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Social Investments Made

A database of all social investments made since 2009. We update this listing several times a year as new investments are committed.

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Inclusive Prosperity Capital

Inclusive Prosperity Capital (IPC) works to ensure all communities—especially those historically underserved—can access clean energy benefits. IPC finances projects for nonprofits, faith-based groups, small businesses, affordable housing, and lower-income homeowners. Kresge’s guarantee provides credit support for CDFIs buying into the fund, helping them overcome risk concerns and easing their path into the market. View Website

Amount

$2 million guarantee

Year

2024

Location

Rocky Hill, Connecticut

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Inclusive Prosperity Capital

Inclusive Prosperity Capital (IPC) works to ensure all communities—especially those historically underserved—can access clean energy benefits. IPC finances projects for nonprofits, faith-based groups, small businesses, affordable housing, and lower-income homeowners. Kresge’s equity investment offers flexible, catalytic capital that IPC will blend with public and private funds to scale clean energy investments in underserved markets. T View Website

Amount

$2 million equity investment

Year

2024

Location

Rocky Hill, Connecticut

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Cap Solar

Cap Solar identifies potential clients, puts together a pipeline of investment-ready solar projects, and arranges financing and installation. Cap Solar ensures that its fellow nonprofit clients get the maximum savings from their solar installations. Kresge's $1.5 million loan to Cap Solar supports predevelopment and construction capital. View Website

Amount

$1.5 million Loan

Year

2024

Location

Hackensack, NJ

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Green the Church

The Green The Church Redevelopment Fund (GTCRED) is a Black faith-led initiative that mobilizes church-owned property for community revitalization and climate resilience. With Kresge’s investment, GTCRED will provide predevelopment and acquisition capital for faith communities seeking to transform underutilized land into housing, community centers, and clean energy projects. This investment will help GTCRED move its first wave of projects forward while positioning the fund to raise additional capital and scale its impact. This loan will be utilized as pre-development and construction financing for solar, solar+storage, and EV-charging systems installed on buildings owned or leased by members of Green the Church. View Website

Amount

$3 million program-related investment loan

Year

2024

Location

Oakland, CA

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Green the Church

The Green The Church Redevelopment Fund (GTCRED) is a Black faith-led initiative that mobilizes church-owned property for community revitalization and climate resilience. With Kresge’s investment, GTCRED will provide predevelopment and acquisition capital for faith communities seeking to transform underutilized land into housing, community centers, and clean energy projects. This investment will help GTCRED move its first wave of projects forward while positioning the fund to raise additional capital and scale its impact. This guarantee will provide credit support to a longer-term capital provider, who will provide the "take-out financing" for systems constructed with Kresge loan proceeds. View Website

Amount

$1 million guarantee

Year

2024

Location

Oakland, CA

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Marygrove Conservancy

The Marygrove Conservancy is a nonprofit stewarding the 53-acre historic Marygrove campus in northwest Detroit. Its mission is to preserve the campus as a long-standing educational anchor while repurposing it for high-quality community use. Kresge’s loan guarantee supports the final phase of the campus’s P-20 redevelopment: renovating the Florent Gillet dorms and Madame Cadillac Hall. This investment continues the transformation of Marygrove into a cradle-to-career education hub, supporting both community revitalization and academic innovation. View Website

Amount

$28 million guarantee

Year

2024

Location

Detroit, Mich.

Program

Detroit, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Transformative Project/Marygrove

Collective Energy Company

Collective Energy focuses on designing and implementing clean energy solutions, particularly for health centers, to ensure reliability and resilience. Kresge's $3 million guarantee help demonstrate how the new transferability of federal investment tax credits can support community projects and support long-term capital needs. View Website

Amount

$3 million guarantee

Year

2024

Location

Ojai, California

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Urban Strategies Inc.

USI is a national nonprofit organization that champions the cause of children and families in disinvested communities. In 2022 they became an approved CDFI with the goal of funneling economic resources into disinvested communities. Kresge's investment into this emerging CDFI is considered a “builder loan” with the explicit purpose of helping prepare USI to take on other more traditional and scalable sources of CDFI financing. View Website

Amount

$500,000 program-related investment loan

Year

2024

Location

St. Louis, Missouri

Program

Human Services, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Clean Energy Credit Union

Clean Energy Credit Union (CECU) offers a range of consumer climate-finance products for appliances, EVs, energy efficiency, heat pumps, solar panels, and related products. In partnership with Inclusiv, this $2 million program-related investment loan intends to accelerate the timeline in which community development credit unions enter the climate finance space and expand its solar and other climate-related lending in underserved communities. View Website

Amount

$2 million program-related investment loan

Year

2024

Location

Englewood, CO

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

The Works Inc.

