Five design clusters, twenty-four criteria, and the tensions between them.
An interactive map of where leading impact valuation methodologies sit across the five design clusters that determine whether a framework gets adopted or quietly abandoned. Select any criterion to read the tension it sits on, trace which clusters it trades against, and overlay where named methods — GiveWell, SROI, Robin Hood, and others — stand out. The interactive companion to Match the model to the mission.
A reference directory of impact valuation methods and their primary public sources.
The main published methods funders use to value social impact, grouped by family — funder cost-effectiveness models, innovation-focused models, income-based returns, monetized social value, wellbeing units, management standards, value for money, and cost-effectiveness guides. Each entry names the unit the method works in, the decision it was built for, what it does well, and links to its primary public sources.
Portfolio analysis through structured + unstructured AI.
A working demonstration of how AI-assisted analysis fits into a foundation's grants management. The assistant routes between qualitative vector search over grant documents and structured queries against grant data — letting a user ask qualitative questions ("what challenges did grantees face?") and quantitative ones ("how many grants did we make in Uganda?") through one interface. Built on a 100-grant illustrative portfolio.
This demo uses synthetic data. Please contact Spencer MacColl at SRA for access at: spencer@socialreturnadvisory.com.