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The restoration economy needs capital. Our funds deploy it.

A family of research-backed, blended-finance funds closing the capital gap for the nurseries, rural businesses, and communities that nature-based climate solutions depends on.

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The restoration economy has a structural capital gap.

Less than 2% of global philanthropy reaches climate, and nature-based work receives only a fraction of that. Meanwhile, the businesses and landowners doing restoration work on the ground — nurseries, contractors, land managers — operate in a capital environment that wasn't built for them. Deal sizes are too small, timelines are too long, and risk profiles are too unfamiliar for conventional lenders.

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Our funds are designed to close those gaps — deploying flexible capital where it's needed most, backed by the deepest sector research available.

They’re built on a three-layer capital strategy: TA grants ensuring impact-first operations, catalytic capital taking patient first-mover positions, and investment capital scaling the fund to its long-term target.

This blended approach makes nature-based lending possible for capital that otherwise couldn't participate.

Our family of funds:

FIR: Forest Inputs Resilience Fund

CURRENTLY FUNDING
Launched: Q1, 2026

A private debt fund lending to US forest nurseries – the supply chain that determines whether America can replant its forests.

RRF: Rural
Resilience Fund

CURRENTLY FUNDING
Launched: Q2, 2026

An intermediary lending fund supporting rural development and land restoration work across the western United States.

Community Equity Fund

COMING SOON
Launching: Q3 2026

Equity investments in rural small businesses anchoring restoration economies nationally.

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Invest in FIR: Forest Inputs Resilience Fund

America's forest nursery sector has been contracting for decades. Production peaked at 2.6 billion seedlings in 1980. Today it's 1.5 billion, against near-term demand of 2.5 billion. There’s a 1 billion seedling deficit, and it's growing.

The causes are structural: 950 million seedlings now come from just 8 industrial growers. Independent nurseries are closing as margins shrink, commercial lenders won't touch the risk, and aging owners retire without successors. Public nurseries have been cut back by budget reductions. The sector is consolidating and narrowing at the moment the country needs it to diversify and expand.

The FIR Fund deploys flexible capital to the nurseries best positioned to reverse that trajectory. We're driving to a $2M pilot within a $50M target, proving the thesis before scaling.

Target fund size: $50M.
Deal sizes: $100K–$500K.
Initial footprint: East Coast.
Pipeline: $80M+ in viable opportunities across 30+ companies in 15+ states.

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Or funds are built on first-of-its-kind sector research:

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Rural Resilience Fund

Federal conservation programs like NRCS and EQIP only reimburse landowners after they've already paid out of pocket — effectively excluding the families most likely to benefit. The Rural Resilience Fund is a Community Development Loan Fund built specifically to bridge that gap.

Forest Input Resilience Fund

The US can't hit its reforestation goals without nurseries — and nursery infrastructure is contracting right as demand surges. The Forest Inputs Resilience Fund is dedicated debt capital for the businesses upstream of every reforestation project in the country.

Forest Nursery Landscape Assessment

The US is short roughly a billion tree seedlings a year, and the supply chain is contracting just as demand surges. We visited operators across 20 states to map every nursery that matters — and designed the financing facility we think can change the trajectory.

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