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 2023 Grant Round
Overall Investment Summary
TOTAL INVESTMENT
$2,240,000
AVERAGE GRANT
SIZE
$160,000
AVERAGE BENEFIT-COST
RATIO
$5 : 1
PROJECTED POVERTY-FIGHTING IMPACT
$11,156,650
By investing in 14 of our community’s most impactful nonprofits, $2,240,000 of your donations are projected to create $11,439,450 of long-term impact. In total, evidence indicates that over the next year the poverty-fighting services of these organizations will collectively create over $152,000,000 worth of long-term health and income improvements for nearly 10,000 of our neighbors experiencing poverty.
