THE 2025 BENEVITY IMPACT REPORT
This was the year corporate purpose was put to the test. By all accounts, it prevailed.
2025 rocked our sector with political and regulatory shifts, disruption from artificial intelligence (AI), institutional challenges and social division. But 2025 also proved that purpose at work isn’t a fair-weather initiative; it is a competitive advantage for brands who stay the course.
Listen to the key stories and moments of impact from 2025.
SECTION 01: SOCIAL
Purpose is
what holds us
together
“There is power in unity, and there is power in numbers.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This year, Benevity leaned into both — bringing together our global community of corporate impact and nonprofit leaders to share perspectives, spark innovation and co-create solutions to emerging crises in real time.
We invested in convenings, education and guidance — sharing data-rich reports with timely insights and trends and program toolkits to help corporate social responsibility (CSR) leaders and their teams navigate complexity and mitigate risk while staying true to their values.
There’s a lot of collective trauma in this field, and what stood out was how the space Benevity created allowed for real conversation — that kind of sharing helps fortify practitioners. What’s exciting is the opportunity to convene not just for conversation, but for outcomes. Designing for specific outcomes – especially with the data and insights Benevity sits
on – is a real source of power.
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Virginia Tenpenny
Chief Impact Officer,
Nationswell
Nationswell
$16.6B
Total donations
2008-2025
RECORD BREAKING
$2.7B
Total donations
2025 calendar year
$20.1B
Total grants managed
2008-2025
*Total grants managed includes all grants that are facilitated and recorded in the Benevity platform.
$2.4B
Total grants managed
Total grants managed includes all grants that are facilitated and recorded in the Benevity platform.
2025 calendar year
122.9M
Volunteer hours
2008-2025
RECORD BREAKING
23.8M
Volunteer hours
2025 calendar year
7.7M
Changemakers
2008-2025
*The number of unique individuals within the Benevity platform that have made a donation, logged volunteer time or participated in Missions.
3.2M
Changemakers
*The number of unique individuals within the Benevity platform that have made a donation, logged volunteer time or participated in Missions.
2025 calendar year
558.5K
Nonprofits supported
2008-2025
312.4K
Nonprofits supported
2025 calendar year
170.3M
Acts of Goodness
2021-2025
*An Act of Goodness (AoG) is a positive action taken on the Benevity platform.
38.3M
Acts of Goodness
*An Act of Goodness (AoG) is a positive action taken on the Benevity platform.
2025 calendar year
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These outcomes show how our client community stepped up in 2025 — the number of individuals who gained access to food or received immediate, life-saving assistance during a disaster tripled compared to 2024. At the same time, results related to civic and community engagement rose into our top ten outcomes for the first time — signaling a growing commitment not only to meeting urgent needs, but also to strengthening the communities we serve.
Since 2020 we have nearly tripled workplace giving funds and matching gift funds for Save the Children. I think it's important to know that did not happen by chance. It happened by choice.
We invest in workplace giving because we know how much it matters. We know it matters to you. It matters to us. There's a tremendous amount of impact that happens thanks to that support.
We invest in workplace giving because we know how much it matters. We know it matters to you. It matters to us. There's a tremendous amount of impact that happens thanks to that support.
Luciana Bonifacio
Vice President and
Chief Development Officer,
Save the Children
Chief Development Officer,
Save the Children
Connecting purpose and performance
Investing in social impact initiatives isn’t just good for communities — it’s good for business. And Patagonia understands this deeply. Rose Marcario, former CEO of Patagonia, joined us on stage at Benevity Live! in 2025 for a live recording of Benevity Speaking of Purpose podcast to reflect on her experience leading a purpose-driven organization.
SECTION 02: GOVERNANCE
Oversight that holds us accountable
Leadership for the next era of impact
In 2025 we appointed Soraya Alexander as our new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), marking an important step in our next phase of growth and impact.
“The world's most enduring organizations are driven by purpose, and Benevity is the leader in bringing that purpose to life.” - Soraya Alexander, CEO, Benevity
Prioritizing what matters most to our ecosystem
Guided by our double materiality assessment and stakeholder feedback, we have sharpened our focus on what matters most to our ecosystem partners: trust.
This includes prioritizing governance and responsible AI while continuing to balance near-term regulatory demands with longer-term environmental ambitions.
