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Correspondence 0001580642-24-002225 from Humankind Benefit Corp (CIK 0001821080)

Humankind Benefit Corp (CIK 0001821080)
Date: April 22, 2024 · CIK: 0001821080 · Accession: 0001580642-24-002225

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File numbers found in text: 333-248060, 811-23602

Date
April 22, 2024
Author
/s/Lynn Bowley
Form
CORRESP
Company
Humankind Benefit Corp (CIK 0001821080)

Letter

VIA EDGAR Division of Investment Management 100 F Street, NE Washington, DC 20549 File Nos. 333-248060 and 811-23602

Re: Humankind Benefit Corporation, Humankind US Stock ETF

Dear Ms. White:

This response is provided on behalf of Humankind Benefit Corporation (the “Trust” or the “Registrant”) with respect to Staff comments received by phone on April 11, 2024 regarding the Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A, and more particularly the Trust’s post-effective amendment filed on February 26, 2024 for the purpose of registering shares of Humankind US Stock ETF (the “Fund”). The Staff’s comments and the Trust’s responses are set forth below. Capitalized terms used, but not defined herein, have the same meaning given to them in the Trust’s Registration Statement.

COVER PAGE

1. Comment: On the cover page, please note that it is indicated as follows:

It is proposed that this filing will become effective: (check appropriate box)

[x] on February 26, 2024 pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

Please confirm that the above-mentioned indication for effectiveness was an inadvertent oversight.

Response: The Registrant confirms the inadvertent error and that the “60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)” box should have been checked.

PROSPECTUS

Humankind US Stock ETF – Fund Summary – Fees and Expenses

2. Comment: In the subsections entitled “Annual Fund Operating Expenses” and “Example” in the section entitled “Fees and Expenses,” please complete the bracketed information prior to the date of effectiveness.

Response: The Registrant confirms that such requested information will be completed before the date of effectiveness.

3. Comment: In the subsection entitled “Annual Fund Operating Expenses” in the section entitled “Fees and Expenses,” please remove all the inapplicable line items that are indicated as “None.” Such line items are:

· Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases;

· Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load); and

· Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees.

Response: The Registrant has removed the referenced line items.

4. Comment: The first sentence of the section entitled “Fees and Expenses” states:

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Please revise the sentence as follows:

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund.

Response: The Registrant has revised the disclosure accordingly.

Additional Information about the Fund’s Investment Objectives and Strategies

5. Comment: In the section entitled “Humankind Value,” please explain why “internet addiction” has been removed from the list of “Specific Factors Considered.”

Response: The factors used in the index methodology are reviewed to ensure that such factors incorporate the latest available scientific literature and data. The current review found that more recent academic publications concluded there was a lack of consensus on the definition

of “Internet Addiction.” It was determined that such factor was no longer properly supported and was therefore removed.

6. Comment: Given the subjective nature of the activities performed by the Adviser, as referenced under the section entitled “Supply Chain Adjustments and Government Value Adjustments,” please explain why it is appropriate to refer the Fund as an index fund as opposed to an actively managed fund.

Response: The Fund is properly characterized as an index fund because it seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of the Humankind US Equity Index (the “Index”). The Index is only reconstituted once a year and is rebalanced quarterly on predetermined dates. No attempt is made to outperform the Index based on the timing of investment decisions. In addition, the Index constituents have tended to have significant continuity from year to year. Because the Index is only reconstituted once per year, there is little trading with respect to portfolio positions other than to conduct the quarterly rebalancing and occasionally to manage cash flows. The annual reconstitution of the Index, quarterly rebalancing, and investment objective of the Fund are all hallmarks of a passive index fund rather than an actively managed fund.

7. Comment: The following sentences of the section entitled “Supply Chain Adjustments and Government Value Adjustments” state:

For example, the humankind value for each company is adjusted on the basis of the company’s supply chain relationships. These supply chain links are inferred from the nature of the company’s business.

Please add an example demonstrating how the supply chain links are inferred from the nature of the company’s business.

Response: The Registrant has made such additional disclosure as requested.

