wealthschema/archetypes/es-01-esg-faith-based-impact-investor
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ESG / Faith-Based / Impact Investor

Investor who screens investments based on ESG criteria, religious values (halal, biblically responsible), or impact thesis. DAF holder, community investment.

ES-01 is the values-screened affluent investor where halal, biblically responsible, and impact-bond mandates sit alongside conventional ESG screens — and where a sizeable DAF and a $1M+ liquid balance make those mandates economically real rather than aspirational.

Age Range
35–60
Net Worth
$1M–$5M
Cohort
Niche Expanded

About this archetype

ES-01 represents the affluent investor whose portfolio construction is governed by a values mandate alongside a return mandate, with the corpus weighted toward households where the values layer is sophisticated enough to require purpose-built product. Two structural elements distinguish this archetype. First, the screen set extends beyond standard ESG (negative screens on tobacco, weapons, fossil fuels) into religion-specific frameworks: Shariah-compliant investing with its prohibition on interest-bearing instruments (no conventional bonds, no bank common stock above debt-ratio thresholds, AAOIFI standards governing purification), biblically responsible investing screens (BRI — typically excluding pornography, abortion-related, and certain entertainment categories), and similar Catholic, Jewish, and other faith-based mandates. Second, the corpus skews to households with a Donor-Advised Fund (mainstream DAF sponsors, plus faith-affiliated sponsors such as Christian-foundation and Muslim-faith DAF programs), where impact-bond holdings and direct community-investment notes (CDFI notes, mission-driven impact loans) appear alongside the public-equity portfolio.

Cash flow is the affluent dual-income story — median combined income $278k, median net worth $2.57M, $1.39M liquid — with 72% homeowners and a married-filing-jointly dominance (14 of 18). The corpus is in the peak-accumulation phase (median adult age 50, range 37-67), the wealth tier where values screens become economically consequential rather than symbolic. Investable assets concentrate in screened mutual funds, faith-based ETFs (halal-screened and biblically-responsible ETFs), green and impact bonds (supranational green bonds plus state-program and community-investment notes), and DAF positions held for grantmaking with multi-year time horizons.

What separates ES-01 from N-02 — the C12 Niche ESG archetype — is the explicit faith-based and impact-bond surface. N-02 covers values-aligned investors using mainstream ESG products (sustainable mutual funds, fossil-fuel-free ETFs, basic shareholder-advocacy participation) at any wealth tier. ES-01 is calibrated for the household where the screen set is religion-specific or impact-bond-inclusive and where the wealth tier ($1M+ liquid) supports separately managed accounts, purification calculations, qualified-charitable-distribution planning, and the kind of custom-screened SMA work that mass-market product cannot deliver.

Defining characteristics

  • ESG screening
    Negative and positive screens applied across the public-equity sleeve: fossil-fuel exclusion, weapons exclusion, controversial-business exclusion, with positive tilts toward MSCI ESG-rated leaders or analog rating frameworks.
  • Halal / SRI / BRI screens
    Shariah-compliant mandates (AAOIFI standards, no interest-bearing instruments, purification calculations on incidental haram income), biblically responsible investing screens, or analogous religion-specific framework — the specialized testing surface this archetype owns.
  • DAF holder
    Donor-Advised Fund presence is the corpus norm rather than the exception — used for bunched-deduction strategies and as a vehicle for impact-grant deployment over multi-year horizons.
  • Impact bonds
    Supranational green bonds, CDFI notes, mission-driven impact loans, and social-impact bond positions — a fixed-income sleeve that pays below-market rates explicitly and intentionally, which return-projection software must model correctly.
  • Negative screening
    Custom exclusion lists at the SMA level, with reconciliation events when a held position breaches a screen mid-year — corporate-action handling that retail product simply does not surface.
  • Shareholder advocacy
    Proxy voting aligned with the values mandate, sometimes through values-aligned shareholder-advocacy coalitions or ESG-tilted proxy-voting policies — relevant for the institutional-style reporting layer at this wealth tier.

Corpus signature

n = 18 households

Aggregated across the 18 ES-01 households in the shipped v3 corpus corpus. Numbers describe the corpus, not population claims.