In 2025, our governance efforts alongside our environmental and social focus landed Benevity in the top ranks of our investor portfolio based on ESG scores.
8.4
Hg portfolio average
2025 ESG score
2025 ESG score
9.0
Benevity 2025
ESG score
ESG score
Global giving in action
$2.7B
Moved securely and
compliantly in 2025
compliantly in 2025
99%
Our payment efficacy rate
The percentage of payments that are successfully processed and completed on the first attempt.
The percentage of payments that are successfully processed and completed on the first attempt.
Moving money across borders quickly, safely and compliantly is essential to supporting communities when it matters most. For example, after Hurricane Melissa, Benevity enabled $190K in donations to flow quickly to vetted nonprofits in Jamaica, helping get critical support to communities without delay.
Helping our community navigate uncertainty
OBBBA (One Big Beautiful Bill Act)
Military-use-of-funds (MUOF) risk management and controls
Clients and nonprofits navigating hate group activity
Executive orders and other government proclamations
Increased regional regulatory scrutiny in the face of increasing variability
across jurisdictions
Launched our Leading with Purpose resource hub to guide clients and nonprofits on how to lead through uncertainty in 2025
In 2025, we provided clients and nonprofits with expanded compliance support and data-backed insight to address evolving regulatory and reputational risks. This included providing readiness support for:
Strengthening cyber-security and fraud protection
When people feel secure, generosity grows. U.S. cybercrime losses grew 33% from 2023 to 2024, and are projected to rise further in the coming years as AI accelerates threat sophistication. Knowing this, we are committed to delivering ongoing system safety backed by world-class security and compliance standards.
Improved our internal security controls and systems and achieved our ISO27001:2022 certification.
Launched a machine-learning–driven transaction monitoring platform (beta) to actively detect and prevent fraud across nonprofit payments.
Strengthened platform safeguards by enhancing existing continuous
fraud monitoring, nonprofit due diligence and enterprise-grade controls.
SECTION 03: AI
A responsible approach to AI
In a world obsessed with going fast, we are driving an AI strategy that prioritizes integrity, ethics and transparency over speed.
2025 was a formative year as we worked to build a strong foundation for how and where AI can best support purpose at work, through the lenses of reducing toil for CSR professionals, enabling and driving more engagement, and optimising and reporting on impact. In 2025 we:
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Expanding access to our work starts with meeting donors where they are. At WCK, we recognize that AI search is becoming an essential part of how people find and support nonprofits. We’re pleased to see Benevity and Claude collaborate on a responsible, forward-looking tool that opens new avenues for donor engagement across the sector.
Tunde Wackman
Chief Development Officer, World Central Kitchen (WCK)
SECTION 04: PEOPLE
Our impact
at Benevity
Our people
Our teams don’t just build the tools for purpose at work, we live it. Our efforts in 2025, measured by Impact Genome Registry Benchmarks, go beyond just the numbers and show that we created real, measurable change.
We don’t separate purpose from performance. At Benevity, it guides how we work and show up — strengthened by the diverse voices, experiences and perspectives across our teams.
At Benevity, purpose is experienced from day one through Launchpad, our best-in-class onboarding program that connects new hires to our products, culture, values and impact.
Over 93% of Benevity-ites agreed that after completing Launchpad, they felt confident starting in their specific role.
Designing impactful onboarding
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We include service as part of our learning and development approach, giving Benevity-ites hands-on experiences that grow skills while making an impact.
We invest $2,500 CAD, per Benevity-ite each year, earned through volunteer hours and reinvested into nonprofits they support, or used as matching funds to their own donations.
Investing in our people
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We introduced guidelines and experimented with how we use AI at Benevity to enhance our processes, unlock efficiency and create even more meaningful impact in 2025 — all while keeping purpose and people at the center.
43 developers leveraged “AIden CLI,” an AI-powered automation tool developed by Benevity-ite Adam Saturna, to deliver a 12–13x reduction in AI resource usage, accelerate tasks up to 10x faster and improve consistency to 100% compliance.
Leveraging AI as a team
We have developed a series of courses targeted at helping our people grow and succeed at different stages of their career.
Those who have completed our five-month Manager Essentials program saw an 83% increase in team productivity and 89% higher engagement.
