Investing and Social Impact: Practices of Private Foundations

Much attention is being given to foundation investing practices— both foundation efforts to pursue programmatic goals through impact investing, and whether foundations are investing endowment assets in ways that may be at odds with their missions, values, or goals. To better understand foundation practices in these areas, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) collected data on the prevalence of impact investing and negative screening, as part of a larger operational benchmarking study with large private foundations.