Despite billions of dollars in public and philanthropic investment aimed at equity, there is no centralized system to track how capital is flowing to racial wealth-building initiatives in local communities. The Center for Wealth Equity @ Living Cities  has identified this as a critical barrier: capital decision-makers lack a baseline understanding of where capital is going, what gaps exist, and what strategies are working. A centralized, user-friendly tracker would help funders, governments, and financial institutions make smarter, more aligned decisions to close racial wealth gaps. 

Scoping & Stakeholder Alignment: Conduct an initial meeting with CWE leadership to define success criteria, priority cities or funders, and target users of the tracker.Landscape Scan & Data Identification: Identify and catalog accessible public datasets (e.g., IRS 990s, CRA lending data, city budgets, open philanthropy databases).

Data Collection & Structuring: Scrape/download, clean and standardize data fields (e.g., geography, type of capital, target population, use of funds).

Prototype Design & Visualization: Develop a working prototype using a visualization platform like Tableau, Power BI, or open-source tools (e.g., D3.js or Leaflet).Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Prepare a final report detailing the data model, visualization logic, and use cases.

A minimum viable product (MVP) that maps racial equity-focused investments in at least 5 U.S. cities or funders.

A cleaned, tagged dataset of investments, sourced from publicly available data 

A set of 3–5 strategic recommendations based on the analysis, identifying investment gaps, misalignments, or areas for coordination across sectors.