Mulago Foundation Fellows and Portfolio Funding
A design-for-impact funder that combines grants with debt or equity where the structure fits, and pairs money with explicit training in impact measurement and scaling strategy. The measurement training is the substantive draw for this database: Mulago's model is built on defining and tracking a single outcome metric, so a funded organization becomes a natural partner for rigorous outcome research, and the training itself builds evaluation capacity inside the organization.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-organization award figure is published. The funder's page reports $28 million deployed across the portfolio in the past year as an aggregate only, and describes sustained rather than fixed-term investment.
- Timing
- By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No traditional application deadline. Mulago maintains ongoing recruitment and selects roughly 20 new Fellows per year through its own sourcing and conversation process.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Open to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations with a scalable solution to poverty, across health, education, livelihoods, nutrition and environmental protection. The real gate is selection rather than application: Mulago does not run an open rolling application, but identifies candidates itself — reviewing roughly 1,000 organizations a year, holding deeper conversations with 200-plus, and selecting about 20 new Fellows annually. Funding follows the founder and the organization, so a university cannot be the applicant; an academic researcher would engage as the measurement or evaluation p
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- poverty reduction · scaling · impact measurement · founder training · blended capital
- Apply at
- https://mulagofoundation.org/
- 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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