●●○ medium
There is no confirmed −; independently verified + decide the position (B). No unreachable strike-through.= non-additive meter
Late!: Chile's first social enterprise, donating 100% of profits. Late! began in 2008 with a small but bold twist on an ordinary product — bottled water whose every profit goes to charity. It was the first company in Chile to donate 100% of its profits to a nonprofit foundation, which is why the media called it “Chile's first social enterprise” and “water that does you good.” The business runs like any beverage company (administration, production, distribution). But after covering costs, every last peso of profit goes to specific social causes. The first donation came in July 2009. Sold through retailers like Sodimac and IKEA, Late! has channeled its profits to organizations such as TECHO-Chile (building emergency and social housing for the roughly 114,000 households living in Chile's informal settlements), the Friends of the Roberto del Río children's hospital, the women's organization Corporación Yo Mujer, and disaster relief — after the 2010 earthquake it airlifted bottled water to the stricken town of Curanilahue on an air force plane. By 2023 it had given over 1 billion Chilean pesos cumulatively. Late! has been a certified B Corp since 2012 (raising its score from 80 to 86) and has expanded into reusable bottles and biodegradable detergents. Co-founder Juan Pablo Larenas would go on to lead Sistema B and B Lab Global, the worldwide home of B Corp certification. The letter is B; certainty is medium. Unconfirmed concerns are placed under “Watching.” (As of 2026-Q2; estimate based on public information.)
Main narrative
Late! began in 2008 with a small but bold twist on an ordinary product — bottled water whose every profit goes to charity. It was the first company in Chile to donate 100% of its profits to a nonprofit foundation, which is why the media called it “Chile's first social enterprise” and “water that does you good.”
The business runs like any beverage company (administration, production, distribution). But after covering costs, every last peso of profit goes to specific social causes. The first donation came in July 2009. Sold through retailers like Sodimac and IKEA, Late! has channeled its profits to organizations such as TECHO-Chile (building emergency and social housing for the roughly 114,000 households living in Chile's informal settlements), the Friends of the Roberto del Río children's hospital, the women's organization Corporación Yo Mujer, and disaster relief — after the 2010 earthquake it airlifted bottled water to the stricken town of Curanilahue on an air force plane. By 2023 it had given over 1 billion Chilean pesos cumulatively. Late! has been a certified B Corp since 2012 (raising its score from 80 to 86) and has expanded into reusable bottles and biodegradable detergents. Co-founder Juan Pablo Larenas would go on to lead Sistema B and B Lab Global, the worldwide home of B Corp certification.
One person’s story (N1)
+ before → after
A family living in an informal settlement (campamento) in Chile, where roughly 114,000 households live in such precarious places. Every time a bottle of Late! water sells — on the shelves of Sodimac or IKEA — its profit goes to TECHO-Chile and funds emergency and social housing for the most vulnerable. From a flimsy makeshift dwelling toward a more dignified home. The profit from an everyday purchase turns into a roof for a family you will never meet — “water that does you good” is the name of that small cycle.
Source nature: Late! / TECHO-Chile / Sodimac / P3 company disclosure / partner. Positive effects are not used to offset negatives.
Positive / negative effects
+ effects
- Late! (founded 2008, Chile) is the first company in Chile to donate 100% of its profits to a nonprofit foundation, reported as “Chile's first social enterprise.” It sells purified bottled water (and lately reusable bottles and biodegradable detergents) like any company, devoting all profit after costs to TECHO-Chile (emergency and social housing for the roughly 114,000 households in informal settlements), a children's hospital, women's organizations, and disaster relief. By 2023 it had donated over 1 billion Chilean pesos cumulatively. A B Corp since 2012 (score 80→86). Co-founder Juan Pablo Larenas later led Sistema B and B Lab Global (the global home of B Corp certification).P1 independent multi-stakeholder certification / B Lab / Wikipedia
− effects (confirmed)
- No confirmed −.
- Scaling up the donation amount
- Reducing the environmental footprint of bottled water (share of reusable / biodegradable)
- Results of the NGOs funded
- Business margins and the sustainability of giving
A second look
The scale is small (a bottled-water and detergent company; about 15 years of cumulative giving over 1 billion pesos is estimated at the scale of hundreds of thousands to a million dollars, so the absolute amount is limited). Bottled water itself carries an environmental tension as single-use plastic (mitigated with reusable bottles and biodegradable products, though even its B Corp score is low on the environment). Impact takes the indirect form of funding other NGOs (such as TECHO), and the donation amount depends on profit — that is, on the business's margins.
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How to read this assessment
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Terms: Narrative Value = an assessment (A–G) of the distance between the story an organization tells and its reality / Ceiling meter = a visualization of the reachable upper bound / Watching = unconfirmed matters not counted / Protected stakeholders = people, animals, nature, and future generations. | Generated by: AI | As of: 2026-Q2 | Back to top