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What We Offer

For 25 years, RSF has been expanding the definition of social finance by providing loans, gifts, and investments that foster social and spiritual renewal. All of our services are designed to align your money with your values, and encourage direct and meaningful relationships between investors and social entrepreneurs, donors and grantees.

Overview

RSF Social Finance offers three investment options for those seeking meaningful and transformative financial relationships.

Social Investment Fund

The RSF Social Investment Fund offers a dependable way to diversify your portfolio, while preserving capital and generating a return similar to that of a bank CD.

Mezzanine Fund

The RSF Mezzanine Fund provides capital to help an enterprise achieve growth through a mix of debt, warrants, royalty streams, fee notes, and/or convertible notes.

PRI Funds

The RSF PRI Fund gives family foundations a streamlined way to make loans from program payouts.

Impact Investing Portfolios

RSF offers its Donor Advised Fund clients a choice of three innovative Impact Investing Portfolios designed to achieve deep social impact while growing philanthropic dollars.

Overview

Borrowers not only receive financing to meet their capital needs; through a close relationship with RSF, each becomes part of a larger community working to change the way the world works with money.

Core Lending

Since 1984, RSF has made over $150 million in loans to both nonprofit and for-profit organizations. At the end of 2008, our Core Lending portfolio totaled over $80 million.

Mezzanine Finance

RSF Mezzanine Finance is an excellent option for growth-stage entrepreneurs seeking to create maximum social impact.

PRI Program

RSF PRI will offer below-market-rate loans ranging from $200,000 to $1 million to organizations focused on sustainable agriculture and other specialized, high-impact areas.

Overview

The RSF Donor Advised Fund is a charitable giving vehicle that allows an individual, group, family, corporation, trust, or foundation to make a tax-deductible contribution to RSF, and then recommend grants to qualified nonprofit organizations.

Donor Advised Funds

The RSF Donor-Advised Fund is a charitable giving vehicle that allows an individual, group, family, corporation, trust, or foundation to make a tax-deductible contribution to RSF, and then recommend grants to qualified nonprofit organizations.

Focus Area Funds

RSF Focus Area Funds pioneer an innovative model of grant-making designed to encourage collaboration and learning throughout the process.

Seed Fund

The RSF Seed Fund provides small gifts (between $1,000 and $5,000) to seed new initiatives that fall within RSF’s mission statement; successful grantees offer innovative solutions to furthering the field of social finance, or address issues in one of our three focus areas.