We started the Dai Impact Fund in 2025, the year our family decided we wanted to give more carefully — and more publicly — than we had before.
It's a donor-advised fund: a small bucket we top up each year and grant out to organizations doing work we believe in. Nothing fancy. Most of what we do is read, ask questions, and write checks.
We picked the name because Dai is our family name. We picked the sprout because we like things that grow slowly. We picked the .org because we wanted the site to feel like a place, not an account.
— The Dai family
We don't ask for a logframe, a theory of change, or a five-year roadmap. If we trust you with the money, we trust you with how to spend it.
We don't do branded press releases. We list grantees so others can find them, and that's it.
Most of what matters compounds. We try to give multi-year so people can plan past their next quarter.
We give to people we'd want to share a meal with. The fund is small enough to do that.