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Build Trust.
Connect to Capital.
In an increasingly crowded impact landscape, credibility is the key to capital.
IEL’s Impact Authenticity Score (IAS) and Impact Navigator Database help fund managers validate their strategies, strengthen investor confidence, and connect with allocators seeking authentic impact.
Why It Matters
Investors need evidence, not just intention.
Without credible, third-party validation, even high-performing funds risk being overlooked. The Impact Authenticity Score (IAS) offers a consultative, evidence-based evaluation of how consistently a fund delivers on its stated mission and financial goals — giving allocators a trusted signal and fund managers a strategic edge.
The Impact Authenticity Score
A Standard for Credibility and Growth
The Impact Authenticity Score is a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive, evidence-based assessment. This methodology goes far beyond impact metrics – it considers a fund’s mission alignment and impact integration, team composition and experience, impact execution, and financial performance. It delivers the same caliber of data and decision-making frameworks allocators expect across any asset class, giving investors and advisors a clear, standardized way to evaluate, compare, and discover credible strategies that deliver both financial performance and authentic impact.
The IAS examines 49 weighted metrics across three key dimensions:
Mission Fidelity – How closely investment strategy reflects the fund’s stated purpose.
Impact Execution – Rigor and effectiveness of impact measurement, management, and reporting.
Financial Performance – Track record of achieving stated financial return targets.
Benefits for Fund Managers
Validate strategy with an independent, comprehensive review.
Strengthen investor confidence and streamline due diligence with IAS Performance Reports.
Gain visibility with verified profiles and featured placement in the Impact Navigator.
Receive actionable recommendations to guide future impact and investment strategy.
The Process
Collaborative. Comprehensive. Actionable.
Assess – IEL reviews fund documentation, IMM processes, and financial track record.
Verify – Through data validation, strategy analysis, document review, and manager interviews, IEL evaluates how effectively the fund delivers on its mission and financial objectives.
Showcase – Your firm profile and fund data room are published in the Impact Navigator, where allocators discover and evaluate high-integrity impact strategies.
Assessment Options
IAS Assessment - Comprehensive assessment designed for funds that have been deploying capital long enough to implement and demonstrate their impact management practices.
IASp Provisional Assessment - for early-stage funds that are still raising or within 12 months of their first investment
OPIM Alignment Verification - Verification of alignment with the Impact Principles (optional add-on to fund assessment).
The Impact Navigator Database
Visibility that Drives Results
All assessed funds are featured in the Impact Navigator, a trusted discovery and due diligence platform used by allocators and advisors to identify mission-aligned opportunities, and connect with the management teams behind them.
Verified profiles, structured data rooms, and standardized disclosures position your fund for success — at the moment investors are making decisions.
The IEL Difference
Built with the market: Framework developed in collaboration with leading investors, allocators, and fund managers.
Grounded in finance: Methodology designed to meet institutional capital markets expectations.
Third-party validation: Independent assessments, free from marketing spin.
Impact Fund Managers We’ve Worked With
“I really valued the framework design that you created. And you also taught me some language that I hadn’t really been thinking about in terms of how we’re investing… It is possible for us to achieve a more sustainable economy. It takes work, it takes commitment, and it takes companies, but also their investors, to support those companies.”
What They’re Saying
“It’s always helpful to have a third party assessment and to have someone outside the organization… So, we really took it seriously, and we went line by line and we were able to create…a scorecard to measure, not only the financial return but also that impact that our partners are having.”
“It was basically the wild west in impact investing. I think our intention to work with IEL is in part a response to the shifting maturity of the impact industry and our interest in having a third party verification to demonstrate that we are, in fact, leaders in this space and have someone come in, look through all of our systems practices, but also our financial performance and really understand if we’re walking the talk.”