Impact Investments

Going beyond traditional grantmaking.

What are impact investments?

Austin Community Foundation defines impact investments as opportunities that align social good with financial return to bring about positive social change and returns on investments.

With our impact investing tools and numerous partnerships, ACF believes that we can do more good by going beyond grantmaking to affect the social change we hope to see locally.

Our investments

We make investments in the form of low-interest-rate loans to organizations addressing economic mobility and housing affordability. This work is achieved through two programs at the Foundation: FundATX and the Housing Accelerator Loan Fund.

We are incredibly grateful to Austin Community Foundation for helping us with a loan to buy the land [for] Juniper Creek. The loan timing and flexibility allowed us to secure this critical site quickly in a hot real estate market.

Walter Moreau Executive Director, Foundation Communities