Grantee Profile

Since 2001, Acumen has deployed $260 million to 215 portfolio companies, imparting the lives of more than 648 million people. Acumen invests patient capital in early-stage companies, providing reliable and affordable access to critical goods and services – like health, water, energy, housing, and agriculture – to low-income customers.

Acumen launched the Global Fellows Program in 2006, expanding to 8 other regions in the intervening years: Colombia, East Africa, India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, Spain, the UK, and West Africa. The Fellowship is a transformative, cohort-based leadership program for extraordinary individuals with a commitment to solving problems of poverty. Many alumni of the program go on to become trailblazing leaders in the field of social change.

About Our Grants

In 2023, the Woodcock Foundation awarded Acumen a three-year, $550,000 grant to support Acumen Academy.