Quantify your impact on the world.

The first comprehensive turnkey software solution for measuring, analyzing, and reporting impact of any kind.

Imagine if you could look at any investment, project, or government funded program and immediately know how impactful it is.

How it works.

  1. Select the type of impact you want to measure.

  2. Customize our algorithm to your preferences and priorities.

  3. Act on your results to achieve greater societal impact.

Who should use iRR®?

iRR allows you to calculate how efficient your financial allocations are at accomplishing social, environmental, economic, or governance-related objectives, and has broad use and applicability across sectors.

  • Improve your investment performance and downside risk protection.

    Streamline your impact data analytics.

  • Make more informed CapEx and OpEx decisions for greater impact and ESG results.

    Align desired impact to business allocations.

  • Gain better understanding of your impact across grantees and portfolios.

    Deepen your program impact insights.

  • Elevate the visibility and awareness of your mission, programs, and impact on society.

    Clarify your impact communications.

  • Increase your agency's or city's impact accountability and transparency.

    Strengthen your policy and program reporting.

iRR in the Media

  • Corporate Compliance

    “A better way to measure ESG [making] impact more akin to recognizable accounting & financial reports…iRR takes this approach.”

    -Corporate Compliance Insights, 2023

  • World Changing Ideas

    Impact Rate of Return is recognized as a 2022 World Changing Idea by Fast Company in the Impact Investing category

    -Fast Company, 2022

  • Bloomberg

    iRR “calculates a unit of social or environmental return for the original investment that’s interchangeable and comparable”

    -Bloomberg, 2019

  • Financial Times

    iRR is a “framework for predicting and measuring the positive social and environmental impact of a project that will be of interest to impact investors”

    -Financial Times, 2018

  • Fortune Magazine

    “Funds should also integrate impact measurement and reporting into their decision-making…including Impact Rate of Return”

    -Fortune Magazine, 2019

  • New York Stock Exchange

    “Investors often set an expected internal rate of return at the outset of their investments…similarly, they can do the same with their impact goals by using iRR”

    -New York Stock Exchange, 2019

  • Harvard Business Review

    “By predicting the relative performance of a given set of program options, partners can allocate capital based on specific priorities and goals”

    - Harvard Business Review, 2018

  • Fed. Reserve Bank of NY

    “Fund managers should additionally select, measure and report on metrics… in alignment with validated third-party evaluation methodologies [including] iRR”

    -Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2019

  • Forbes

    “Impact Rate of Return, a tool to measure the rate of impact for every dollar a person invests. It’s now used by more than 75 impact investors or funds”

    -Forbes Impact 50, 2020

  • American Library Assoc.

    “iRR as a measure for comparing various social investments - will make this work a visionary…method for determining the value of this type of funding”

    -American Library Association, 2018

  • Kirkus

    “It's precisely these [iRR] equations that prove social value investing a workable discipline-not merely a fuzzy dream of do-gooders”

    - Kirkus Reviews, 2018

  • ImpactAlpha

    “We tested Impact Rate of Return's potential efficacy as a process for impact management explicitly for the OZ community”

    - ImpactAlpha, 2019

  • National Real Estate Investor

    iRR is "an innovative approach to performance measurement and management...to calculate how efficient [investors] are at accomplishing social impact"

    - National Real Estate Investor, 2020

  • Medium

    “This new software comes at a perfect time, and will be an invaluable measurement tool to demonstrate the power of smart...development”

    - Medium, 2020

  • OECD

    “Efforts have also been made to create comparable impact data through quantitative approaches such as...Impact Rate of Return”

    - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2019

  • Fast Company

    Organizations can "consider their 'comparative advantage,' and [this] universal measure of 'impact' can be as fungible as money"

    - Fast Company, 2011

Global Impact LLC

Global Impact LLC is an advisory firm specializing in project, investment, and organizational performance measurement and management. We help clients to scale the reach and impact of their work, across sectors and geographies.

We have been serving public, private, and philanthropic sector clients for over a decade, advising on cross-sector partnerships, ESG strategy, and impact measurement and management. Global Impact utilizes a proprietary Impact Rate of Return® methodology to estimate, track, analyze, and report on social, environmental, economic, and governance-related impact.

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