Fool Community Foundation
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The Fool Community Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck move from financial stress to financial freedom. Born out of The Motley Fool community and based in Alexandria, Virginia, the foundation builds and scales solutions that help people save, grow financial knowledge, and strengthen resilience through life's challenges, advancing a mission of financial freedom for all.
Key benefits
Venture Philanthropy
ImpactFool Fund finds and accelerates innovative nonprofits with multi-year unrestricted support and strategic partnership.
Financial Freedom Focus
Concentrates on savings capacity, financial knowledge, and resilience for households living paycheck to paycheck.
Education at Scale
Freedometer brings interactive investing and personal finance learning into classrooms nationwide.
Community-Powered
Harnesses The Motley Fool community's experience and resources to pay impact forward.
Through its ImpactFool (IF) Fund, the foundation applies venture philanthropy to find, fund, and accelerate innovative nonprofits working on financial capability, savings, and resilience. Grantees receive multi-year unrestricted funding plus strategic support, for example, ImpactFool Nonprofits have received commitments such as $300,000 over three years, while programs like the Freedometer expand interactive investing education in classrooms nationwide.
Donations to the IF Fund are exclusively for charitable purposes directed by the foundation.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Fool Community Foundation fund?
- The Fool Community Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck move from financial stress to financial freedom. Born out of The Motley Fool community and based in Alexandria, Virginia, the foundation builds and scales solutions that help people save, grow financial knowledge, and strengthen resilience through life's challenges, advancing a mission of financial freedom for all.
- What is Fool Community Foundation's check size?
- Varies
- What is Fool Community Foundation's investment thesis?
- Through its ImpactFool (IF) Fund, the foundation applies venture philanthropy to find, fund, and accelerate innovative nonprofits working on financial capability, savings, and resilience. Grantees receive multi-year unrestricted funding plus strategic support, for example, ImpactFool Nonprofits have received commitments such as $300,000 over three years, while programs like the Freedometer expand interactive investing education in classrooms nationwide. Donations to the IF Fund are exclusively for charitable purposes directed by the foundation.
- Which sectors does Fool Community Foundation invest in?
- Community Development, Education, Impact Finance, Social Enterprise
- Which companies has Fool Community Foundation backed?
- Causeartist lists 1 published portfolio company for Fool Community Foundation.
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- 2019
- Portfolio companies
- 1
