2024 Annual Report
For 37 years, Echoing Green has been on the front lines of solving the world’s biggest problems, raising up the transformational leaders willing to speak truth to power and challenge the status quo. We find emerging leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible and sets them on a path to lifelong impact. Our community of nearly 1,000 social innovators includes past Fellows such as First Lady Michelle Obama and the founders of Teach For America, Center for Black Innovation, BlocPower, and One Acre Fund. Built and refined over three decades, Echoing Green discovers tomorrow’s leaders today, and then funds, connects, and supports a new generation of social impact leaders.
Practicing Hope
As we reflect on the current state of the world and its increasingly pressing challenges, we’re reminded of the wise words of American activist and organizer Mariame Kaba: “Hope doesn’t preclude feeling sadness or frustration or anger or any other emotion that makes total sense … Hope is a discipline… we have to practice it every single day.”
And in all of the rooms we sit in throughout the year, no one knows this sentiment better than Echoing Green Fellows. We remain inspired and focused on our collective future because of them.
Investing in bold leaders for nearly four decades
$65.3M
invested in 964 Fellows
in 86 countries
$14.8B+
raised by Fellows
60%
of organizations we’ve funded are still in operation
80%
of Fellows remain in the social sector
Advancing Racial Equity
Echoing Green launched the Racial Equity Philanthropic Fund to ensure that today’s heightened awareness of racial inequity translates into sustained action in the social innovation field.
After three years, we’re proud to report that we have met or exceeded all three goals of the Racial Equity Philanthropy Fund:
Our Progress:
We invested $21.6M in social innovators, achieving 100% of our goal.
Our Progress:
We reached 6,791 leaders through programming and workshops that elevate racial justice, achieving 135% of our goal.
Our Progress:
We engaged 15,193 employees through workshops and skill-sharing engagements with social entrepreneurs.
Meet the 2024 Fellows
In 2024, we selected 44 new Echoing Green Fellows who are leading systems change to create a more just world. The 2024 cohort is one of the largest and most geographically diverse cohorts in the organization’s history. In today’s challenging times, these leaders are creating the bold solutions that our world needs now.
Signal Fund
This year, Echoing Green launched Signal Fund to provide capital to social innovators that traditional investors often deem as too high risk. Despite being one of the most powerful drivers of social change, too many social innovators aren’t receiving the capital they need to scale when they need it most. Meet some of the Signal Fund recipients below.
Field-Building
At Echoing Green, we are deepening our commitment to nurturing a vibrant community of social innovators. To expand our impact, we are prioritizing investments in building the field of social innovation. By strengthening the ecosystem for social innovation, we aim to drive greater understanding and support for these impactful change makers.
Looking to Ahead 2025
From meeting or exceeding all of the goals of the Racial Equity Philanthropic Fund to announcing one of our largest Fellow cohorts to date, this past year was one of immense impact for Echoing Green.
And as we look ahead to the future, we’re excited to apply the learnings from the last several years to an important initiative: a new, five-year strategic plan.
Outlining organizational focus through 2028, the strategic plan includes several priorities for Echoing Green. The plan re-asserts our deep commitment to identifying and nurturing a vibrant community of social innovators, but also officially expands our scope of impact by articulating a priority to invest in building the field of social innovation. This initiative builds on Echoing Green’s strong track record of bringing social innovators, partners, and supporters together to maximize cross-sector collaborations and social impact. We hope to strengthen the field of social innovation, resulting in a greater understanding and increased level of support for more social entrepreneurs.
Looking ahead to the next year, we’re excited to dive deeper into operationalizing the strategic plan, collaborate with more partners and supporters to invest deeply in emerging social innovators, and continue to drive transformative, community-led change throughout the world.
Thank you to our supporters
Our deepest thanks to all our supporters, including the following donors and partners who contributed to our work in FY24 (July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024).
FY24 Donors $500,000 and Up
FY24 Donors $100,000 and up
Barclays
BlackRock
Bloomberg Philanthropies
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Comic Relief US
Debbie and Ajay Nagpal
The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation
Godley Family Foundation
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The Johnson & Johnson Foundation
Dr. Marie Kelly
The McCance Foundation
Noah Walley
Peggy Segal and David Topper
Robin Hood
T. Rowe Price Foundation
FY24 Donors $50,000 and up
Amy and Dan Weiss
Joshua Mailman and Monica Winsor
Mario Morino
Maurice Amado Foundation
Melinda Wolfe and Ken Inadomi
MUFG Bank
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Skoll Foundation
The Wieseneck Family
FY24 Donors $25,000 and up
Andrew Kassoy and Margot Brandenburg
Anonymous
Bookey Family Foundation
Cranemere
David and Lisa Issroff
Esther Benjamin, Anjali Benjamin-Webb, Shanthan Benjamin-Webb
Fossil, Inc.
Global Atlantic Financial Group
Income Research + Management
The John P. and Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation
Mary Armstrong
Maya Ajmera and David Hollander
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Rene and Marie-France Kern
Tiger Global Impact Ventures
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