JFI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit applied research organization founded in 2014 by Bobby Jain. We work to create theory, policy designs, and practical tools that enable governments, public institutions, and regional coalitions to shape markets for the common good.

After more than ten years of work in applied social science and public-interest finance, the Jain Family Institute has sunset its operations as an independent organization.

Since our founding, JFI has worked to bring rigorous research to bear on real-world policy, contributing to some of the most consequential debates of the past decade and helping build the evidence base, tools, and partnerships that move them forward. That work has spanned guaranteed income, higher education finance and student debt, the governance of AI and the ethics of machine learning, global development and climate finance, and much more. We are enormously proud of what these initiatives have built.

The most meaningful measure of this work is that it will continue. JFI’s core initiatives will carry forward under new institutional homes:

•  The Social Wealth portfolio’s research and convening agenda is ongoing. For updates, please refer to the project page or contact Senior Vice President Paul Katz or Senior Research Associate Sina Sinai. 
•  The Minerals for Development team will continue working with key partners independently, moving forward core projects on mineral market transparency and resource governance. 
•   The Center for Active Stewardship continues its work under Executive Director Mikhael Gaster.
•  JFI’s Higher Education Finance work will continue independently under the leadership of Senior Fellow Marshall Steinbaum.
•  All other initiatives and historical work will remain archived on this site. For any questions, please contact us here.

JFI owes a debt of gratitude to the people and partners who made these initiatives possible: our researchers, writers, and staff who built our culture; the collaborators who took a chance on ambitious ideas; and the supporters whose generosity made a decade of independent, public-interest research possible. Thank you.

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CURRENT INITIATIVES

Financing the Energy Transition

Social Wealth

Minerals for Development

The Center for Active Stewardship (CAS)

OUR TOOLS

TRANSITION CRITICAL MINERALS

LEVELIZED COST OF ENERGY

FEMCI

SPLICE

Our tools include models we’ve built for social wealth fund management, microsimulations for advising on tax policy, analysis of credit bureau data to understand the student debt crisis, and more.