We inherit more than assets. We inherit ways of knowing. Ways of caring for one another. Ways of making something from what we have. We inherit memory, responsibility, and the quiet wisdom of women who understood stewardship long before it was called wealth management. There is something within us that already knows.
Matrilineal Money is an invitation to return to that knowing. To ask what becomes possible when women move capital from a place grounded in our values, our histories, our power, and our responsibility to those who come next.
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 | 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
MacArthur Foundation: Level Five Space
140 South Dearborn Street, Suite 1200
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Who We Are
Bold Ventures, a reparative philanthropic advisory firm, and RUNWAY Roots, a reparative investment fund, are working together to challenge that narrative and reimagine how women understand, direct, and move resources.
Why Matrilineal Money?
Matrilineal Money is about changing the lineage of capital, bringing giving and investing back into relationship and moving resources with intention. Remembering where we come from while taking responsibility for where our money goes next.
We’re inspired and informed by the generations of women who have carried capital in forms that the balance sheet doesn’t capture: mutual aid, informal lending circles, land held in trust for grandchildren not yet born, businesses built to outlast their founders. This inheritance is a financial strategy rooted in power and prosperity.
Yet the systems that move institutional capital rarely learn from this wisdom, and the people who practice it are rarely asked to lead. When we move capital the way we pass down lineage, we build wealth that remembers where it came from and remains accountable to where it is going.
What We're Exploring
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Many women inherit wealth through trust structures explicitly designed to limit their agency—granting them income to spend philanthropically but withholding control over the principal. Family offices and advisory relationships were historically built by and for men, often with the assumption that women lacked the expertise or interest to engage in "complex" investment decisions. When women raise concerns to advisors about portfolio alignment away from fossil fuels, private prisons and other extractive industries the response, more often than not, is: "Let's focus on your charitable giving. That's where you can make an impact." The message is deliberate: Investment decisions are technical, complex, beyond your instincts.
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The legacy of money and capital movement celebrates the bold, the bullish, the disruptive. Matriarchal money offers a different posture: the reparative, the relational, the restorative. It’s not about making money and then doing something charitable with it. It’s about acknowledging that how you make money and where it came from determines what kind of future you’re building.
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Generation after generation, women with genuine values and genuine capital have been allowed to give with intention while being quietly kept from investing with intention. The money flows out in grants to organizations fighting injustice, and flows back in through investments in the very systems creating that injustice.
Reparative capital is a liberation framework that refuses the separation between “giving” and “investing.” It calls for the intentional redistribution of wealth and power to address historic and ongoing harms, centering the wisdom, leadership, and lived experiences of communities systematically excluded from decision-making and resource allocation.
Over the next two decades, an estimated $90 trillion will change hands in the largest wealth transfer to women in history. By 2030, for the first time in U.S. history, women are projected to control most of the wealth in this country.
The Opportunity
For generations, women have stewarded families and communities, held resources together, created abundance in the midst of scarcity, and imagined futures beyond what was available to them. And yet the formal systems of wealth and investment were largely built without our voices, our wisdom, or our ways of understanding what resources are for.
This moment asks something different of us.
What would our grandmothers have wanted us to do with what we now hold? What harms are ours to repair? What possibilities are ours to fund? And what do we want the women who come after us to inherit not only in assets, but in power, freedom, and possibility? We are also exploring:
Join Us in Chicago
The Matrilineal Money Series begins during SOCAP week.
Join us for this intimate gathering about what we have inherited, what we are being called to repair, and what we intend to leave behind.
MacArthur Foundation: Level Five Space
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Space is limited — RSVP early to secure your spot.
Stories From the Field
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Black History Is Economic History: A Charge Toward Black Futures
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Now Is the Time: A Policy Playbook for State and Local Action That Builds Black Wealth in the South (2026)
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The South Has Something to Say: COVID-19 and Our Chance for Transformation
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Believe-in-You Money: What Would the Economy Look Like If It Loved Black People? (2023)
Get connected.
Every shift in how capital moves has required people willing to ask new questions before the answers were settled.
This briefing is the first of many.
Whether you lead a foundation, family office, fund, or community institution, your presence at the table shapes what gets carried forward. Get updates on our series and how we're moving capital for lineage, legacy, and liberation.