Bridging Financial Integrity with Human Impact.
Charity Spark Investment is a financial-grade platform dedicated to vetting, verifying, and funding high-impact NGOs through rigorous transparency standards.
Our Core Thesis
"We believe that trust is the ultimate currency of social change. By applying financial-grade audits to philanthropic endeavors, we ignite a spark of sustainable growth in communities worldwide."
The Vision
To become the global benchmark for NGO transparency, ensuring no worthy cause remains underfunded due to a lack of verifiable data.
The Mission
Streamlining the flow of capital to vetted social projects through technology and rigorous accountability frameworks.
Executive Summary:
The Genesis of Charity Spark
Founded in 2018, Charity Spark emerged as a response to the systemic inefficiencies within the global philanthropic sector. Our founders, veterans of institutional finance, observed a critical 'transparency gap'—where capital was plentiful, but trust was scarce.
We reimagined the NGO-donor relationship as a strategic investment. Our methodology integrates quantitative financial analysis with qualitative human impact metrics, creating a dual-layered reporting structure that satisfies both the head and the heart.
Today, Charity Spark serves as a conduit for institutional and private investors who demand the same level of accountability from their social contributions as they do from their market portfolios.
"Data-driven empathy is at the heart of our vetting process. We look beyond the spreadsheets to find the spark of real human potential."
Management Team
Leading the convergence of finance and social impact.
The Strategic Lead
Mnqobi Shoba
Director | Strategy & Governance
Mnqobi specializes in the intersection of community-rooted leadership and governance-focused investment strategy. With a background in international market engagement, he leads Charity Spark’s strategic vision—overseeing the 140-point NGO evaluation model. His expertise lies in identifying operational resilience and ensuring that philanthropic capital is deployed via transparent, high-accountability funding models that prioritize long-term scalability.
The Infrastructure Lead
Sebastien Summerfield
Director | Impact Infrastructure
Sebastien brings a multidisciplinary approach to asset management and strategic investment. Drawing on a legacy of enterprise integrity, he focuses on transforming grassroots organizations into sustainable institutions through rigorous operational stress-testing. Sebastien bridges international networks with local social projects, ensuring that every partnership meets strict global compliance standards and delivers verifiable human impact.
The Operations Lead
Thingo Shoba
Chief Operating Officer | Compliance & Performance
Thingo is an expert in operational excellence and systems management. Having held leadership roles within Africa’s largest telecommunications firm, she specializes in high-volume financial oversight and team development. At Charity Spark, she spearheads the "Radical Transparency" framework—implementing outcome-oriented reporting that tracks fund-flow, beneficiary reach, and governance compliance to ensure total stakeholder trust.
Compliance
Lavinia Bofan
Architect of the Spark-Chain™ transparent ledger system.