Offering paths for continuous learning
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS
The value of learning and development (L&D): How AI is improving the way we work
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Owning your
own development
own development
AI experimentation
leading Hg entry
leading Hg entry
Going beyond learning to application
Building belonging
At Benevity, our employee and community groups are spaces for community, advocacy, learning and support. By leaning into this collective strength, we create a more inclusive workplace, build trust and bring purpose into everything we do.
Meet our employee & community groups
Learn more about how we support our people and build a fair, purpose-driven workplace on our careers page.
All Benevity Caregivers (ABCs)
Benev-ability (Mental Health & Accessibility)
BeneviQueers
Black Employee Network & Friends (BEN)
Chai @ Benevity
Christians in Prayer
Goodness Catalysts
Green Guardians
Indigenous Peoples + Allies
Pan Asian Community
Salam @ Benevity
Women @ Benevity
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SECTION 05: ENVIRONMENT
Protecting
our planet
Benevity is committed to reducing our environmental footprint through thoughtful operations, partnerships and innovation. We embed sustainability into how we work — and into how our platform helps organizations maximize their positive impact on our planet.
This year, in the face of threats to climate work, we saw support for environmental causes grow.
This year, in the face of threats to climate work, we saw support for environmental causes grow.
643K
volunteer hours went
to environmental causes
to environmental causes
$66M
dollars went to
environmental causes
environmental causes
(up 1.3% YoY)
*This category includes organizations dedicated to conserving, preserving and improving the environment, including natural resources, pollution control and beautification.
Our 2025 carbon footprint
When it comes to measuring and reducing our carbon footprint, our approach is one of continuous improvement across key areas such as data usage, supplier choices and office operations.
*tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent
Our climate
strategy is evolving
In 2025, we didn’t make as much progress as we had hoped, but we’re engaging new partners and carrying this work forward into 2026. As we look ahead, we’re taking a thoughtful, deliberate approach to shaping the best path for our climate strategy.
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Ways we’re reducing our environmental impact
Prioritizing greener spaces
We’re committed to high sustainability standards for all new office spaces. Our Calgary headquarters is a LEED Gold Certified building, recognized for energy efficiency, water conservation and sustainable design. Our Toronto office is located in an Oxford property recognized for world-class sustainability, holding multiple certifications including LEED EB Platinum, BOMA BEST Gold a BOMA Certificate of Excellence.
Optimizing for sustainability
Cost and environmental impact closely align with CPU use and power consumption. Given similar performance, accuracy and cost, we will select a vendor with a stronger sustainability policy.
Partnering with experts
In 2025, we signed on a new partner, Greenly, to manage our annual GHG assessments and provide a trusted source of environmental data and insights.
Facilitating more distributed work
Closing our Victoria, British Columbia office allowed us to support team members who prefer remote work while reducing our offices’ environmental footprint.
SECTION 06: RECONCILIATION
Advancing Indigenous inclusion
As a Canadian-founded global social enterprise with people located across the world, we acknowledge that we operate on the traditional territories of numerous Indigenous communities.
We recognize the historical and ongoing impacts of colonization on these lands and their peoples, and we are committed to deepening our understanding about the places where we work, strengthening our relationships with local Indigenous communities, and taking meaningful action toward reconciliation.
We honor and thank the Indigenous peoples who have cared for these lands for generations, and we acknowledge the ongoing contributions and presence of Indigenous communities here today.
$88M
donated to nonprofits that support Indigenous peoples and issues in 2025
on the Benevity platform.
+6.9% YoY
A land acknowledgement
Our Calgary headquarters resides on the traditional territories of the peoples of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta. This includes the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprising Siksika, Piikani, the Kainai Nations, the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, which include the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Goodstoney First Nations.
The City of Calgary is also home to the historic Northwest Métis and the Otipenisiwak Métis governments, Métis Nation Battle River Territory, Nose Hill Métis District 5 and Elbow Métis District 6, and we recognize their deep connections to this land.
Find out which territory you are on
Working with Indigenous communities
We work in partnership with Indigenous communities by building relationships on their terms — listening first, following community leadership, and centering Indigenous knowledge, rights and perspectives in our work.
Through our partnership with Howl, Star 6 Ranch, and Stoney Nakoda Elders Terry and Margaret Rider, we’ve moved beyond acknowledgment toward meaningful, land-based learning that supports cultural revitalization and reconciliation.
