MSC's Donor Advised Funds

MSC’s Donor Advised Fund

Your resources can be more than just financial.
They can be catalysts for justice, equity, and positive transformation.
Be a part of the movement and birth a new world.

MSC’s Donor Advised Fund (DAF) program activates your resources in partnership with a powerful ecosystem of activists, change agents, and capital innovators to build community wealth and power on the frontlines of racial, gender, and environmental justice movements.

Our proven track record spans a quarter century and has positioned us as leaders in movement building and philanthropic innovation and our large and growing movement ecosystem enables us to help you channel resources toward innovative solutions to society’s most pressing challenges as they evolve for tangible, transformative change.

Capitalizing Deeper Impact

MSC connects your passions and insights with cutting edge solutions via powerful partnerships with leading organizations that are investing in justice. In addition, Full Spectrum Advisors and Adasina Social Capital help us steward both public and private market investments within our DAF ecosystem. Our partners can help you to craft comprehensive capital strategies that unify social and environmental impact with financial growth, aligning your resources for impact. Through your MSC DAF you can advance a full spectrum capital approach to impact through grants, recoverable grants, loans and guarantees, notes, and equity investments.

Our partners can support your creation of Community Wealth and Alternative Investment Portfolios, magnifying the impact of your DAF resources for community development and social justice. In addition, Adasina’s Social Justice Public Markets Portfolios can bring strong returns to your DAF portfolio while shifting our economy towards a more just future.

This is a different kind of Donor Advised Fund.
The MSC DAF is about deeper impact, more meaningful engagement,
and solutions that address the core challenges of traditional DAFs.

THE CHALLENGES

THE SOLUTIONS

Traditional DAFs leave it to you to figure out how to use capital for transformative change.

MSC and our capital partners have years of activism and social transformation experience, perspective, and insight, and apply a racial justice and equity lens to the operation and management of our DAFs, ensuring distributions are equitable, community-centered, and address systemic barriers that have historically impacted access to philanthropy.

Traditional DAFs lack access to the community leaders who are closest to problems and solutions.

Funders and impact investors interested in democratizing capital stewardship through participatory and trust based philanthropy, lending, and investment can also establish CAFs (Community Advised Funds) through community and social change leaders, shifting control of capital and assets to those communities who know best how to direct the flow of resources into solutions for their communities.

Traditional DAFs don’t drive change and should deploy money more quickly.

We encourage DAF donors to advise distributions in a way that rapidly moves funds out to organizations and movements that address societal inequities, rather than sitting on MSC’s books. To facilitate such movement of funds, MSC applies a 25% minimum annual distribution requirement to all DAFs, and encourages donors to advise annual distributions beyond the applicable minimum.

Traditional DAF fees often fund financial organizations and that feels misaligned.

At MSC, your DAF fees amplify our transformative work as a trusted, BIPOC-led, community-accountable steward of the progressive movement ecosystem. Fees are fully aligned with the change you are hoping to catalyze, and will resource innovation that allow us to offer more unique services to our partners.

Traditional DAFs can feel transactional and unfulfilling.

The MSC DAF offers onramps into “right relationship” and Beloved Community with movement leaders, ecosystem stewards, other capital stewards, and communities with programming for DAF donors that shed light on equitable grantmaking strategies and to provide updates to donors from MSC grantees.

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Join us.
If you are interested in leveraging resources for deeper, lasting impact, email
[email protected].
Existing donors can visit MSC’s Donor Advised Fund portal.