Become a Kingdom Investor
Most giving is an act of trust at a distance. You believe in something, you fund it, and you let the people running it run it. That's a good thing to do, and most of what this organization needs is exactly that.
Funding It, or Building It
A Kingdom Investor is doing something different. Not more — different. They're taking a seat at the table.
What It Actually Involves
Two commitments, and both are real.
A substantial financial commitment. The threshold varies by enterprise, because the enterprises vary — but it's meaningful by design. A single significant gift qualifies; there's no requirement to give again on a schedule.
And a commitment of yourself. Genuine involvement in the work: a real voice in decisions, in some cases a seat on a board, your time, your judgement, and the people you know. If the first commitment arrives without the second, this isn't the right description of what's happening — it's simply a generous gift, and there's a page for that.
What Comes Back
Not money. There is no financial return, no equity, no principal repayment, and nothing to own. That isn't a limitation we're apologising for; it's the design. Nobody owns an Experiment Inc. enterprise, including the people who lead it. (Why → Ownership.) What comes back is co-stewardship, and it's more than it sounds like: A real voice in decisions that actually get made differently because you were in the room — not a
consultative newsletter with a survey attached.
Proximity to the people doing the work. The leadership here, and the team on the ground. You'll know them, and they'll know you, which is a different relationship than the one a donor usually gets offered.
A part in where profit goes. Because profit cycles back into the mission rather than out to owners, deciding where it cycles to is a genuine act of stewardship. Kingdom Investors take part in that.
One Thing This Is Not
Transparent reporting is not a Kingdom Investor benefit. Everyone who gives to Experiment Inc. gets the same honest account of what's working and what isn't. (How we measure, and the difference between discernment and judgement → Accountability and Measurement.) We mention it because tiered giving usually works by rationing access, and we don't want anyone reading this page to think the honest version of the story is behind a threshold. It isn't. What's
behind the threshold is responsibility, not information.
Who This Tends to Fit
People who have run something. People who've deployed capital before and found the returns less satisfying than they expected. People who have specific expertise or specific relationships that would genuinely change what an enterprise can do, and who would rather be used than thanked.
If you've read this far and it sounds like less than you hoped for — no return, nothing to own — then this probably isn't it, and that's a perfectly good outcome for both of us. If it sounds like more than you expected, we should talk.
number; a real conversation can't.*