Praxis Investment Management released its annual Real Impact Report 2025, detailing how the faith-based investment manager creates tangible impact through stewardship investing. The sixth edition of the report provides facts, figures, and examples of how the firm's strategies generate real-world results while aligning investments with values.
"More than ever, we think it's important to leverage as many impact strategies as possible," writes Praxis President Chad Horning, CFA in the report's introduction. The firm's work spans global advocacy and corporate engagement while simultaneously touching specific communities through targeted investment approaches. The report organizes this work around seven distinct impact strategies that comprise the Praxis ImpactX framework.
Values and risk screening excludes 3.8-23.4% of companies in Praxis stock indices based on alignment with core principles. Proxy voting represents another significant avenue for influence, with Praxis voting on nearly 18,000 proposals on behalf of shareholders in 2025. Beyond exclusionary screening, the firm practices sustainability integration by investing in or increasing weight in companies that better represent its values.
Positive impact bonds represent 35% of holdings in the diversified Praxis Impact Bond Fund as of December 31, 2025, specifically targeting socially or environmentally beneficial projects. Direct company engagement involved discussions with over 20 companies on issues ranging from human rights and child labor to environmental stewardship. Advocacy and education efforts included participation in Freedom to Investment, which outlines why investors consider financially material factors including environmental and human rights impacts.
Community development investing represents a significant commitment, with Praxis investing more than $25.8 million in partnership with Calvert Impact and Capital Impact Partners as of December 2025. "2025 was a big year for Praxis—we launched our first two ETFs and published research that proved what we know to be true: that investors want to align their faith with their values," said Mark Regier, Vice President of Stewardship Investing.
The report's release comes as interest in values-aligned investing continues to grow, with investors increasingly seeking to ensure their financial decisions reflect their ethical and religious convictions. Praxis's detailed reporting provides transparency about how faith-based principles translate into concrete investment actions and measurable outcomes. The firm's approach demonstrates that impact investing can operate at multiple levels simultaneously, from global corporate engagement to local community development.
Investors interested in reviewing the complete findings can download the report at https://www.praxisinvests.com/insights/RIR2025. The document includes both quantitative metrics and qualitative examples of how stewardship investing creates change across different sectors and communities. This comprehensive reporting reflects growing demand for accountability and transparency in impact investing, particularly within faith-based financial circles where alignment between values and actions is paramount.
