The Legatum Foundation is the development arm of the Legatum Group, allocating capital at the bottom of the Prosperity Ladder to projects, people and ideas that create sustainable prosperity. We are inspired by the belief that every life is of infinite value, and for over a decade have funded thousands of small, community-based organisations across the developing world.

1. HEALTH
2. EDUCATION
3. DISASTER RECOVERY
4. HUMAN
   LIBERTY
5. ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
6. ENVIRONMENT

Our Progress

Since 1999, Legatum has allocated over US$ 110 million to 1,480 life-changing projects, impacting over 270 million lives globally. LEARN MORE

Our Thinking

Our Impact: Featured Projects

We seek the highest possible returns on investment by allocating capital to the most effective humanitarian projects and programmes, whilst requiring investment-grade levels of transparency and accountability from grantees. LEARN MORE

Our Portfolio

The Legatum Foundation organises and structures its granting according to the Strategic Initiative (SI) model, which enables us to coordinate the efforts of otherwise isolated programmes and increase the size and depth of the impact over a three-year implementation period. Browse the gallery below to learn more about some of our recent SIs:

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Luapula Province, Zambia - Edward Koni rejoices after regaining his sight through treatment at the St Paul's Mission Hospital. LEARN MORE

Haiti - In response to the Haiti earthquake disaster in 2010, Legatum Foundation seeded the Haiti Earthquake Recovery Fund with a $100,000 grant which was directed toward the provision of solar kits, comprising solar panels, lamps, radio connectors and mobile phone chargers to 8,000 homeless families. LEARN MORE

Yunnan, China - Lily, a Health Unlimited staff member, prepares to take a "HIV Quick Test". LEARN MORE

North India - Rakesh Kumar, 11, from Hajipura village attends a year seven class at school. Rakesh was rescued enroute to Delhi, taken by a trafficker who had promised Rakesh's parents he would receive work and become rich. LEARN MORE

Beijing, China - About four million rural-to-urban migrants live in Beijing. This inititaive provides otherwise unavailable services, such as affordable education to migrant children, like these, pictured at Qinglian School. LEARN MORE

Northen Bihar, India - New grandmothers share their delight in the pediatrics section of Duncan Hospital. LEARN MORE

North Haiti - The agronomy programme at Université Chrétienne Du Nord d’Haiti (UCNH) is teaching local men and women how to grow the kind of plants the will enrich the soil and prevent erosion. LEARN MORE

Mali - Concentration and personal instruction from the dedicated Speed School teachers makes all the difference. LEARN MORE

Our Portfolio

The Luminos Fund is based on the success of the Speed School programme funded by the Legatum Foundation which has helped over 110,000 children get back to school in West Africa and Ethiopia.

With the concept now proven, we have scaled the programme into a pooled funding vehicle enabling many more donors to collaborate to help out-of-school children get back to class. The Fund combines the rigour and discipline of the investment world with the purpose and passion of the philanthropic sector in order to optimise impact.

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More than 30 million people are trapped in modern slavery, forced to work in brothels, mines, sweatshops, plantations and fishing fleets around the world. Founded by Legatum Foundation in 2013, in partnership with Humanity United and Walk Free, the Freedom Fund is an active ingredient in a new abolitionist movement in the fight against modern slavery. Building on fifteen years of anti-slavery work funded by Legatum Foundation, the Freedom Fund generates private funding, demonstrates how effective interventions can protect those at risk of being enslaved, invests in countries with the greatest incidence of slavery, brings together a community of activists committed to the cause and, ultimately, aims to bring an end to modern slavery. Legatum hopes through the Freedom Fund to catalyse over $1 billion in new private antislavery investments over the coming decade.

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Launched in 2012, the END Fund is dedicated to controlling and eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). NTDs are diseases of poverty that debilitate, blind, disfigure and cause early death to an estimated 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest people. To date, the END Fund has reached over 85 million people through mass drug administrations, trained over 230,000 health workers, and helped thousands of people with NTD-related surgeries. As an early investor in NTDs and the END Fund, Legatum’s goal is to mobilise $1 billion in private donations and see at least one billion people treated within the next ten years. We want to see the eradication of many of these debilitating diseases within our lifetime.

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