What we’re building

We move trusted capital to the people regenerating their bioregions — and help them build what keeps it flowing.

Kinship Earth began by reigniting Susan Davis Moora’s KINS Innovation Networks — self-organizing circles of high-integrity leaders from widely different fields, working from a strategy of generosity to drive social, economic, and environmental change. Susan was one of Marion Rockefeller Weber’s original flow-funding recipients, and what she built with that trust shaped our path. Our board chose flow funding as the way to make an impact — and since the end of 2024 we’ve moved trust-based, unrestricted capital to grassroots bioregional leaders.

Now we’re evolving. Communities need more than capital. They need capacity — the structures, tools, stories, and infrastructure to steward their own futures. Wherever you sit — funder, builder, storyteller, neighbor — there’s a way in.

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Since we began deploying flow funds

$360K+

moved to grassroots leaders

23

Flow Funders across 3 cohorts

30+

bioregions reached

Trust-based, unrestricted, peer-nominated — since the end of 2024

How we’re building capacity

We don’t own the infrastructure these point toward. Communities do.

Our work is to help them build it, and to step back once they have. These five realms run alongside our grantmaking — sometimes ahead of it, not only after. Each stands on its own; together they’re a living system.

1 Venture Philanthropy

Making the flow fund self-sustaining.

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4 Bioregional Activations

Helping regions organize, govern, and resource themselves.

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2 Flow Funding Playbooks

Open-access guides for communities and funders.

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5 Bioregional Storytelling

Communities own their stories; we help them travel.

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3 Digital Infrastructure

See your capital at work, without burdening communities.

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Venture Philanthropy

Building a self-sustaining flow fund

Today, 100% of our operating revenue comes from donations. Every dollar of overhead is a dollar that doesn’t reach a Flow Funder — and our work rides on donor moods we can’t control.

We’re changing that. Within five years, we want less than half of our operating revenue to come from traditional grants. The rest comes from three pillars:

A venture philanthropy arm — capital designed to come back and fund the next community: recoverable grants, catalytic first-loss capital, and Program Related Investments (PRIs) that draw on our private-foundation status.

Earned revenue — paid consulting and training paired with the playbooks, fiscal sponsorship fees, ticketed convenings, and eventual licensing of our digital tools.

Community-sourced capital — pooled contributions from the communities our work serves.

A PRI is a low-interest or recoverable investment a foundation makes from its own funds. It counts toward the required 5% annual distribution while putting impact ahead of return.

Our guardrails are non-negotiable: capital stays patient, below-market, and mission-aligned. Playbooks stay free. Flow Funds stay unrestricted.

Plug in if you're

A funder or family office exploring PRIs, recoverable grants, or below‑market regenerative capital
A funder interested in helping seed catalytic, recyclable capital alongside us
An advisor who can introduce us to aligned capital allocators

Read the venture philanthropy memo →

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Flow Funding Playbooks

Closing the gap between funders and communities

We’re publishing two companion playbooks — free, open access, both targeting Q4 2026 with a launch aimed at the Turtle Island Congress in September.

The Bioregional Flow Funding Playbook — for communities ready to launch a Flow Fund. Roughly 70% drafted, built from three cohorts of operational experience.

The Bioregional Flow Fueling Playbook — peer-to-peer guidance from one foundation to another: DAF, family-office, and foundation pathways, board-ready grant language, due-diligence summaries, and PRI guidance. Fully outlined.

The point is leverage. One community playbook can catalyze dozens of bioregional Flow Funds; one funder playbook can redirect millions toward trust-based models.

Production covers writing, design, legal review, template toolkits, Spanish translation, and print plus digital distribution. Total budget: $150K–$200K.

Why this matters: when a community builds its own vehicle to receive and move capital, money stops passing through distant gatekeepers and starts flowing on the community’s own terms. Every new trust-based fund shifts resources toward the people closest to the work — and that shift, repeated across bioregions, is where systemic change and lasting healing actually take hold.

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A funder willing to co-author or contribute case studies from your own trust-based vehicle
A funder ready to underwrite production, in full or as a sponsor
A community organizer or legal practitioner with templates, frameworks, or governance models to share
A translator, designer, or editor who wants to shape the open-access edition

Contribute to the playbooks

Underwrite production

Digital Financial Infrastructure

See your capital at work — without burdening the communities it reaches

Funders want accountability. Communities can’t absorb heavy reporting. We’re co-developing the rails that solve both — automatically. The stack has four parts:

Pooled Funds & Vaults organized by bioregion, mapping cleanly to DAF workflows.

