Your one stop for impact tracking and data storytelling
ImpactMapper helps donors, nonprofits, and corporations on the cutting edge of impact assess, learn, and communicate their work.
Consulting work we can support you with:
Evaluations, Research & Reports
We lead custom research and evaluations and produce in-depth evaluations or research of programme or grantmaking portfolios, strategy assessments, and CSR reports.
Impact Framework & Metrics
We help you develop or refine your Theory of Change, taxonomies, impact metrics and reporting forms in alignment with your strategic and learning needs.
Impact Stories & Case Studies
We create stories and case studies to profile groups' key achievements visually. We bring diverse data streams together with data from different sources to tell visually compelling stories.
Synthesis & Meta Evaluations
Our team engages in research synthesis work and meta-evaluations. We have experience in synthesizing insights across multiple evaluations, research reports or grantee reports and creating learning products that support diverse stakeholders.
Knowledge Briefs
We support the development of lessons learned and knowledge briefs for donors, networks, academia, and nonprofits.
Custom Trainings
We lead custom trainings to support your team’s monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) and storytelling and learning skills. See more on this work here.
Trusted by leading brands
Learn more about our client work and case studies here.
Products we have produced:
Meta-Synthesis
We served as research and synthesis leads for the Spotlight Initiative to End Violence Against Women and Girls, a global partnership spanning multiple countries and agencies. Our role included reviewing and synthesizing hundreds of program documents, conducting cross-regional analysis, and translating complex, multi-layered implementation data into strategic insight for senior leadership. This work required balancing accountability to donors with movement-centered interpretation and resulted in Board- and senior leadership-facing knowledge products. We developed and designed this report.
Knowledge Brief
Since 2025, we have been working with CLF as a MEL partner to strengthen their approach to impact measurement, learning, and storytelling for their grantmaking in climate justice. We have revised their impact framework, developed new outcomes and metrics, and updated their grantee reporting processes, with the goal of making them more streamlined, story-driven, and reflective of the complexity of climate resilience work. We produced a Climate Solutions Knowledge Brief and series of case studies that draw from grantee insights and evidence to surface emerging strategies, innovations, and systemic challenges.
Evaluation
We supported the Spotlight Initiative team in 2025 and created a sustainability report. The report was produced by analyzing interviews, country and regional program documents, and results, and synthesizing if and how results were sustained after the first phase of the program ended. A Sustainable Legacy. Insights and Evidence from Seed Investments to End Violence Against Women.
Impact Report
Charge Incubator based in Oslo, Norway hired ImpactMapper to conduct an assessment of the impact of their incubator program from 2017-2020. The ImpactMapper team, conducted interviews with a sample of companies and startup ecosystem actors in addition to collecting data from the companies through the ImpactMapper survey tool. The analysis resulted in the following
Impact Report
ImpactMapper produced The Key to Change: Women's Movement Building and the SDGs project which showcases the power of women's movement in contributing to the SDGs and creating lasting impact. It is a first-of-its-kind report, database, and advocacy tool culminating from our partnership with 217 women's rights and movement-building organizations across 56 countries who shared their stories, challenges, and successes. It provides an example of a report and landing page that ImpactMapper can produce on a funding portfolio or research topic. We developed and designed this report.
Evaluation
ImpactMapper completed a synthesis evaluation of 57 country UNFPA program reports to take stock of lessons learned around three transformative results: ending maternal mortality, eliminating gender based violence and harmful practices and ensuring access to family planning. The synthesis findings were launched at UNFPA’s 50th anniversary and shed light on UNFPA’s global impact and lessons learned.
Case studies we have developed:
Pastoral Women's Council
FemLENS
International Women's Development Agency
Why hire us?
Values Driven
UNDP, UNESCO, Equality Fund, Chanel Foundation, Porticus, Spotlight Initiative, INGKA-IKEA, WINGS and European Union, BEA Fund, UNFPA, Great Plains Housing Initiative, are just a few of the organizations who have trusted us with their evaluation work. We know the unique needs of the sector and share your values.
