Helping mission-driven work get funded — and get done.
Whether you're a funder, a non-profit, or a founder, IKA assembles the right strategy, the right capital, and the right people around your goal — and stays through implementation. We work across philanthropy, non-profits, and ventures, so we can reach blended, cross-sector solutions a single-lane advisor can't.
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What we do
Three pillars, equal weight
Philanthropic Advising
For funders and family offices who want their giving to go further. We design giving strategies, source and vet opportunities, and build the structures that turn capital into measurable impact.
$11B in endowments · a $1M blended fundNon-Profit Consulting
For mission-driven organizations that need to get stronger and better funded. We sharpen strategy, formalize governance, and connect you to the donors and networks that help you grow.
16 partners across 6 countries, one clientImpact Businesses
For mission-aligned businesses that need capital, expertise, and the right partners to scale. We help entrepreneurs sharpen their story, structure their raise, and connect to aligned investors and cross-sector partners.
We operate two of them ourselvesSelected work
What we were asked for, what we did, and what came of it.
Rebuilding a $10M raise from the evidence up
A conservation organization was asking funders for a number its own deck could not justify.
Global Forest GenerationA giving strategy for $11B in endowments
Endowment scale is not the same thing as a philanthropic strategy, and the next generation gave differently.
A North American federation networkTelling a client they asked for the wrong thing
They came to us for customers. The evidence said their opening was capital.
21CC EducationOperating a company, not advising one
A clinical thesis is not a business until someone runs it.
CytokindIKA Activate
Our network is the firm’s real asset, and for years the only way into it was to ask Iva. Activate is the version that scales without wasting anyone’s time: you bring a specific need, we match it by hand, and no name is shared until both sides say yes.
Selected clients & partners
Across philanthropy, non-profits, and impact businesses — in health, climate, education, and the built environment.
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Iva Kaufman
Iva has spent her career at the intersection of philanthropy, non-profit strategy and social finance — designing giving programs, building blended vehicles, and connecting the people who fund change to the people doing it. She curates every match this firm makes.
“A good idea doesn’t find its funder on its own. Someone has to know both sides well enough that the introduction is worth taking — and that isn’t a database. It’s a career of knowing who actually shows up.”
— Iva Kaufman · draft wording, for Iva to make her own
- Chairs the board of the Circumpolar Conservation Union
- Trustee, Peace Development Fund
- UN High Level Political Forum
- PVBLIC Foundation Family Office Initiative (SDGs)
- Impact Entrepreneur Business Advisory Board
- ASBN Livable Planet Working Group
A team built around your problem — not an org chart
Every engagement gets a purpose-built team. We pull the right specialists from our private network — built environment, impact investing, governance, go-to-market, market entry — and assemble them around your specific goal, then manage the work through to results.
Because we work across philanthropy, non-profits, and ventures at once, that team can reach solutions a single-lane firm can't: a foundation's grant that de-risks a venture, a non-profit mission that unlocks blended capital, a technology that advances a funder's goals.
“Ms. Kaufman provided inspired leadership in the creation of a social venture philanthropy fund in support of critical projects and programs in Israel serving its diverse citizenry.”
How we engage
We start with the outcome you're after — clarifying goals, mapping the landscape, and defining what success looks like.
We turn strategy into a concrete plan — the partners, capital, governance, and milestones needed to make it real.
We don't just advise and leave. We deploy our network to execute — managing the work through to results.
Insights
Perspectives from the intersection of philanthropy, non-profits, and ventures — plus the IKA newsletter.
Why the most durable impact comes from working philanthropy, non-profits, and ventures as one system.
The most expensive fundraising mistake isn’t a weak pitch — it’s meeting the right funder six months too early.
An operator's case for earned revenue as the truest form of impact insurance.
Have a project at the intersection?
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