Kresge Foundation Social Investment Practice
Kresge's balance-sheet arm, deploying program-related investments and loans, equity, strategic deposits and unfunded guarantees across all seven of the foundation's programme areas — including Health and Human Services, the two most directly aligned with social work. The guarantee instrument is the distinctive one: Kresge absorbs first-loss risk so other investors will fund a community project, which makes it a route to capitalizing demonstration projects whose outcomes a research partner can then study.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-investment amount is published. The funder's page reports aggregate figures only — $38 million in 2023 commitments, a $350 million impact-investing pool approved by the Board in 2015, and $166 million allocated to Detroit through 2021. Individual investment sizes are set case by case.
- Timing
- By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Invitation and RFP driven; no standing deadline. Live openings are posted on Kresge's Current Funding Opportunities page, and decisions on invited submissions typically take 10–12 weeks.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- The binding gate is that most Kresge programmes, the Social Investment Practice included, do not accept unsolicited proposals — the foundation invites applications for specific efforts or runs formal RFP processes, and open opportunities appear only on its Current Funding Opportunities page. Where applications are invited, the process runs from a Letter of Inquiry through Fluxx to a full proposal with narratives, budgets, demographic data and financial statements, with decisions typically 10–12 weeks after submission. Organizations must comply with federal and state nondiscrimination law; Kres
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- program-related investment · guarantees · community development finance · health equity · urban opportunity
- Apply at
- https://kresge.org/our-work/social-investment-practice/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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