Median income
$278k
p25–p75 $262k–$341k
Median net worth
$2.6M
mean $2.8M
Liquid net worth
$1.4M
median
Investable assets
$1.9M
median
Income distribution
$250k–310k
12
$310k–370k
4
$370k–430k
2
Net-worth distribution
$1.1m–2.3m
4
$2.3m–3.5m
10
$3.5m–4.7m
4
Goals across the corpus
Retirement18 / 18
Debt payoff12 / 18
Education funding10 / 18
Home purchase5 / 18
Emergency fund4 / 18
Liability composition
Credit cards18 / 18
Mortgages13 / 18
Student loans12 / 18
Auto loans5 / 18
  • 13 of 18 (72%) are homeowners; the remainder rent.
  • CA, NY, NJ account for 7 of 18 households — 39% of the corpus.
  • Median adult-member age is 50 (range 37–67 across primaries and spouses).
  • 10 of 18 (56%) carry one or more dependents.
  • Married filing jointly is the dominant filing status (14 of 18).

Representative household

ES-01-seed-4
John R.Single·Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL

John is a 37-year-old single finance professional in Chicago at the young end of the ES-01 cohort (corpus median age 50) with $279k income, $2.35M net worth, and $1.05M liquid — the early-career-affluent single rather than the peak-accumulation family case that dominates the archetype. The corpus does not encode an explicit ESG screen, halal flag, DAF balance, or impact-bond holding on this seed (the alternative-investment line is a $190k real-estate crowdfunding position rather than a faith- or impact-tagged sleeve), so the rep is the testing posture for the ESG planning surface — single filing status puts QCD and DAF bunching strategies on the table earlier than the MFJ majority, and if the household holds the impact-bond sleeve typical of this archetype, the projection engine must absorb the intentionally below-market yield assumption without overstating the $4.7M retirement trajectory the seed currently shows as on-track.

Gross income
$278,813
Net worth
$2,348,406
Liquid NW
$1,054,093
Age
37
Top goals on this household
Retirement
$4,745,400
Debt payoff
$24,084

Schema fields covered

Every ES-01 household ships with — at minimum — these JSON fields populated. The full schema is documented in the data set you purchase.

members[].age
income.combined_gross
net_worth.total
filing_status
accounts.taxable.lots[].acquisition_date
accounts.taxable.lots[].cost_basis
accounts.taxable.lots[].unrealized_pnl
taxes.wash_sale_flags

Who builds against this archetype

Faith-aligned wealth platforms use ES-01 to validate screen application against an affluent client base where SMA-level customization is normal. RIA technology vendors building ESG-portfolio rebalancing use the corpus to test custom-screen reconciliation logic and the post-trade compliance flow when corporate actions create screen breaches. DAF sponsors (mainstream and faith-affiliated sponsors) test grant-recommendation UX and the year-over-year contribution-and-grant accounting against ES-01's bunched-deduction patterns. Note that the religion/race-ethnicity overlay only applies to B08-tagged and B26-tagged households per CLAUDE.md §3.

Testing scenarios this corpus is calibrated for

  • 01Shariah purification calculation — the small share of incidental haram income (interest, alcohol-stock revenue) that must be donated for the portfolio to remain compliant — applied across a $1.5M+ investable-assets sleeve.
  • 02Custom negative-screen breach handling: a held position becomes screen-non-compliant via corporate action (M&A, business-line expansion) and the system must surface the breach, propose remediation, and document the audit trail.
  • 03Impact-bond yield modeling where the bond pays a below-market coupon intentionally — return-projection engines that assume market-rate yield will overstate the trajectory.
  • 04DAF bunching strategy across multi-year horizons, including the qualified-charitable-distribution path for the 70.5+ subset of the corpus and the appreciated-securities donation flow.
  • 05Proxy-voting alignment with a stated values policy (values-aligned shareholder-advocacy coalitions or ESG proxy-voting frameworks) and reporting against the policy at year-end for client-facing values impact reports.
  • 06Faith-based mutual fund and ETF screening at the household level — halal-screened ETFs, biblically-responsible funds, and faith-aligned mutual-fund families — with attribution back to the household's stated mandate.

