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 2021 Grant Round
Overall Investment Summary
TOTAL INVESTMENT
$1,650,000
AVERAGE GRANT
SIZE
$126,923
AVERAGE BENEFIT-COST
RATIO
$4.83 : 1
PROJECTED POVERTY-FIGHTING IMPACT
$7,969,500
By investing in 13 of our community’s most impactful nonprofits, $1,650,000 of your donations to Constellation are projected to create $7,969,500 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 into our grantees, such as:
Projected Investment Outcomes Highlights
Total
INDIVIDUALS TO IMPROVE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
159
INDIVIDUALS TO INCREASE THEIR EMPLOYMENT
86
CHILDREN TO EXPERIENCE REDUCED CHRONIC ILLNESS
26
INDIVIDUALS TO EXPERIENCE REDUCED HOMELESSNESS
108
To-Scale View of Poverty-Fighting Impacts