8. Comment: The following sentence of the section entitled “Supply Chain Adjustments and Government Value Adjustments” states:

Research drawing on a variety of sources is used to breakdown and appropriately classify a company’s business across industries and to establish the supply chain links between those industries.

Please disclose the types of the “sources” that the Adviser uses.

Response: The Registrant has made such additional disclosure as requested.

9. Comment: The following sentence of the section entitled “Supply Chain Adjustments and Government Value Adjustments” states:

Companies and governments reciprocally exchange Humankind value on the basis of financial dependencies like taxation links and the estimated amount of revenue that a specific company generates within a given country.

Please clarify what “taxation links” means.

Response: The Registrant has revised the disclosure accordingly.

10. Comment: The following sentence of the section entitled “Supply Chain Adjustments and Government Value Adjustments” states:

Companies with concentrated operations in low Humankind value countries are effectively penalized relative to peers that operate in less problematic locations.

Please disclose the countries that currently are low Humankind value countries.

Response: The Registrant has made the following additional disclosure (in bold).

Companies with concentrated operations in low Humankind value countries are effectively penalized relative to peers that operate in less problematic locations. Countries that are governed by more democratic regimes, and that effectively provide key social services like healthcare and clean water to their residents tend to have higher Humankind Values. Conversely, low Humankind Value countries tend to be more authoritarian, and tend not to provide key social services, or at least not provide them as effectively.

The Registrant respectively declines to disclose examples of low Humankind value countries as such countries could change.

11. Comment: The section entitled “Capital Structure Distribution Adjustments” states:

An adjustment in humankind value can be made on the basis of the capital structure of the company. If there is a company with $1 million in humankind value that raises only equity, then that humankind value belongs to the equity. However, if the company funded its business with half equity capital and half debt capital, then the humankind value would be distributed between those components of the capital structure.

Please clarify the impact of the capital structure distribution adjustment and whether different capital structure (e.g., only equity vs. half equity and half debt) would impact the humankind value.

Response: The Registrant has revised the disclosure accordingly.

STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Purchase, Redemption and Pricing of Shares

12. Comment: Please revise the first paragraph under the subsection entitled “Acceptance of Creation Orders” in the section entitled “Creation and Redemption of Creation Units” as follows (suggested changes are in bold):

The Company and the Distributor reserve the absolute right to reject or revoke acceptance of a creation order transmitted to it in respect of the Fund, for example, if (a) the order is not in proper form; (b) the purchaser or group of related purchasers, upon obtaining the Creation Units of Shares, would own 80% or more of the outstanding Shares of such Fund; (c) the acceptance of the Portfolio Deposit would have certain adverse tax consequences, such as causing the Fund no longer to meet RIC status under the Code for federal tax purposes; (d) the acceptance of the Portfolio Deposit would, in the opinion of the Fund, be unlawful, as in the case of a purchaser who was banned from trading in securities the acceptance of the Portfolio Deposit would otherwise, in the discretion of the Fund, the Adviser and/or sub-advisers, have an adverse effect on the Fund or on the rights of the Fund’s beneficial owners; or (f)(d) there exist circumstances outside the control of the Fund that make it impossible to process purchases of Creation Units of Shares for all practical purposes. Examples of such circumstances include: acts of God or public service or utility problems such as fires, floods, extreme weather conditions and power outage resulting in telephone, telecopy and computer failures; market conditions or activities causing trading halts; systems failures involving computer or other information systems affecting the Fund, the Adviser, any sub-adviser, the Transfer Agent, the Custodian, the Distributor, DTC, NSCC or any other participant in the purchase process; and similar extraordinary events. The Transfer Agent will notify a prospective creator of its rejection of the order of such person. The Company, the Custodian, any subcustodian and the Distributor are under no duty, however, to give notification of any defects or irregularities in the delivery of Fund Deposits to Authorized Participants nor shall either of them incur any liability to Authorized Participants for the failure to give any such notification. All questions as to the number of shares of each security in the Deposit Instruments and the validity, form, eligibility and acceptance for deposit of any securities to be delivered shall be determined by the Company, and the Company’s determination shall be final and binding.

Response: The Registrant has revised the disclosure accordingly.