Edge cases and what's not in this corpus

ES-01 is the values-screened affluent case. N-02 in the C12 cohort covers values-aligned investors without the faith-based / impact-bond depth — a mass-affluent buyer who wants 'sustainable mutual funds' fits N-02, not ES-01. Wealth tiers above the ES-01 net-worth band (large-DAF, private-foundation-instead-of-DAF households) belong in H-02 or H-03 with an ESG overlay, since the planning surface shifts to private-foundation excise tax, 5% minimum payout, and Form 990-PF. Direct impact-only investors with concessionary-rate private credit at scale (mission-driven impact-fund LP positions in seven figures, major social-finance commitments) are not represented — that profile sits at the H-03/H-tier intersection. Households where the values screen is purely aspirational (stated preference, no actual portfolio differentiation) are excluded by design; the corpus assumes the screens are operationally implemented.

Calibration notes

Income and wealth bands during v3 synthesis were anchored to the affluent percentile bands of the Survey of Consumer Finances, with religion-affiliation share informed by the US Religion Census and Pew Religious Landscape Study to keep the faith-based subgroup plausible without claiming specific quantile matches. DAF prevalence rates were informed by industry DAF reports and the Giving USA series. Negative-screen sectors and impact-bond product categories were chosen to reflect what was actually purchasable as of synthesis (halal-screened ETFs, biblically-responsible funds, supranational green bonds, CDFI notes, and mission-driven impact loans for the impact-bond sleeve). The religion and race-ethnicity overlays appear only on B08-tagged and B26-tagged households per CLAUDE.md §3; default ES-01 households do not surface those fields. Per CLAUDE.md §9 the v3 corpus is frozen and not regenerable from current code.

How this differs from related archetypes

Frequently asked questions

What does the ES-01 archetype represent?+

ES-01 — ESG / Faith-Based / Impact Investor represents an affluent household whose investment portfolio is governed by a values mandate alongside a return mandate, with screens that extend beyond standard ESG into religion-specific frameworks (halal/Shariah, biblically responsible) and impact-bond exposure. The wealth tier (median $2.57M net worth, $1.39M liquid) supports the SMA-level customization and DAF activity these mandates typically require.

How does ES-01 differ from N-02 (ESG / Values-Based Investor)?+

N-02 covers the broader values-aligned investor — mass-affluent or affluent, using mainstream ESG products. ES-01 is the specialized case: faith-based screens are present (halal purification, BRI exclusion lists), impact-bond positions appear in the fixed-income sleeve, and the wealth tier supports separately managed accounts with custom screen sets. Software validated only on N-02 may not exercise the purification calculation or the impact-bond yield modeling that ES-01 surfaces.

Are religion and race-ethnicity fields included in ES-01 households?+

Only on bundles tagged B08 (ESG Values) and B26 (Faith-Based) per CLAUDE.md §3. The default ES-01 persona does not include religion or race-ethnicity; those fields are added as a conditional overlay where the bundle's testing purpose requires them.

Does the corpus model Shariah purification calculations?+

The corpus represents portfolios consistent with AAOIFI-aligned screens but does not execute the purification calculation as a dynamic year-end event — that's the kind of computation the buyer's software typically performs against the household's positions. ES-01 provides the structural setup (Shariah-screened holdings, the small incidental income share that would trigger purification) for the buyer to layer their purification engine on top.

Which synthetic wealth data sets include ES-01 households?+

ES-01 is tagged for B02, B05, B08, B14, B24, and B26 — covering tax planning, equity / concentrated-asset adjacent testing, ESG / values, retirement, niche/specialty, and the faith-based bundle where the religion overlay applies. See the right-hand sidebar for the bundles that ship ES-01 households.

Is the ES-01 corpus regenerable from current code?+

No. The shipped 1,451-household v3 corpus is frozen as of synthesis; drift was confirmed on 2026-05-09. Per CLAUDE.md §9, v3 ES-01 households should be treated as a static reference dataset rather than as a regenerable output.

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