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Introducing: Earthshot Pledge

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.
Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

The Challenge:

Capital is Stuck, Impact is Stalled

Philanthropic capital was never meant to sit still. Yet today, in the US alone, nearly $2 trillion in tax-deducted philanthropic capital sits idle inside large financial institutions—accumulating fees while being deployed at a glacial pace, if at all. Private foundations and donor-advised funds (DAFs) are legally required to “do good”, yet they are managed like traditional wealth portfolios, prioritizing asset preservation and passive growth over capital deployment and measurable impact.

The problem isn’t a lack of capital—it’s a misalignment of incentives. The current system rewards inaction, as asset managers charge AUM-based fees, disincentivizing capital throughput. The result? The world’s most urgent and investable opportunities—climate resilience, regenerative infrastructure, health equity, food and water security—are chronically starved of capital, while tax-advantaged dollars flow into Wall Street, often propping up industries that actively undermine the very change this capital was legally designated to support.

This isn’t just inefficiency—it’s a fundamental market failure. While private capital is beginning to wake up to the seismic shift from an extractive economy to a more regenerative economic model, philanthropic capital remains structurally underutilized. This mispricing of opportunity is leaving significant financial returns on the table while also slowing the pace of transformative change.

Earthshot’s 5% Pledge: Action, Not Inertia

Earthshot Pledge is a purpose-built financial instrument that allows donors to activate as little as 5% of their tax-advantaged philanthropic capital—flowing it through DAFs, private foundations, and corporate giving accounts into a diversified, sector- and stage-agnostic portfolio of for-profit “Earthshot” investments that deliver venture-scale returns alongside global-scale, systemic impact. By unlocking capital that would otherwise sit idle, Earthshot ensures that at least a portion of these dollars start working now—without compromising donors’ longer-term giving strategies.

With a throughput-based fee structure, Earthshot is engineered for movement. Our success is directly tied to how fast and effectively we deploy capital, not by how much we manage—rewarding action over inertia. Returns flow back into donor accounts, where they can be directed into future “Earthshot” opportunities or other personal philanthropic priorities. This fuels a virtuous cycle of reinvestment and redeployment—compounding impact over time, ensuring dormant dollars don’t just move—they multiply.

At the core of Earthshot is a next-gen financial platform that empowers donors to seamlessly transfer a variety of tax-deductible assets (cash, stock, crypto, real estate, etc.) into the Earthshot capital pool—eliminating administrative friction with built-in compliance automation so that philanthropic dollars flow at the speed of private markets. This isn’t about charity—it’s about unleashing the full legal and financial potential of tax-deducted capital to drive change, deliver returns, and redefine what’s possible.

What Makes Earthshot Different?

This is not another impact fund. This is not philanthropy-as-usual. Earthshot Pledge is a radically new model for activating philanthropic capital—transforming tax-advantaged assets into a powerful engine for systemic change while maintaining the financial discipline of private markets. By blending downside-protected investmenting strategies with a tech-enabled capital deployment system, Earthshot moves at the pace impact requires—ensuring philanthropic dollars don’t just coast, but catalyze.

Realigning Incentives: From Stagnation To Acceleration

Traditional wealth managers are financially incentivized to sit on philanthropic assets, charging AUM-based fees while keeping capital parked indefinitely in passive Wall Street portfolios.
A throughput-based fee structure tethers our incentives to the speed and scale by which we can intelligently deploy capital into high-growth, high-impact “Earthshot” investments.

Strategic Velocity: Making Capital Catalytic

We invest across the full lifecycle of companies and funds tackling climate resilience, regenerative infrastructure, food and water security, health equity, and planetary restoration—from early innovation to late-stage scale.
Earthshot moves capital fast—but never carelessly. By combining an impact-first mandate with carry-based incentives, we attract top private-sector investment talent while maintaining focus on measurable impact.
Earthshot sources our direct private placements through a trusted global network of aligned partners, experts, and capital allocators, while also identifying and financing top-tier impact fund managers already driving transformative change.