Sincerely,
/s/Lynn Bowley

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April 22, 2024

VIA EDGAR

Alison White

Division of Investment Management

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, NE

Washington, DC 20549

Re: Humankind Benefit Corporation, Humankind US Stock ETF

File Nos. 333-248060 and 811-23602

Dear Ms. White:

This response is provided on behalf of Humankind Benefit
Corporation (the “Trust” or the “Registrant”) with respect to Staff comments received by phone on April 11, 2024
regarding the Trust’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A, and more particularly the Trust’s post-effective amendment filed
on February 26, 2024 for the purpose of registering shares of Humankind US Stock ETF (the “Fund”). The Staff’s comments
and the Trust’s responses are set forth below. Capitalized terms used, but not defined herein, have the same meaning given to them
in the Trust’s Registration Statement.

COVER PAGE

 1. Comment: On the cover page, please note that it is indicated as follows:

It is proposed that this filing will
become effective: (check appropriate box)

[x] on February
26, 2024 pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

Please confirm that the above-mentioned
indication for effectiveness was an inadvertent oversight.

Response: The Registrant confirms
the inadvertent error and that the “60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)” box should have been checked.

PROSPECTUS

Humankind US Stock ETF – Fund Summary –
Fees and Expenses

 2. Comment: In the subsections entitled “Annual Fund Operating
Expenses” and “Example” in the section entitled “Fees and Expenses,” please complete the bracketed information
prior to the date of effectiveness.

Response: The Registrant confirms
that such requested information will be completed before the date of effectiveness.

 3. Comment: In the subsection entitled “Annual Fund Operating
Expenses” in the section entitled “Fees and Expenses,” please remove all the inapplicable line items that are indicated
as “None.” Such line items are:

 · Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases;

 · Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load); and

 · Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees.

Response: The Registrant has
removed the referenced line items.

 4. Comment: The first sentence of the section entitled “Fees and
Expenses” states:

This table describes the fees and expenses
that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Please revise the sentence as
follows:

This table describes the fees and expenses
that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund.

Response: The Registrant has
revised the disclosure accordingly.

Additional Information about the Fund’s Investment
Objectives and Strategies

 5. Comment: In the section entitled “Humankind Value,” please
explain why “internet addiction” has been removed from the list of “Specific Factors Considered.”

Response: The factors used in
the index methodology are reviewed to ensure that such factors incorporate the latest available scientific literature and data. The current
review found that more recent academic publications concluded there was a lack of consensus on the definition

of “Internet Addiction.” It
was determined that such factor was no longer properly supported and was therefore removed.

 6. Comment: Given the subjective nature of the activities performed
by the Adviser, as referenced under the section entitled “Supply Chain Adjustments and Government Value Adjustments,” please
explain why it is appropriate to refer the Fund as an index fund as opposed to an actively managed fund.

Response:
The Fund is properly characterized as an index fund because it seeks to provide investment
results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of the Humankind US Equity Index (the “Index”).
The Index is only reconstituted once a year and is rebalanced quarterly on predetermined dates. No attempt is made to outperform the Index
based on the timing of investment decisions. In addition, the Index constituents have tended to have significant continuity from year
to year. Because the Index is only reconstituted once per year, there is little trading with respect to portfolio positions other than
to conduct the quarterly rebalancing and occasionally to manage cash flows. The annual reconstitution of the Index, quarterly rebalancing,
and investment objective of the Fund are all hallmarks of a passive index fund rather than an actively managed fund.

 7. Comment: The following sentences of the section entitled “Supply
Chain Adjustments and Government Value Adjustments” state:

For example, the humankind value for
each company is adjusted on the basis of the company’s supply chain relationships. These supply chain links are inferred from the
nature of the company’s business.

Please add an example demonstrating how
the supply chain links are inferred from the nature of the company’s business.

Response: The Registrant has
made such additional disclosure as requested.

 8. Comment: The following sentence of the section entitled “Supply
Chain Adjustments and Government Value Adjustments” states:

Research drawing on a variety of sources
is used to breakdown and appropriately classify a company’s business across industries and to establish the supply chain links between
those industries.

Please disclose the types of the “sources”
that the Adviser uses.

Response: The Registrant has
made such additional disclosure as requested.

