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DRK Foundation: early-stage funding for social enterprises
Closes No fixed deadline
- Funder
- Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
- Type
- Funding
- Country
- Global
- Who can apply
- Early-stage social enterprises and non-profits from any country working in DRK's priority sectors. Chile is neither named nor excluded on the page.
- Amount
- Up to USD 300,000 over three years, as an unrestricted grant or as investment capital, usually in several tranches
- Duration
- 3 years
Official link checked on 3 September 2026.
A venture philanthropy fund that backs early-stage social enterprises and non-profits with evidence of impact on underserved populations and a scalable model, with money and three years of board-level support. Applications are open all year: initial review takes 8 to 10 weeks, about one in five reaches interviews and fewer than one in ten reaches due diligence.
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