As Director of Impact Investments, Tracy Kartye leads the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s impact investment portfolio for which Casey has allocated 4% of its endowment to projects that achieve financial returns — as well as social benefits — to build a brighter future for children, families and communities in the United States.
Since joining Casey in 2005, Kartye has managed investments of more than $150 million in projects and nonprofit organizations across the country. These efforts have leveraged more than $1 billion for thousands of new jobs, affordable housing units and community facilities in local communities. Kartye has a strong background in community and economic development, working for the Local Initiatives Support Corp. in Houston, Texas, and the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corp. in Brooklyn, New York, before joining the Foundation.
She sits on the boards of Episcopal Housing Corporation and Healthy Neighborhoods in Baltimore. She is a graduate of Hendrix College and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.