LP Directory

About the data

Each kind of LP reports differently, and an LP’s page says what its amounts are. Foundations list each holding’s book value and year-end fair market value on Form 990-PF (Part II, lines 13 and 15); they don’t report commitments or returns, and some report only category totals. Public pension plans, endowments, state and sovereign funds, development finance institutions, and government funds of funds publish their own fund-level reports: most give commitments, and often cash flows and returns; some give only market values, and a few only the names of the funds. Registered funds report the value of each private fund they hold to the SEC on Form N-PORT. Insurers list their interests in private funds, at carrying value, on Schedule BA of the annual statement they file with their state regulator. Corporate and union pension plans, and the master trusts that hold several plans’ assets, list partnership interests, at current value, on the schedule of assets attached to Form 5500.

A fund counts as venture when its manager is in the fund index or the venture adviser directory, or, on a foundation’s return, when it is named as a venture fund; funds are linked to managers by name, and a match can be wrong. “In venture funds” adds up what an LP reports for those funds, in whatever terms it reports them, so it compares LPs of one kind better than LPs of different kinds. An LP is “still adding venture funds” when its latest report shows a fund from the last three years or one that wasn’t on the report before. Organizations only: no individuals are listed. To have a foundation removed, see Remove my information.

Data feeds: latest LP reports (RSS) · the directory as CSV · recent LP commitments (RSS, CSV).