UNDP, UNESCO, Equality Fund, Chanel Foundation, Porticus, Spotlight Initiative, INGKA-IKEA, WINGS and European Union, BEA Fund, UNFPA, Great Plains Housing Initiative, are just a few of the organizations who have trusted us with their evaluation work. We know the unique needs of the sector and share your values.
Participatory
We use a participatory listening approach in all of our engagements to ensure we tailor and align the process and products to your organization’s unique needs and institutional culture. All of our evaluation and MEL engagements begin with a data audit. This consists of a desk review of what you already collect, followed by a working session with your team to name strengths, gaps, and priorities together. Recommendations from here are built around your actual data and custom needs, not a cookie cutter approach.
We use a participatory listening approach in all of our engagements to ensure we tailor and align the process and products to your organization’s unique needs and institutional culture. All of our evaluation and MEL engagements begin with a data audit. This consists of a desk review of what you already collect, followed by a working session with your team to name strengths, gaps, and priorities together. Recommendations from here are built around your actual data and custom needs, not a cookie cutter approach.
Mixed Method Specialists
Our approach turns narrative data (interviews, focus groups, grantee reports, research, open-ended survey responses) into structured, aggregate, and visual insights alongside your financial and quantitative metrics. This way your full impact story stays intact and is aligned with your Strategic Plan, Theory of Change, or other institutional frameworks. This way all of your data is used and analyzed, not only your quantitative and financial data with merely a scan of the text data you have.
Useable Products
We prioritize understanding the audience(s) for the products that we produce for you to ensure the work has uptake and does not just sit on the shelf-- from evaluation or research, knowledge briefs, impact metrics for your Theory of Change or Strategic plan, to custom dashboards for your board. We ensure there is a clear narrative built to communicate impact clearly, and often even work with communications teams to help share the work externally.
Capacity Builder
We offer diverse and custom trainings for your team when you need it, from survey design, qualitative coding and analysis, creating effective data dashboards, or evidence based storytelling to name a few. Our hands-on training uses your own data, so your team walks away able to do the work themselves.
MEL Partner
Many organizations come to us for multi-year MEL or Learning Partnership engagements to support their team as their embedded MEL team. Some organizations have a small internal MEL team and need extra support over the year, which we provide on a custom basis. We have been a MEL partner for Porticus, Clara Lionels Foundation, Malala Fund, BEA Fund, to name a few. Read more on our blog here.
Diverse Expertise
With 20+ years of experience in data analysis, storytelling, gender perspectives and participatory methods, our team is known for consistently delivering insightful, and engaging reports and products in a timely manner. We have multiple PhDs on our team with expertise across a variety of domain subjects including gender equity, social justice, human rights, environmental justice, climate, disaster response and recovery, education, health, VAWG, peacebuilding, philanthropy, CSR and impact investments, technology, responsible AI, and custom software development.
Impact Tracking Software
We use our own robust mixed-method ImpactMapper software, designed specifically for the impact sector, to turn your data into clear insights and engaging data visualizations and trends. We use our tool because it brings efficiencies that no other software tool on the market can bring to analysis of your financial, quantitative and text data. This means all of your data is systematically analyzed, not just briefly scanned as with other consultants. This is especially true for your qualitative data. Likely your organization has never done a full analysis of all of your data before. The value for money of working with ImpactMapper is unparalleled. You have access to all data analyzed (both quantitative and qualitative) after our engagement through a csv export. If you like the software you can continue on with it to support your future impact tracking. All of your past data is already in the system for over time analysis. Win-win either way!
Methodological Resources
Key insights, lessons learned, and methodological reflections from our team members on client work.
Lessons Learned
Jun 24, 2026
How-To Build More Inclusive MEL Processes to Help End Violence Against Women and Girls
Insights
Dec 11, 2025
Insights from the Sustainability Analysis for Spotlight Initiative
Methodology
Dec 10, 2024
Methodological Reflections on Creating the Compendium of Innovative and Good Practices and Lessons Learned for Spotlight Initiative
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