Your boutique
impact office.
For foundations, families, & purpose-driven investors.
The Practice
Every foundation, every fund, every trust has an origin story.
Someone's conviction that their resources could mean something beyond themselves. And now, that story is in your hands.
Whether through grants or investments, that story carries with it tremendous responsibility—and transformative possibility.
Quoin is a boutique impact practice that partners with foundations, families, and purpose-driven people who want to honor that responsibility, and realize that possibility.
The Thesis
Most institutions deploying capital can show where the money went. Quoin exists for the harder question: what did it produce — and how do you tell that story with clarity and conviction?
Quoin brings together rigorous assessment, grounded strategy, and bespoke narrative. Calibrated to your audience, your moment, and your landscape. Built to reflect the caliber of your work, whether or not you have a full team behind it.
About The Principal
Pedro H. da Silva built a career inside the institutions Quoin serves: nonprofits, philanthropic foundations, outsourced chief investment offices, and global advisory firms. He has designed impact investment portfolios, directed philanthropic initiatives, published environmental research, built editorial platforms, and served on several boards—spanning institutions managing a collective nearly $15 billion in purpose-aligned capital. He left to build what was missing.
Client Spotlight
A Community Foundation managing $300M in endowed, programmatic, and donor-advised assets engaged Quoin to design its impact methodology, apply it to its grantmaking portfolio, and produce its inaugural impact report. Now in its second year, the work is being referred across the sector.
Discover What Your Capital Can Do
Quoin works with clients who are public or private about their work, including community foundations, family foundations, individual investors, wealth advisors, and fund managers. You can learn more, and start a conversation, below.
Bespoke impact infrastructure, without building the team
For foundations, families, and investors that do not have dedicated impact or programmatic staff — or who simply don't want to build a team — Quoin is a full-service outsourced impact office.
Quoin develops strategy, conducts impact due diligence, provides ongoing assessment, and designs and produces your reporting and narratives. You can engage Quoin’s suite, or any single capability on its own. Quoin doesn't manage your assets; it measures, sharpens, and tells the story of what they achieve.
Impact Assessment & Management
Portfolio-level visibility into what your capital — philanthropic, invested, or in-between — truly delivers.
Whether building from scratch or refining what exists, Quoin’s insights evolve with your portfolio, building with each cycle and giving leadership the confidence to speak precisely about what their capital does and why it matters.
Strategic advisory
Where your capital should go, who's worth funding, and how to structure your approach.
Through moments of transition, inflection, and steady state, Quoin is a long-term partner for navigating what your capital can do.
Public Narrative & Communications
The story you need to tell — to the right people, in the right register, at the right moment. Quoin translates your impact, or your story, into the narratives you need for your family, your board, your donors, your LPs, or your community.
And when you’re ready, Quoin gets you in the room and in the conversation — the conferences, stages, and publications where your presence matters.
For advisors and allocators
Quoin also works behind the scenes — as the impact capability for wealth advisors, family offices, OCIOs, and fund managers who want to offer rigorous values-aligned services to their clients without building the function internally. A specialist resource that deepens your client relationships with no competitive conflict: Quoin advises on impact, never on assets.