Commitments — public pledges, backed by deposits, that communities can plan around.

Predictable Disbursement — steady, scheduled funding that replaces the lump-sum feast-and-famine cycle.

Impact Credentials — lightweight, verifiable records of work done, so reporting doesn’t fall on the grantee.

A note on the tech: we use digital ledgers as transparency rails, not as anything to speculate on. An “impact credential” is simply a tamper-proof record of who did what work, when, and to what effect — so funders can see results without communities filling out forms.

We build this with aligned partners and roll it out in phases: Prove (2026) → Pilot (late 2026 / early 2027) → Scale (2027 onward) — open-sourcing it, in time, for community-launched Flow Funds.

Plug in if you're:

A DAF sponsor, foundation, or family office wanting verifiable transparency on bioregional flows
A protocol team, builder, or researcher working on verifiable impact reporting or regenerative finance
A pilot community ready to test the infrastructure in your bioregion
A funder ready to underwrite the Prove or Pilot phase

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Co-build with us

Bioregional Activations & Planetary Parties

Helping bioregions organize, govern, and resource themselves

A Bioregional Activation is a living, co-created process that helps the people of a place build the relationships, governance, tools, and capacity to attract and steward resources for their own bioregion. It’s not a single event but a journey — co-stewarded with Susanna Choe of Bioregional Embassy, moving from online preparation into in-person gatherings at local hubs.

Six pillars guide every activation:

Relationship-building and mapping

Governance education

Tools, tech, and frameworks

Healing and conflict transformation

Honoring place — the Indigenous traditions of that specific bioregion

Culture, arts, and storytelling

Our role is to amplify and resource what’s already alive in a place — not to prescribe a model or plant a flag. We’re developing trainings and open curricula so any community can run an activation themselves.

Out of each activation, a bioregion grows what it needs to attract and steward its own resources — a trust-based fund of its own, shared local agreements for pooling time, skills, land, and capital, the beginnings of land-based hubs, and a culture of collaboration that outlasts any single gathering. There’s much more to how this works in practice — link: read the full Bioregional Activations page.

Underneath every activation is the Planetary Party Protocol — a shared protocol and process we co-create with each community and move through together.

The Planetary Party Protocol is the coordination architecture underneath: a five-phase rhythm (Sense → See → Flow → Celebrate → Regenerate), nine coordinating guilds, intelligence dashboards, and a “leave a positive trace” festival model. Kinship Earth is its fiscal sponsor. Every party showcases local and global solutions and leaves lasting infrastructure behind — gardens, governance, water systems, coordination tech, unlocked capital.

Active in 2026

NE Turtle Island — starting in the Hudson Valley (Spring 2026), in partnership with Bioregional Embassy, honoring the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace around the US 250th

Mexico Cloud Forest & Mexico City (Fall 2026)

On the horizon: Cascadia, Greater Tkaronto, Colombia, Montego Bay, Costa Rica.

Plug in if you're:

A funder ready to underwrite a specific bioregional activation
A community, hub, or convener in one of the active or upcoming bioregions
A practitioner across any of the six pillars
A festival organizer or guild member ready to plug into the PPP

Sponsor an activation

Bring one to your bioregion

Bioregional Storytelling

Storytelling as infrastructure

Storytelling isn’t the last step — it can begin long before any grant moves. We help communities and groups tell the story of the work they’re already doing, so it can travel: drawing attention, building trust, and pulling financial resources toward the people and places that need them most.

That support takes a few forms:

Storytelling support for groups and leaders — sometimes a group simply needs help telling its story. We help shape, produce, and share it, whether or not they’re part of a Bioregional Activation.

Documenting a Bioregional Activation — when we’re walking a full activation with a community, we can capture the journey too: short clips, mid-form segments, and eventually a long-form documentary.

Local filmmaker partnerships — embedded in a place: sourcing existing footage, commissioning new work, and routing resources into local creative economies.

The ownership principle is firm: bioregional groups own their stories. We aggregate, post-produce, and distribute — the narrative stays with the community, and shared assets serve both the bioregion’s fundraising and ours.

First focus: NE Turtle Island and Mexico Cloud Forest. We’re fundraising to bring this to more bioregions, and seeking a dedicated storytelling lead and the content infrastructure to aggregate and distribute.

There’s more to how this works in practice — link: read the full Bioregional Storytelling page.

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