We empower philanthropists to advance untapped climate solutions, with speed and scale.
Today, Prime knocks down barriers for philanthropists to deploy charitable capital into a broader set of untapped climate solutions. Our team’s deep philanthropy expertise and commitment to evidence-based assessment of impact and additionality guide philanthropists toward programs they can trust to enable climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience.
Our Story
The world’s most complex social and environmental problems — like climate change — will often require the speed and scale of market-based solutions.
In 2014, Prime and its growing coalition of visionary philanthropists began deploying catalytic capital alongside traditional grantmaking to mitigate global greenhouse gas emissions through early-stage technology innovation.
Today, Prime knocks down barriers for philanthropists to deploy charitable capital into a broader set of untapped climate solutions. Our team’s deep philanthropy expertise and commitment to evidence-based assessment of impact and additionality guide philanthropists toward programs they can trust to enable climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience.
Over 100 philanthropists that had never made a catalytic investment before have now partnered with Prime on their very first catalytic investment.
$100.9MM
catalytic capital into Prime
$2.2B
external capital crowded into Prime’s investment holdings
$322.2MM
catalytic capital mobilized by Prime
17,681
users of Prime’s knowledge-sharing resources
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