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.
November 2022 Grant Round
Overall Investment Summary
TOTAL INVESTMENT
$1,905,000
AVERAGE GRANT
SIZE
$146,538
AVERAGE BENEFIT-COST
RATIO
$6 : 1
PROJECTED POVERTY-FIGHTING IMPACT
$11,439,450
By investing in 13 of our community’s most impactful nonprofits, $1,905,000 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 $186,479,340 worth of long-term health and income improvements for over 63,408 of our neighbors experiencing poverty.
Highlights of Projected Grantee Outcomes
Total
INDIVIDUALS TO IMPROVE GENERAL HEALTH
27,891
INDIVIDUALS TO EXPERIENCE FINANCIAL BENEFITS
23,460
INDIVIDUALS TO ACHIEVE INCREASED EMPLOYMENT
2,631
INDIVIDUALS TO INCREASE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
1,279
To-Scale View of Poverty-Fighting Impacts