 9. Comment: The following sentence of the section entitled “Supply
Chain Adjustments and Government Value Adjustments” states:

Companies and governments reciprocally
exchange Humankind value on the basis of financial dependencies like taxation links and the estimated amount of revenue that a specific
company generates within a given country.

Please clarify what “taxation links”
means.

Response: The Registrant has
revised the disclosure accordingly.

 10. Comment: The following sentence of the section entitled “Supply
Chain Adjustments and Government Value Adjustments” states:

Companies with concentrated operations
in low Humankind value countries are effectively penalized relative to peers that operate in less problematic locations.

Please disclose the countries that currently
are low Humankind value countries.

Response: The Registrant has
made the following additional disclosure (in bold).

Companies with concentrated operations
in low Humankind value countries are effectively penalized relative to peers that operate in less problematic locations. Countries
that are governed by more democratic regimes, and that effectively provide key social services like healthcare and clean water to their
residents tend to have higher Humankind Values. Conversely, low Humankind Value countries tend to be more authoritarian, and tend not
to provide key social services, or at least not provide them as effectively.

The Registrant respectively declines
to disclose examples of low Humankind value countries as such countries could change.

 11. Comment: The section entitled “Capital Structure Distribution
Adjustments” states:

An adjustment in humankind value can
be made on the basis of the capital structure of the company. If there is a company with $1 million in humankind value that raises only
equity, then that humankind value belongs to the equity. However, if the company funded its business with half equity capital and half
debt capital, then the humankind value would be distributed between those components of the capital structure.

Please clarify the impact of the capital
structure distribution adjustment and whether different capital structure (e.g., only equity vs. half equity and half debt) would impact
the humankind value.

Response: The Registrant has
revised the disclosure accordingly.

STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Purchase, Redemption and Pricing of Shares

 12. Comment: Please revise the first paragraph under the subsection entitled
“Acceptance of Creation Orders” in the section entitled “Creation and Redemption of Creation Units” as follows
(suggested changes are in bold):

The Company and the Distributor reserve
the absolute right to reject or revoke acceptance
of a creation order transmitted to it in respect of the Fund, for example, if (a) the order is not in proper form; (b) the purchaser or
group of related purchasers, upon obtaining the Creation Units of Shares, would own 80% or more of the outstanding Shares of such Fund;
(c) the acceptance of the Portfolio Deposit would have certain adverse tax consequences, such as causing the Fund no longer
to meet RIC status under the Code for federal tax purposes; (d) the acceptance of the Portfolio Deposit would, in the opinion
of the Fund, be unlawful, as in the case of a purchaser who was banned from trading in securities the
acceptance of the Portfolio Deposit would otherwise, in the discretion of the Fund, the Adviser and/or sub-advisers, have an adverse effect
on the Fund or on the rights of the Fund’s beneficial owners; or (f)(d) there
exist circumstances outside the control of the Fund that make it impossible to process purchases of Creation Units of Shares for all practical
purposes. Examples of such circumstances include: acts of God or public service or utility problems such as fires, floods, extreme weather
conditions and power outage resulting in telephone, telecopy and computer failures; market conditions or activities causing trading halts;
systems failures involving computer or other information systems affecting the Fund, the Adviser, any sub-adviser, the Transfer Agent,
the Custodian, the Distributor, DTC, NSCC or any other participant in the purchase process; and similar extraordinary events. The Transfer
Agent will notify a prospective creator of its rejection of the order of such person. The Company, the Custodian, any subcustodian and
the Distributor are under no duty, however, to give notification of any defects or irregularities in the delivery of Fund Deposits to
Authorized Participants nor shall either of them incur any liability to Authorized Participants for the failure to give any such notification.
All questions as to the number of shares of each security in the Deposit Instruments and the validity, form, eligibility and acceptance
for deposit of any securities to be delivered shall be determined by the Company, and the Company’s determination shall be final
and binding.

Response: The Registrant has
revised the disclosure accordingly.

Sincerely,

    /s/Lynn Bowley

    Lynn Bowley

cc: Todd Zerega, Esq. (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP); Mark Parise, Esq.
(Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP)