SYNE Foundation funds programs in climate adaptation, education and community land stewardship - and reports every grant's outcome through Impact Management, the same platform we recommend to every non-profit and foundation customer. If the attribution methodology isn't rigorous enough for our own money, it isn't rigorous enough for anyone else's.
Not every program here is a grant - some are co-investment, co-venture or in-kind technical partnerships. What they share is a focus area where our own data and methodology can actually help prove impact, not just describe it.
Grants to community organisations building resilience against physical climate risk - flooding, drought and heat exposure - verified with the same monitoring data used across the platform.
Programs building climate-economy skills - from vocational training in renewable energy trades to data-literacy programs for community organisations.
Local water-basin and land-restoration projects, monitored with the same satellite and ground-sensor data SYNE Climate Risk Management uses for corporate customers.
Co-investment alongside microfinance and community lending institutions, using verified outcome data to extend credit to underserved populations.
Technical partnership and in-kind platform access for early-stage social ventures and assistive-technology projects, run through SYNE Labs.
Biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration grants, drawing on the same nature-based project research as SYNE Carbon's own pipeline.
Some of what the Foundation funds runs through dedicated parts of SYNE built specifically for this kind of work.
A co-test, co-venture ecosystem inside SYNE for social good, assistive technologies and community-led programs - built for ideas that need a technical partner more than a cheque.
Capital markets access and structured finance for the projects and transitions specific to community and climate programs the Foundation supports at scale.
Visit SYNE CapitalEarly-stage investment focused on Deep Technology, Climate Technology, Space Technologies, Financial Technologies, AI and Health Technologies - where a Foundation program area overlaps with a venture-scale opportunity.
It would be easy to hold our own philanthropy to a lighter standard than we ask of customers. We do the opposite - every grant runs through Impact Management, with the same attribution and verification rules applied to anyone else's programs.
Grant outcomes are adjusted for deadweight and displacement - the same attribution modelling described on the Impact Management page - before we report a number as impact.
A sample of grant outcomes is independently verified against source data - the Foundation gets no internal carve-out from the verification rules customers face.
Outcomes are published in the annual impact report, not just reviewed by our own board - the same transparency we ask non-profit customers to offer their own funders.
Running our own grants through Impact Management surfaces the same rough edges a grantee would hit - and those findings go straight back into the product.
Every organisation we fund gets access to the same measurement infrastructure we use to hold ourselves accountable.
Grantee organisations get access to Impact Management to measure their own program outcomes, at no cost for the duration of the grant.
Grant and fund accounting sized for a lean team, so grantees aren't managing grant compliance in a separate spreadsheet.
Advisory support designing an outcome framework, at the scoped, lightweight level a grantee actually needs.
Our annual impact report shows what our grant programs actually achieved - net of deadweight and displacement - not just what we spent.
If a number in this report looks more modest than a typical foundation's marketing materials, that's usually the counterfactual adjustment working as intended - not a program falling short.
Tell us about your program - if it fits one of our three focus areas, we'll talk through whether it's a good match.