Our charter authorizes three forms of support to qualifying institutions. These programs translate that mandate into practice.
We perform structured, multi-source data analysis on questions that bear on the safety, security, or welfare of an institution's stakeholders. This includes populations, infrastructure, supply chains, employees, congregations, students, and communities.
Our analytic work is methodologically transparent. We document our sources, our reasoning, and the limits of what the data can support. Findings are delivered in formats institutions can actually use: written assessments, briefings, structured datasets, and visualizations.
"We start with the question the institution actually needs answered, and design the analysis around that, not around what's easiest to produce."
For questions that require depth in a specialized field, we connect institutions with practitioners who have spent careers building that depth. Our advisory engagements range from one-time briefings to multi-month engagements supporting an institution's own analytical or strategic work.
This program is particularly useful for academic researchers, public agencies, and mission-driven organizations whose work is gated by access to experienced practitioners they cannot easily retain.
"Our advisors are practitioners, not commentators. They have done the work, and they bring that experience to institutions that need it."
Where it serves the institution's long-term interest, we focus on building durable analytical capability rather than producing analysis ourselves. Capability building engagements help institutions develop the people, processes, and tools to do this work in-house, on their own terms, going forward.
This work is intentionally slower than direct analytical support. We measure success by what the institution can do after our involvement ends, not what we produce while it lasts.
"Lasting protection of stakeholders requires institutions to own their analysis. Our role is to make that ownership possible, and then step back."
If your institution is working on a question of stakeholder safety, security, or welfare, and you believe Foundation support could help, we want to hear from you.