Neighborhood Revitalization: Companies, Investors & News

Capital Impact Partners is a nonprofit community development financial institution that lends to affordable housing, health, education, healthy food, cooperatives, and related community real estate. It traces to 1981–1982 federal cooperative-development roots and today operates as part of the Momentus Capital branded family with CDC Small Business Finance and Momentus Securities. The site frames Capital Impact as a mission-driven lender for projects banks often skip, with place-based clusters where staff know local partners. Affordable housing examples include preservation and mixed-use work such as a Redwood City project with HIP Housing that converted a small building into affordable studios in a high-rent market. Cooperative housing and ROC USA–style manufactured-home community resident ownership appear in long-running program history. Lending sits beside capacity-building programs for community-rooted real estate developers and co-op innovation awards. Growth-stage impact investments — venture debt, revenue or profit share, and preferred equity — target companies expanding economic opportunity, food and health access, or employee ownership. Investors can buy the Capital Impact Investment Note to fund the lending book while seeking a financial return. Borrowers apply through mission-driven financing and loan-offering pages for nonprofits, entrepreneurs, and community organizations. Because Momentus Capital is already listed separately in the Causeartist directory as the family brand, this profile keeps the Capital Impact Partners name and capitalimpact.org URL for operators who meet the CDFI as a housing and community-facilities lender. Capital Impact is a CDFI and community lender, not a housing-credit syndicator at NEF’s scale. Its edge is flexible debt and programs for housing, co-ops, health, and neighborhood facilities inside the Momentus continuum.

National Equity Fund is a nonprofit affordable housing investment manager and one of the largest nonprofit Low-Income Housing Tax Credit syndicators in the United States. LISC created NEF in 1987 to connect corporate investors with community developers building and preserving affordable rental housing. NEF’s core business is raising and deploying federal and state housing tax credit equity. It also provides predevelopment and preservation loans, supportive housing financing, workforce and moderate-income housing products, and investment structures that combine LIHTC with Opportunity Zone capital. In 2025, NEF reported raising and deploying $2.5 billion across 130 investments, including a record $1.94 billion in federal LIHTC equity. Those investments supported approximately 14,200 homes. Recent company materials cite roughly $27 billion to $30 billion invested over the organization’s history and approximately 260,000 affordable homes supported. NEF also directs resources back into community development through its relationship with LISC. The organization reports contributing more than $280 million in grants to support LISC’s work. Based in Chicago, NEF works nationally with affordable housing developers, investors, lenders, and public-sector partners.