Attestation-Based Funding

Funded projects | Scaling Trust

Explore the projects we're funding in the Scaling Trust opportunity space.

Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter

Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.

Funds that lead pre-seeds — Curated VC Funds

A curated list of investors who write first checks at the earliest stage, backing founders before traction when conviction matters most. View this sheet and more on VC Sheet, where founders find the right investors for their round. Curated by Mat Vogels.

Hypercerts — Collective Intelligence for Funding Impact

Hypercerts create shared context—evidence, expert input, and community trust—for better resource allocation.

AT Protocol Community Fund

An AT Protocol community fund to support infrastructure, open source code development, and community initiatives like events and meetups. Hosted by Raft Foundation

SCA - News and views from across our networks

Over the last few years, SCVO has been engaging with organisations across the voluntary sector to collect evidence on the issues and barriers faced around access to funding. The evidence collected clearly demonstrates the urgent need for Fair Funding. We, along with many of our intermediary network members have contributed to this work, providing case studies relating to Government priorities as well as sector wide themes, illustrating why implementing Fair Funding is an investment in Scotland’s essential voluntary sector for a sustainable future.

The Importance of Validation and Decay In Community Reputation Metrics

When measuring contributions in your community, here are some essential recommendations for building fairness, retention, and growth.

The Race to Allocate One Trillion Dollars in Philanthropic Capital

Frontier Lab IPOs are coming, and philanthropy isn’t ready

Funders of a non blitzscale future

Mid Tier Venture Capital (VC)

Open Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS

The Open Source Endowment provides truly sustainable funding for critical open source software through a community-driven endowment model.

Capital Stack | Real Estate Investment Structure

Capital Stack is the structure of financing sources used to fund a real estate investment, such as a commercial property acquisition.

This CA proposition will send $4 billion to a single nonprofit. Who’s behind it?

Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.

Revenue-based financing

Revenue-based financing (also known as royalty financing[1] or royalty-based financing[2]) is a type of financial capital provided to growing businesses in which investors inject capital (sometimes called an advance) into a business in return for a fixed percentage of ongoing gross revenues (called royalties), with payment increases and decreases based on business revenues, typically measured as monthly revenue.[1][3]