 2024
Gawad Kalinga is building a nation empowered by people with faith and patriotism. It is a nation made up of caring and sharing communities dedicated to eradicate poverty and restore human dignity.

Help USA

Grant in 2024
HELP USA’s work is to build empowered communities where everyone has a place to call home.

Cooperación Comunitaria

Grant in 2024
Cooperación Comunitaria is a non-governmental organization that promotes the production and social management of rural habitats.

Los Angeles LGBT Center

Grant in 2024
Los Angeles LGBT Center is a Volunteer youth professional mentorship.

The Doe Fund

Grant in 2024
The Doe Fund operates five enterprises: sanitation, pest control, mail services, catering, recycling

U-turn Homeless Ministries

Grant in 2024
U-turn Homeless Ministries is an innovative skills-based program to overcome homelessness created by a multidisciplinary team of occupational therapists, social workers, and homeless people.

Habitat for Humanity Uganda

Grant in 2024
Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization based that offers training, support, and capacity building.

Caritas

Grant in 2024
Caritas is a non-profit organization that helps elderly and sick people, people with disabilities, addictions, mental disabilities.

N Street Village

Grant in 2024
Provides services for homeless women including a day center, night shelter, wellness center, addiction recovery programs

Première Urgence Internationale

Grant in 2024
Première Urgence Internationale is an international non-profit, apolitical and secular NGO. It helps civilian victims, marginalized or excluded by the effects of wars, natural disasters and situations of economic collapse.

Romodrom

Grant in 2024
Romodrom is a voluntary non-governmental, non-profit organization to aid people. It provides social services and housing solutions, such as assistance with rental applications to reduce homelessness and enhance social cohesion.

Bangkok Community Help Foundation

Grant in 2024
The Bangkok Community Help Foundation is a community initiative that stands up for the vulnerable individuals in society by offering direct help and support, providing a lifeline to the people. It is founded at the peak of the COVID-19 to help vulnerable populations in Thailand.

Jood

Grant in 2024
Jood is an Non Government association offers poor destitute of the city streets, clothes, blankets, and medicines. It pays attention, listens and mobilizes to support these homeless people in their awareness of a chance to have a better future.

TECHO-U.S

Grant in 2024
TECHO is a youth led non-profit organization present in 19 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. Through the joint work of families living in extreme poverty with youth volunteers, TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in slums. With the implementation of an intervention model, which is focused on community development, TECHO seeks to build a fair and poverty free society, where everyone has the opportunities needed to develop their capacities and fully exercise their rights. TECHO is present in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Fundação Tide Setubal

Grant in 2024
The Tide Setubal Foundation is a non-governmental, of family origin organization that works with the mission of encourage initiatives that promote social justice.

PRAKSIS

Grant in 2024
PRAKSIS is an independent Civil Society Organization. Its mission is the planning and implementation of projects of a development, humanitarian, and medical nature.

Habitat for Humanity Korea

Grant in 2024
Habitat for Humanity South Korea operates as a non-profit public construction service association. It empowers low-income children and families through housing repairs, psychological support, and financial literacy, fostering community stability.

Global Sisters

Grant in 2024
Global Sisters is a non-profit organization that helps make business possible for women, enabling them to be financially resilient. They support women from the earliest stages of business. They provide long-term, end-to-end support to grow their business ideas.

Asian

Grant in 2024
Asian is a nonprofit organization that empowers people by fostering chances for housing, financial education, and business growth.

Rubicon Programs

Grant in 2024
Rubicon Programs is a non-profit organization that offers workforce development, asset management, income generation, and legal services.

1863 Ventures

Grant in 2024
1863 Ventures is a business development program established in 2016 and based in Washington, D.C. The organization focuses on supporting new majority entrepreneurs by providing a range of programs that facilitate their growth from high potential to high growth. It aims to bridge the gap between entrepreneurship and equity, offering tailored support for various stages of business development, including early-stage and growth-stage ventures. 1863 Ventures primarily targets investments in sectors such as construction, food and beverages, retail, healthcare, software, e-commerce, and edtech, with a focus on serving communities in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

ICA.fund

Grant in 2024
ICA Fund Good Jobs, Inc. is an accelerator and corporate investment firm based in Oakland, California, focusing on growth capital investments in small businesses. Established in 1996, the firm specializes in taking equity stakes of 1% and running a 16-week business accelerator program. ICA prefers to invest in for-profit companies within the manufacturing, food and beverage, consumer packaged goods, retail, and service sectors, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. Investment amounts typically range from $0.025 million to $1 million, targeting companies with a minimum revenue of $0.1 million. Investments may be structured as equity or various forms of debt, including senior, subordinated, and convertible debt.

Pacific Asian Consortium In Employment

Grant in 2024
PACE specializes in developing economic solutions to address employment, education, housing, business development, and environmental issues.

