Financial endowment

=== Endowment repatriation ===
Critics like Justice Funders' Dana Kawaoka-Chen call for "redistributing all aspects of well-being, democratizing power, and shifting economic control to communities.".<ref>{{cite journal | title =What Do Our Times Require? Funders Propose a Philanthropic "Green New Deal" |journal = Nonprofit Quarterly | date = March 12, 2019 |url=https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2019/03/12/what-do-our-times-require-funders-propose-a-philanthropic-green-new-deal/ }}</ref> Endowment repatriation refers to campaigns that acknowledge the history of human and natural resource exploitation that is inherent to many large private funds. Repatriation campaigns ask for private endowments to be returned to the control of the people and communities that have been most affected by labor and environmental exploitation and often offer ethical frameworks for discussing endowment governance and repatriation.<ref name="justicefunders.org">{{cite web |title=The Resonance Framework: Guiding Principals and Values |url=http://justicefunders.org/resonance/guiding-values-principles/ |website=Justice Funders |access-date=19 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190519032843/http://justicefunders.org/resonance/guiding-values-principles/|archive-date=19 May 2019}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web |title=Linden Endowment Repatriation Broadside v1.3 |url=http://endowmentrepatriation.org |access-date=19 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190519033340/https://endowmentrepatriation.org/|archive-date=19 May 2019}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=Many might say that, by definition, philanthropy is about redistributing resources. Yet to truly embody this principle, philanthropy must move far beyond the 5% payout requirements for grants and distribute ALL of its power and resources. This includes spending down one's endowment, investing in local and regional economic initiatives that build community wealth rather than investing in Wall Street, giving up decision-making power for grants, and, ultimately, turning over assets to community control.<ref name="justicefunders.org">{{cite web |title=The Resonance Framework: Guiding Principals and Values |url=http://justicefunders.org/resonance/guiding-values-principles/ |website=Justice Funders |access-date=19 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190519032843/http://justicefunders.org/resonance/guiding-values-principles/|archive-date=19 May 2019}}</ref>|source=Justice Funders}}

After the Heron Foundation's internal audit of its investments in 2011 uncovered an investment in a private prison that was directly contrary to the foundation's mission, they developed and then began to advocate for a four-part ethical framework to endowment investments conceptualized as Human Capital, 
Natural Capital, Civic Capital, and Financial Capital.<ref>{{cite web |title=Introduction to Net Contribution |url=https://www.heron.org/intro-net-contribution |website=Heron Foundation |access-date=19 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190519032324/https://www.heron.org/intro-net-contribution|archive-date=19 May 2019}}</ref>

Another example is the [[Ford Foundation]]'s co-founding of the independent [[Native Arts and Culture Foundation]] in 2007. The Ford Foundation provided a portion of the initial endowment after self-initiated research into the foundation's financial support of Native and Indigenous artists and communities.  This results of this research indicated "the inadequacy of philanthropic support for Native arts and artists", related feedback from an unnamed Native leader that "[o]nce [big foundations] put the stuff in place for an Indian program, then it is not usually funded very well. It lasts as long as the program officer who
had an interest and then goes away" and recommended that an independent endowment be established and that "[n]ative leadership is crucial".<ref>{{cite web |title=Native Arts and Cultures: Research, Growth and Opportunities for Philanthropic Support |url=https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/1758/2010-native-arts-and-cultures.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513142508/https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/1758/2010-native-arts-and-cultures.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-05-13 |publisher=Ford Foundation |access-date=13 May 2019 |date=2010}}</ref>