Backed by a group of leading economists, researchers, and academics, Constellation’s metrics allow us to project the long-term health and income benefits of most direct-service poverty interventions, which are compared against costs to create benefit-cost ratios. The benefits in these return-on-investment analyses come from the measurable poverty-fighting impacts that evidence indicates will be created as a direct result of Constellation’s investments into our grantee partners.
Here is a snapshot of the projected impact of our most recent round of investments.
May 2022 Grant Round
Overall Investment Summary
TOTAL INVESTMENT
$2,005,000
AVERAGE GRANT
SIZE
$138,214
AVERAGE BENEFIT-COST
RATIO
$5.47 : 1
PROJECTED POVERTY-FIGHTING IMPACT
$10,967,350
By investing in 14 of our community’s most impactful nonprofits, $2,005,000 of your donations to Constellation are projected to create $10,967,350 of quality-of-life improvements for individuals living in poverty in the Twin Cities. This return on investment comes from the measurable impacts that evidence indicates will be created as a direct result of these investments in our grantees, such as:
Projected Investment Outcomes Highlights
Total
INDIVIDUALS TO INCREASE EMPLOYMENT
206
STUDENTS TO IMPROVE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
3,302
INDIVIDUALS TO IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH
77
INDIVIDUALS TO EXPERIENCE REDUCED HOMELESSNESS
158
To-Scale View of Poverty-Fighting Impacts
