Missio Invest
Missio Invest Social Impact Fund

Missio Invest, founded in 2014 by the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States (TPMS-US), the US branch of the Catholic Church’s global development organization. Missio is an evergreen fund focused on investing in church-owned and church affiliated agribusinesses and other impactful enterprises in Sub Saharan Africa. As the Catholic Church operates around 7.3k health facilities and 45k primary schools in the region, many of which are attached to farmable land, the scope and scale of potential impact is vast. Missio not only delivers lending capital to these enterprises, but also provides technical assistance to support agricultural and operational success. Missio has built a thoughtful, catalytic blended capital structure with a significant equity layer contributed by TPMS-US and six other Church affiliated organizations. This strong equity foundation has allowed for a large, $20M senior lending commitment from the US DFC, as well as junior, subordinate lending opportunities for lenders such as Ceniarth. We closed a $500K commitment to the fund in 2022.