The Center for Inclusive Growth advances equitable and sustainable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world. The Center leverages the company’s core assets and competencies, including data insights, expertise and technology, while administering the philanthropic Mastercard Impact Fund, to produce independent research, scale global programs and empower a community of thinkers, leaders and doers on the front lines of inclusive growth.

Doing well by doing good

From the founding of the Mastercard Foundation in 2006 through a gift of stock at the time of the company’s initial public offering to a business strategy for advancing financial inclusion, Mastercard has demonstrated a commitment to doing well by doing good.

In 2018, Mastercard committed 20 percent of its savings from U.S. and European tax reform to establish the Mastercard Impact Fund, a non-profit organization that will make up to $500 million in charitable grants. 

As the philanthropic hub of Mastercard, the Center leverages the company’s expertise, data analytics, technology and partnerships – and separately administers the Impact Fund – to advance actionable insights, global programs and thought leadership to achieve inclusive growth.