Through our partnership with Howl, Star 6 Ranch, and Stoney Nakoda Elders Terry and Margaret Rider, we’ve moved beyond acknowledgment toward meaningful, land-based learning that supports cultural revitalization and reconciliation.
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Learn more about Howl
Howl is a community learning organization partnering with Indigenous Elders and local communities offering hands-on programs in community building, climate action, ReconciliACTION, and personal resilience. Howl provides culturally respectful, trauma-informed experiences that help youth build life skills, leadership and purpose beyond conventional education.
Our Indigenous Peoples & Allies ERG
Our Indigenous Peoples & Allies employee resource group (ERG) is led by passionate advocates and allies across Benevity. Together, they create space for community-first thinking and meaningful learning, inviting Indigenous Ways of Knowing into the workplace and helping shape how we lead, collaborate, and show up every day.
Education, awareness and action
We educate our people and clients on Indigenous history, culture and reconciliation through campaign kits, company-wide conversations, and meaningful micro-actions tied to Indigenous History Month, Orange Shirt Day and Red Dress Day, which we activate internally through our MyGoodness Giving and Volunteering program.
At times, when I feel deflated by the issues of the world or unmotivated by a routine daily task, I reflect on the work I have done and will get to do with the Indigenous Peoples and Allies ERG. Formalizing the ERG was done out of the need to recognize a group of people and in doing so changed the entire space.
Kat Coulter
Senior Client Success Manager & ERG Lead of Indigenous Peoples & Allies, Benevity.
We’ve been a B Corp since 2011
We’ve been mission-driven since our inception in 2011. Benevity set out to disrupt the status quo of traditional philanthropy, fueled by a singular, bold conviction: that you can do well by doing good. We created a market and changed the way the world thinks about purpose at work.
For us, accountability isn't a burden — it’s an opportunity.
Our B Corp Score: 117.5
The minimum score required to become a certified B corporation: 80
The median score across all companies who have taken the B Impact Assessment (BIA): 50.9
Source: Certified B Corporation
As a benefit company, we’re committed to responsible and sustainable business practices while promoting public benefits.
Note: A Benefit Company (or benefit corporation) is a legal structure, while a Certified B Corp is a certification awarded by B Lab to companies meeting rigorous social and environmental performance standards.
Learn about our public benefit
Through our platform, we drive social impact by empowering companies to use their reach and resources to support their communities in multiple ways: community investment, coordinated volunteering and donation opportunities. Benevity supports more than two million nonprofits across a diverse range of causes, from humanitarian aid and the environment to education, social justice and cultural preservation. We also work closely with nonprofit partners to help amplify their reach and outcomes, while continually evolving and expanding the ways we deliver public impact.
Every benefit company's success is measured by evaluating its performance against its own goals, focusing on a commitment to public benefits and sustainable business practices. We assess our progress through goals that reflect our commitment to people, planet and purpose. That includes tracking outcomes related to employee engagement, charitable support and community development, and assessing opportunities to grow and improve.
To guide and develop our efforts, we’ve adopted the standards of the B Corporation certification.
SECTION 07: LOOKING AHEAD
2026: the power of proximity
Our team is proud to present Benevity’s 2025 Impact Report. This report reflects a commitment to our intentional purpose journey, rather than a declaration of perfect achievement on any dimension.
The results shared in this report were realized against a backdrop of incredible pressure for corporate purpose programs. Despite that backdrop, we were proud to facilitate almost 24 million volunteer hours and over $2.7 billion in total donations. These numbers are a powerful vote for consistency and care in an increasingly fractured and fraught world.
As we look toward 2026, the challenge is shifting. We are navigating a time of deep isolation and distrust. The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals seven in ten people now report an unwillingness to trust those who don’t share their values. This isn't just a social trend; it’s a breakdown of the shared reality required for progress.
Benevity is striving to meet this moment. We continue to lean into new ways of connecting employees to causes they care about, and nonprofits to companies that can support them. The UN has designated 2026 as the International Year of Volunteers, recognizing that service is one of the fastest ways to repair our societal connections. Benevity continues to elevate capabilities to bring service and the workplace together as a powerful avenue for societal repair.
Together, we can turn shared purpose into the foundation for a more connected future.
Soraya Alexander
CEO, Benevity
