The Legatum Foundation is the granting arm of the Legatum group of companies, allocating capital at the bottom of the Prosperity LadderTM to projects, people and ideas that create sustainable prosperity.
The Legatum Foundation applies the insights learned from 20 years of investing in the global capital markets to its granting activities. This approach has led the Foundation to take a sector approach to granting and to developing a set of origination, due diligence, evaluation and reporting tools that allows us to track our grant portfolio’s impact over time. Each grant is carefully considered to ensure that the implementing organisation is truly serving individuals in a manner which helps them unleash their productive potential.
Over the past 10 years Legatum has allocated over $50 million to 1,220 life changing projects in 110 countries. In 2009, the Foundation will impact 5 million lives, for a cumulative total of 11 million lives changed over the last decade.