<p> Social enterprises can be regarded as a new model of modern non-profit organizations （NPOs）. They are working to challenge and untangle the various social obstacles we face today, such as issues relating to the environment and well-being, inequality of educational opportunities, and disparity in income distribution. Although prompt action must be taken to overcome these challenges, governments alone cannot find answers in a satisfactory manner, so social enterprises have recently stepped in and are shifting the boundaries. From the viewpoint of sustainability, to accomplish their various targets, they need to earn money by generating their own business. They also need to receive contributions or investments to continue their activities. Many start-up social enterprises struggle to obtain resources such as manpower, contributions and grants. As support organizations for fund-raising, non-profit organizations and commercial organizations can be considered. The former include NPO banks, Shinkin banks, community banks, etc., the latter crowdfunding, etc. In addition, analysis support using financial data from the viewpoint of management is also necessary to improve the business management capacity of supporting organizations.</p><p> In this paper, we examine the function of the intermediate support organization on fundraising. Social finance utilizes private capital and contributes to solving social and environmental issues. In considering cases of venture philanthropy in Japan and issues of sustainable management for citizen funds, hints taken from the idea of actors and tools by Salamon's proposal, diversification of fund procurement sources and ingenuity to procurement methods are important. How to build empathy for the missions of social enterprises and fund providers is an issue that needs to be solved. For future intermediate support organizations in Japan, it is necessary to enhance and strengthen the function to support not only the current function, but also intermediary functions and to foster and develop social enterprises.</p><p>JEL Classifications:D63, H44, M14</p>