New webinar on 3rd March 2026 | 9:00 am PT
In this webinar, discover how Sopact Sense revolutionizes data collection and analysis.
The IMP framework — What, Who, How Much, Contribution, Risk — operationalized at outcome, enterprise, and portfolio level. By Sopact.
The Impact Management Project (IMP) brought more than 2,000 organizations together to converge on a single language for measuring impact. The Five Dimensions of Impact — What, Who, How Much, Contribution, and Risk — became its centerpiece. Almost every serious fund now references the framework. Almost none has the data infrastructure to score against all five dimensions with cross-portfolio consistency. The gap between adopting the IMP framework and operating it is where Sopact Sense lives.
A framework is a question structure. The questions only become operational when the evidence requirement and the common failure mode behind each are made explicit.
Which outcome is the enterprise contributing to, and how important is that outcome to the people experiencing it?
Who experiences the outcome, and how underserved are they relative to it?
How many people experienced the outcome (scale), what magnitude of change did they experience (depth), and how durable was the change (duration)?
Did the enterprise's effort produce outcomes that were likely better than what would have occurred otherwise?
What is the likelihood that the impact will be different from expectations, and across which categories of risk?
A framework PDF gets you a question structure. Operating it requires three artifacts, kept current and connected. Most funds maintain all three — in disconnected forms.
What activities produce what outputs, what outputs lead to what outcomes, which outcomes the enterprise is accountable for. Anchors the What dimension.
Field-by-field definition of what counts as evidence for each outcome. Every field has a definition, a unit, an evidence requirement. Anchors Who and How Much.
Mapping from data dictionary fields and ToC outcomes to a fund-specific 0–3 score on each dimension. Closes Contribution and Risk.
The three pillars only work as a system. Sopact Sense holds ToC, Data Dictionary, and the Five Dimensions rubric as connected layers in one infrastructure — not three documents stored in three places.
Most funds can apply the Five Dimensions to a single outcome. Few can normalize across an enterprise. Almost none can normalize across a portfolio. Each level requires the same data dictionary, ToC structure, and rubric to run consistently.
The three pillars must be the same artifact at outcome, enterprise, and portfolio level — or the higher levels are averaging noise.
If outcome-level scoring is inconsistent across investees, nothing above it is reliable. The portfolio view becomes an aggregation of noise. Most funds discover this when an LP asks for a cross-portfolio comparison and the underlying scores were generated against twenty different implicit rubrics.
The same framework can read two ways. One labels content. The other drives decisions. The difference is what the underlying evidence actually supports.
It's the data infrastructure underneath. Impact Intelligence is Sopact's solution for funds, foundations, and accelerators that score investees against the Five Dimensions at DD and carry those scores forward through monitoring and LP reporting — without resetting context each cycle.
