Impact

As one of the only organizations solely focusing on seeding sustainable social change organizations, Echoing Green evaluates the impact of our work on a few different levels.

Scale:

• To date, Echoing Green has invested over $28 million in seed grants to over 471 social entrepreneurs.
• Echoing Green Fellows have sparked social change in forty countries on five continents.

Return on Investment:

• By year two, Echoing Green Fellows raise three times their Echoing Green grant.
• Five years after the completion of their fellowship, Echoing Green funded organizations raised total dollars equivalent to thirty-seven times their total Echoing Green seed investment.
• According to a 2004 study, Echoing Green Fellows’ organizations raised approximately $930 million to support their work—an ROI of forty-four times our initial investment.

Launching Organizations Built for Impact:

• By year two, 58 percent of Echoing Green organizations have budgets over $100,000, compared to 43 percent of peer organizations.
• By year two, 86 percent of Echoing Green Fellows hire at least one additional staff member, compared to 75 percent of peer organizations.

Creating Long-Term Solutions:

• Approximately two out of three organizations founded through an Echoing Green investment reaches sustainability.
• Of the organizations without current fellow involvement, 75 percent continue to thrive under new leadership.

Echoing Green also assesses our fellows' idea diffusion—how our fellows' innovative ideas, models, or strategies for social change are adopted, adapted, and developed by other institutions and eventually considered a mainstream practice.