Beneficial Returns is an impact investing debt fund. We borrow money from family foundations, donor advised funds and faith-based communities to make long-term loans to social enterprises reducing poverty in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Beneficial Returns provides loans of $75,000 to $500,000 for revenue-producing and cost-saving equipment to social enterprises focused on sustainable agriculture and energy, waste reduction and re-purposing and poverty alleviation. Beneficial Returns focuses on: -emerging markets where the opportunities are greatest and where access to long-term financing is in shortest supply; -vetted borrowers who have been recognized by the most respected names in social enterprise/social finance; -the "missing middle" - enterprises too large for microfinance but too small for Development Finance Institutions. Beneficial Return's investors are individuals with donor advised funds and private foundations that want to activate their un-deployed philanthropic assets for social and environmental good. They recognize that their money can have a positive impact even before it is given away.
