The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation established the True North Fund to leverage its role as a Social Innovation Fund (SIF) intermediary. By combining federal funding with the private resources of the Foundation and other philanthropic co-investors, we hope to maximize support for youth-serving grantees and demonstrate how public and private dollars can be aggregated to help evidence-based programs achieve greater impact and scale.

EMCF is proud and grateful to have been joined by 12 partners in the True North Fund:

• The Duke Endowment
• The JPB Foundation
• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• George Kaiser Family Foundation
• The Kresge Foundation
• Open Society Foundations
• The Penzance Foundation
• The Samberg Family Foundation
• The Starr Foundation
• Tipping Point Community
• The Wallace Foundation
• The Weingart Foundation

Augmenting the $60 million expected from the SIF and EMCF, these 12 co-investors have committed a total of $53 million over three years to fully execute their SIF-funded growth and evaluation plans and meet their federal matching requirements. (An additional $4 million has been raised by grantees directly from more than 20 other funders.) 

We welcome and actively seek additional institutional and individual philanthropic partners to join us in propelling effective organizations to scale and sustainability through the True North Fund.