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.
Below is a snapshot of the projected impact of our most recent round of investments. To dig even deeper, keep scrolling for a detailed outcomes report from this round of funding as well as impact reports from previous rounds.
May 2024 Grant Round
Overall Investment Summary
TOTAL INVESTMENT
$1,860,000
AVERAGE GRANT
SIZE
$178,000
AVERAGE BENEFIT-COST
RATIO
$4.20 : 1
POVERTY-FIGHTING IMPACT
$6,811,100
By investing in 10 of our community’s strongest nonprofits, $1,860,000 of your donations are projected to create $6,811,100 of longterm impact. Evidence indicates that over the next year these organizations will create longterm health and income improvements for 87,862 of our neighbors experiencing poverty.