Visible Fund
2025 Annual Report
A brief update from the Fund Manager -
The Visible Fund portfolio completed its 6th full year in 2025. With 12 active investments in the portfolio, the impact the Fund is having across the globe is really quite remarkable, especially when taking into account the places these investments are being made are far from easy places to do business and ministry. With just under $530,000 deployed since launching the fund in 2020, $5.38m in additional funds have flowed into these investments in the form of additional donations and revenue, amounting to a 10x multiple on invested capital in terms of much-needed cash flowing into these ministries. We’ve deemed this phenomenon Catalytic Capital (funding begets more funding, or maybe another moniker “if you build it they will come”), which perfectly complements the Catalyst Model (our global strategy for transformative/holistic ministry).
I cannot imagine a more sustainable or durable funding model for doing hard work in hard places like these.
110 jobs are currently being sustained, 139 local partners are supported across these communities, and thousands of people in need are directly reached by these initiatives. 29 key local change-makers are being employed and empowered, who serve as local Catalysts in their own communities and are one of the key elements to our model being effective in a wide diversity of contexts (currently 57 communities across 32 countries). $990,000 in local annual revenue was generated in 2025 alone. These numbers are staggering considering that the average investment size across our currently portfolio is approximately $44,000 per investment. Of the $530,000 deployed by the Fund to date, $109,000 (20%) has been fully recycled via our unique Recoverable Grants model. Those funds are made available to be reinvested in future initiatives, perpetuating the impact of dollar invested.
The Visible Fund set out to solve a “chicken or the egg” problem in the global ministry space. Many generous donors want to see what’s possible from ministry leaders before deciding how much to give. The problem is that most ministry leaders are “building” around their own very limited and realistic budgets rather than dreaming of what’s possible. The Visible Fund is a platform where we can pool funding that serves to underwrite the ideas of on-the-ground leaders. In other words, we’re saying to these leaders “Go dream big and the funding will follow.” We then back all of that dreaming up by doing the diligence to provide proof of concept that the funding can be recycled, despite the tough nature of these initiatives and the places they’re being built in. Somebody has to make the first move to unlock what’s possible, and in God’s Kingdom, so much more is possible than we are often able to imagine.
By supporting the Visible Fund, you are investing in these leaders, helping a global ministry innovate towards a better industry funding model, and ultimately you are seed-funding transformative ministries in challenging places across the globe, the kinds of places where we tend to find Jesus already at work.
Sincerely,
BrandonWeidman (Fund Manager)
Portfolio:
Artificial intelligence meets Rural Farmers in South Asia
A local change-maker approached us for start-up funding to build a technology that could help tens of thousands of rural farmers in their region gain access to financial services by merging artificial intelligence with everyday apps like Whatsapp to create a digital ledger that banks would use to evaluate lending and banking eligibility for unbanked farmers. When the entrepreneur mentioned that the endeavor was in the running to be backed by Google Innovation Labs as well as a local government grant, we knew he was onto something “catalytic”. This venture is at the convergence of real-world, felt-needs in South Asia (where we have a team with boots on the ground) and the leading frontier-lab artificial intelligence many companies are building new technologies on today.
Catalytic Capital (2020-2025)
Relief / Rebuild: Ukraine
A new apartment complex is rising in the Veliky Lazy IDP community, one of the Visible Fund’s first investments early in the Russia–Ukraine war. When it’s finished, this building will give nine displaced families a place to call home: four handicap-friendly apartments on the ground floor, five more above, each one sized for families of four to six. There will be one shared kitchen on every floor, a common living room downstairs, and a laundry room where neighbors will fold towels together and trade stories instead of trauma.
Read this powerful story about displaced families who found refuge here:
ACROSS THE RIVER: Escape From Oleshky
Catalytic Capital
After making an investment in this South African recycling enterprise led by our local team there, they’ve gone on to receive $810,000 in additional grant funding from local Corporate Social Responsibility programs from large companies who have a vested interested in cleaning up the community and developing the next generation of workers through the youth-empowerment model that is central to this recycling enterprise.
Hard Work in Hard Places
The Visible Fund aspires to invest where few other investment dollars can go, which we refer to as pre-frontier communities. We believe this is exactly where Jesus would have been found
Integrated community transformation is our core purpose. It’s a strategy to realize Jesus’ claim that the Kingdom of God is here. With Jesus, we seek to model his own ministry, focusing on the needs of the whole person. We want to see people as Jesus does — responding to their spiritual and physical needs in an integrated way. We focus on people in the context of their community—regarding everyone from recognized leaders to those on the margins who seem invisible. We come alongside the community to work collaboratively toward transformation.
Our ultimate focus is to see change that reflects Jesus. We begin by ensuring that no one is invisible and everyone has access to food, freedom, and forgiveness. Access to those holistic needs opens the door for deep transformation.