The Works is one of Memphis’ largest nonprofit real estate developers in South Memphis and has a track record of increasing available affordable housing options for residents by removing blight and clearing vacant parcels, rehabbing singlefamily and multifamily housing units, and providing housing policy advocacy work. This enterprise-level investment provides flexible, low-cost capital in Memphis. View Website

Amount

$2 million program-related investment loan

Year

2023

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

American Cities, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

Urban Renaissance Partners, Inc.

Urban Renaissance Partners will finance the first phase of renovating a vacant school building in the South City neighborhood of Memphis. The site will be redeveloped and anchored by an early childhood center, a component of the HUD South City Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI).

Amount

$543,000 program-related investment loan

Year

2023

Location

Memphis, TN

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

United Community Housing Coalition

This guarantee supports a line of credit available to UCHC to cover advances of Federal rental assistance program funds prior to reimbursement from MI State Housing Development Authority View Website

Amount

$1.5 million guarantee

Year

2023

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

St. Bernard Project (SBP)

The St. Bernard Project (SBP) mission is to reduce the time between a disaster and full recovery by rebuilding homes, increasing preparedness and resilience, and improving systems to better serve the needs of all Americans. SBP also works to create solutions for families in need of safe, affordable housing. This guarantee supports its Recovery Acceleration Fund (RAF), which ensures millions of dollars are available annually to help families repair their homes post disaster at no cost. View Website

Amount

$2 million guarantee

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, LA

Program

American Cities, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

The Reinvestment Fund

The HBCU Brilliance Initiative financially supports Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The fund aims to help HBCUs invest in their facilities, financial stability, and long-term growth. The program also seeks to help HBCUs build their networks, policy advocacy, and research to strengthen their relationships with their communities. View Website

Amount

$3.5 million program-related investment

Year

2023

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Program

Education, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

PosiGen

PosiGen is a solar panel installation company that offers residential solar and energy efficiency services to low-to-moderate-income homeowners. Kresge's loan will help PosiGen succeed and scale its work in existing and new markets. View Website

Amount

$812,957 program-related investment loan

Year

2023

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

People’s Solar Energy Fund

The People's Solar Energy Fund aggregates community solar projects in low and moderate-income communities across the country to secure financing at scale with a path to local ownership. These high-impact investments contribute to wealth building, job creation, racial justice, resilience, and a more democratic economy. Kresge's loan will expand availability of pre-development capital of communiy-based solar developers and others. View Website

Amount

$1 million program-related investment loan

Year

2023

Location

Albany, NY

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Opportunity Resource Fund

Opportunity Resource Fund provides loans to create equitable, economic and sustainable opportunities throughout Michigan - one person, one job, one home at a time. OppFund will combine these dollars with other funds in its portfolio to provide single-family mortgages to low and moderate-income individuals and families for home purchases in Detroit. View Website

Amount

$3 million equity

Year

2023

Location

Detroit, MI

Program

Detroit, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

National Faith Homebuyers

National Faith HomeBuyers' mission is to expand the American dream of homeownership to everyone. They do this by encouraging, educating and empowering families to take ownership of their lives and develop financially responsible behavior. This loan supports the Detroit Downpayment Assistance Program. View Website

Amount

$500,000 program-related investment loan

Year

2023

Location

Detroit, MI

Program

Detroit, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Midtown Detroit Inc.

This loan supports the completion of a $125 million flagship project in Midtown Detroit. The project purpose is to build a brand new, green, mixed-use development in Midtown Detroit. View Website

Amount

$2 million program-related investment

Year

2023

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Marygrove Conservancy

This guarantee benefits New Markets Tax Credits providers and covers construction completion, loan interest payments, and default costs. The Marygrove Conservancy manages operations and stewards the 53-acre Marygrove College campus in northwest Detroit as a resource for high-quality uses in the community. View Website

Amount

$10 million guarantee

Year

2023

Location

Detroit, Mich.

Program

Detroit, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Transformative Project/Marygrove

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