Started in 2002, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK Foundation) is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting social enterprises.
History
The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is the philanthropic arm of
Draper Richards, a
venture capital firm founded by
William H. Draper, III and Robin Richards Donohoe in 1994. DRK Foundation was originally founded as the Draper Richards Foundation in 2002 and began by making investments in the
United States and
India.
[ In 2010, ]Robert Steven Kaplan
Robert Steven Kaplan (born 1957) was most recently the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and is a former long-time Goldman Sachs executive.
Prior to joining the Dallas Fed, Kaplan was a faculty member and senior associate ...
of the Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
joined the Foundation and it changed its name to the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
Portfolio
Since beginning this work in 2002, DRK has invested in more than 190 organizations. Organizations funded includ
Peepul India
in 2020, Watsi
Watsi, legally Watsi, Inc., is a nonprofit healthcare crowdsourcing platform that enables individual donors to directly fund medical care for individuals in developing countries without access to affordable medical care.
Background
Watsi was ...
in 2013, Kiva in 2007, Living Goods
Living Goods is a non-profit organization headquartered in Nairobi, with core operations in Uganda, Kenya, and Burkina Faso. Its mission is to saves lives at scale by supporting digitally empowered community health workers (CHWs) who deliver care ...
in 2007, and Room to Read in 2002.
See also
* Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Arnold Ventures LLC (formerly known as The Laura and John Arnold Foundation) is focused on evidence-based giving in a wide range of categories including: criminal justice, education, health care, and public finance. The organization was founded by ...
* Mulago Foundation
The Mulago Foundation is a private foundation focused on high impact philanthropy: investing in charities and philanthropic opportunities that have the highest impact. The foundation was originally envisioned by Rainer Arnhold, a San Francisco pe ...
Ssamba Foundation
* Jasmine Social Investments
Jasmine Social Investments is a New Zealand-based private foundation started by the entrepreneur Sam Morgan in 2006 following the sale of his company Trade Me to Fairfax Media.
Similar resources
* Acumen Fund
* Bill and Melinda Gates Foundatio ...
* Good Ventures
Good Ventures is a private foundation and philanthropic organization in San Francisco, and the fifth largest foundation in Silicon Valley. It was co-founded by Cari Tuna, a former '' Wall Street Journal'' reporter, and her husband Dustin Moskovi ...
* High impact philanthropy
Effective altruism is a philosophical and social movement that advocates "using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible, and taking action on that basis". People who pursue the goals of effective altruism, cal ...
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Foundations based in the United States
Menlo Park, California
Organizations established in 1994
1994 establishments in California