Pacific Community Ventures

Grant in 2024
Pacific Community Ventures, LLC is a nonprofit community development financial institution based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on investing in small, consumer-facing businesses aimed at creating quality jobs for low-to-moderate income workers. Founded in 1999, the organization specializes in providing growth equity to mid-venture and late-venture companies primarily located in California. Its investment strategy targets small, high-growth companies in various sectors, including food products, health and wellness, retail, and environmentally friendly products. Pacific Community Ventures typically invests between $1 million and $4 million in companies with revenues ranging from $3 million to $30 million. The firm emphasizes hands-on involvement, offering strategic and operational guidance to enhance business processes and support sustainable growth. Its mission is to foster thriving communities by ensuring that markets serve social good while delivering robust financial returns for employees and owners.

Opportunity Junction

Grant in 2024
Staffing Services -- we provide temporary staffing, project teams, and direct hire services.

The Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation

Grant in 2024
We are committed in the involvement of business, and growth of our community. We constantly gauge the needs of our Hispanic business community and create opportunities to meet those needs. The manner in which together we engage our community is through a variety of seminars, workshops and community classes.

MyPath

Grant in 2024
MyPath encourages upward mobility and helps individuals from low-income families to transform income for financial and personal growth.

Mission Asset Fund

Grant in 2024
Mission Asset Fund believes in creating pathways out of the financial shadows. Every day they help house cleaners and restaurant owners across the U.S. save money with better credit and less debt. They do it because 50 million Americans are living in the shadows where predatory lenders lurk. From their signature social loans to their groundbreaking research, they are constantly innovating and advocating for effective, culturally relevant ways to improve economic mobility. They are transforming the financial services sector so that all hardworking families have a shot at achieving their dreams.

Urban League of Broward County

Grant in 2024
The Urban League of Broward County is a community-based organization dedicated to advancing social and economic equality for African Americans. It offers a range of services that include youth development programs, job training and placement, and initiatives aimed at mobilizing the community. By focusing on empowering individuals and fostering opportunities, the organization plays a crucial role in addressing the challenges faced by marginalized groups within the region. Through its various programs, the Urban League strives to enhance the quality of life for residents and promote equity in economic and social spheres.

Northern California Land Trust

Grant in 2024
Northern California Land Trust is an organization that offers housing and facilities for low-income residents and community benefits.

Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre

Grant in 2023
Qajuqturvik Community strives to strengthen health, belonging, and food sovereignty in Iqaluit.

Opportunity Finance Network

Grant in 2023
Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) is a Philadelphia-based economic development agency founded in 1986. It operates as a national network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs) dedicated to investing in opportunities that uplift low-income, low-wealth, and disadvantaged communities throughout the United States. OFN focuses on addressing the financial needs of individuals and businesses that mainstream financial institutions often overlook. In addition to its investment activities, the agency offers strategic consulting services aimed at enhancing industry capacity, supporting government agencies, and assisting socially responsible investors such as banks and foundations. The management team oversees the agency's operations and assets, ensuring alignment with its mission to foster financial, social, and political justice.

Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation

Grant in 2022
Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation is a non-profit organization. They provide business loans and financial services for businesses. Their economic resources to the community include access to capital, business planning, training, and development. They also provide financial advocacy for the communities.

Urban Growers Collective

Grant in 2021
Urban Growers Collective is a non-profit farm that is working to build a more just and equitable local food system. They aim to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in communities of color. They provide hands-on job training and create economic opportunity for youth, farmers, and men.

Proviso Leyden Council for Community Action

Grant in 2021
Proviso Leyden Council for Community Action advocates for social change by promoting community development and empowering people through education, training and supportive services.

Elevate

Grant in 2021
Elevate is a nonprofit system that creates clean heat, power, and water in their homes and communities. They create the benefits and services of the clean energy economy, deliver quality programs and services, and improve the quality of life for homeowners, renters, and building owners.

Working Credit NFP

Grant in 2021
Working Credit NFP is a non-profit organization that helps people with financial needs to overcome obstacles. Through credit building, counseling, and access to the products they need to thrive financially, they intervened against structural racism.

Balloon Ventures

Grant in 2019
Balloon Ventures bundles loans of ~$25,000 with tech-enabled business support to de-risk and profitably lend to SMEs in Kenya and Uganda. The approach is unlocking a $150bn segment in sub-Saharan Africa who are currently under-served by all existing financial institutions. Balloon has now made $10m+ loans and is profitable and scaling fast.

NPower

Grant in 2018
NPower is a national nonprofit organization that launches digital careers for military veterans and young adults from underserved communities. The company empowers under-represented talent to pursue tech futures by teaching the digital and professional skills demanded by the marketplace, and engaging businesses, volunteers, and nonprofits in the long term success of its students.

Cherehani Africa

Grant in 2017
Cherehani Africa is a financial platform focused on empowering women micro-entrepreneurs in rural and underserved areas by providing access to credit and personalized financial literacy resources. The company's innovative approach combines technology with a human touch, enabling it to deploy capital with enhanced efficiency. Cherehani leverages existing micro-savings group structures to offer various financial products, including asset financing for business tools and loans for agriculture, water, sanitation, and hygiene. Additionally, Cherehani Africa prioritizes financial education, delivering market information and training through a proprietary web-based platform complemented by in-person field visits. This comprehensive support system aims to foster the growth of micro-businesses and improve the financial stability of women in these communities.
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