Intelligence Meets Impact: AI-Driven Investing for Systemic Change

Earthshot stands on the shoulders of decades of research and data aggregation led by mission-driven organizations, development banks, impact funds, and academic leaders. By partnering directly with these global data stewards, we transform their hard-won insights into a real-time investment intelligence system, helping us map the highest-leverage financial and social ROI drivers tied to systemic change.
We leverage AI to analyze vast datasets, mapping thousands of impact funds and direct deals against historical performance, market dynamics, and emerging trends. By detecting patterns of scalability and risk, and combining machine learning with human insight, our AI-driven diligence model accelerates decision-making, sharpens portfolio construction, and improves risk-adjusted returns.
Exceptional returns come from exceptional teams. Earthshot incorporates a Founder & Team Readiness Level assessment into its diligence process—measuring leadership potential, resilience, and coachability using data-driven psychological insights. This ensures we invest not just in the right ideas, but in the right people—and actively support their growth throughout the investment lifecycle.
Earthshot’s innovative platform automates the investment of philanthropic capital into high-impact private placements via DAFs, Fiscal Sponsorship Programs (FSPs), Mission-Related Investments (MRIs), Recoverable Grants, Non-Recourse Loans, Impact Bonds, and more—ensuring full regulatory compliance, so that tax-advantaged dollars can move faster and work harder than ever before.

Why This Will Scale—Fast

Earthshot Pledge works because it’s not asking donors to be more generous—it’s offering them a better deal. It speaks directly to the financial instincts of wealth holders and their advisors, transforming philanthropy from a passive reserve into a high-performance asset class. By driving dormant, tax-advantaged capital into the world’s most urgent and investable solutions, Earthshot provides a blended, risk-optimized path to venture-scale returns and global-scale impact—all without disrupting existing long-term giving strategies. By aligning incentives and providing a seamless mechanism for rapid deployment, Earthshot Pledge has the power to move billions in sidelined capital toward the next generation of market-shaping opportunities.

Donors retain full control over 95% of their philanthropic capital, while the activated 5% becomes a fast-moving engine for global solutions, financial returns, and compounding impact.
The Pledge is a globally applicable model designed to work seamlessly across DAFs, private foundations, and corporate giving vehicles—making it a ready-now solution for advisors and allocators.
Earthshot’s market-driven approach is meant to transcend ideology and bureaucracy—appealing equally well to climate-first philanthropists, conservative wealth stewards, corporate leaders, and fiduciaries under pressure to put dormant assets to work.
With philanthropic tax law in the US stable and favorable through at least 2028, Earthshot Pledge serves as a unique and time-sensitive opportunity to shift billions of tax-advantaged capital into action—with full compliance and zero structural change required.

Earthshot Pledge is more than an investment vehicle—it’s a fundamentally new operating system for trillions in philanthropic capital, redefining how wealth stewards align purpose with performance.

By embracing natural wealth preservation instincts and transforming them into a driver for global growth, Earthshot turns idle dollars into catalytic capital—moving at the speed of markets to meet the urgency of this moment.

The most investable transformation of our lifetime is already underway—driven by climate risk, technological breakthroughs, shifting consumer demand, and regulatory tailwinds. The transition to a low-carbon economy alone represents a $10 trillion opportunity, with equally transformational upside across regenerative infrastructure, climate resilience, human longevity, and more. Private capital is already mobilizing toward this future—Earthshot will make sure that philanthropy can keep up.

Philanthropy isn’t broken—it’s just been asleep. Earthshot Pledge is how we wake it up—and rewrite what’s possible. The capital exists. The pipeline is waiting. The window is open—but not for long. This is the moment to decide: will philanthropy remain a passive spectator—or become a driving force that defines the 21st century?

The Time to Act is Now

CONTACT

Earthshot Pledge

55 Hudson Yards
New York, NY 10001, USA

Activate just 5% of your tax-advantaged philanthropic assets and gain access to a blended, high-impact portfolio of for-profit “Earthshot” investments—delivering systemic change alongside venture-scale returns.

The Earthshot Pledge is a fundamentally new operating system for strategic giving—awakening $2 trillion in dormant philanthropic capital to tackle the world’s most urgent and investable challenges—now.