Philanthropic support

Why support us?

The PRI’s vision is for a global financial system that rewards responsible investment, operates within planetary boundaries, promotes human rights, and achieves equitable societies. Since its inception, the PRI has helped to mainstream responsible investment globally and has raised awareness of the financial risks of sustainability factors on the value of investments with thanks to organisational strengths, such as: 

• Convening power: The PRI plays a unique role in convening investors from across asset classes to work with peers and collaborate on sustainability issues, creating communities of best practice and opportunities for collaborative action.
• Influence and scale: The PRI engages directly with over 5,300 signatories across nearly 100 countries, representing an AUM of US$125+ trillion, to serve their needs and to foster a larger, stronger, and more diverse global responsible investment eco-system.
• Regional-first: The PRI is a valuable partner in the ecosystems that it operates in, tailoring its approach to the diverse needs of signatories based in different regions while leveraging our global position, expertise and network to support and foster regional RI ecosystems. 
• Systems-thinking approach: The PRI ensures that all our work is carried out through a single systems change plan to prioritise and promote interventions in the financial system to make it more sustainable and to empower investors to achieve sustainability outcomes through the investment value chain.
• Independent voice: The PRI is supported by, but is not part of, the UN, which allows it to be an independent voice that is connected to a global network of best practice. 

Our fundraising approach

The PRI is in a privileged position to have the support of a wide range of grantors that have each helped contribute towards our mission. Our Grants policy  guides the PRI’s engagement with these grantors. 

Details of our grant-funded programmes can be found in our most recent Annual report.

Download our 2024 Annual Report

Spring: Our grant-funded PRI stewardship intiative for nature

Spring is a PRI stewardship initiative for nature, addressing the systemic risks of biodiversity loss to protect the long-term interests of investors. Through this, the initiative aims to contribute to the global goal of halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030. 

Catalytic funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation enabled the PRI to develop and launch Spring in June 2024, which now has 200+ investors endorsing the initiative, representing US$16 trillion in AUM. 

With further philanthropic support, Spring plans to enhance engagements through sustained support, broaden its geographical and sectoral scope, and build participation in emerging markets over the initiative’s next phase. 

The Principles for Responsible Investment is strengthening investor efforts to address corporate impacts and dependencies on forests—across business operations, supply chains, and public policy engagement. Through PRI’s Spring initiative, investors are increasingly aligned in setting clear expectations for transparency and ensuring that corporate conduct—both internal practices and external policy engagement—supports forest-positive outcomes in line with deforestation commitments.

Sabine Miltner, Program Director, Conservation and Markets Initiative, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation