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2021-10-22
Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP);
CECP is excited to share, in the 2021 edition of Giving in Numbers, brandnew insights that cover a wide range of corporate social engagement topics. Giving in Numbers has long reported on most of these topics, but this year the report illuminates new details relevant to the global COVID19 pandemic and social justice efforts. These new insights were selected in accordance with inquiries from corporate leaders in CECP's coalition seeking to empower themselves by bringing new data into their strategic decision making.
2021-03-02
Center on Philanthropy & Public Policy at the University of Southern California;
In this paper, A Generation of Impact: The Evolution of Philanthropy over the Past 25 Years, we analyze the development, at the national level, of an array of strategies that philanthropy has leveraged to create greater impact over this generation. We begin by documenting the changing landscape of philanthropy and the phenomenal growth in private giving that began in 1995. The times series data on giving and foundations (numbers, assets and giving) all show the establishment of a new plateau for giving over the last two and half decades. Of particular note is the doubling of foundation giving – from 9 percent to 18 percent – as a relative share of total private giving. In addition, the foundations created over this period account for 60 percent of all U.S. foundations, hold 36 percent of total U.S. foundation assets and account for 48 percent of total U.S. foundation giving.
2021-10-25
IUPUI Lilly Family School of Philanthropy;
The Women & Girls Index (WGI) is the only comprehensive index that measures charitable giving to women's and girls' causes.This year's WGI, which adds 2018 giving data across 47,449 charitable organizations, highlights both gaps and growth in philanthropic support for women and girls.
2021-04-28
Funder and Evaluator Affinity Network;
This tool was developed by the authors of Evaluation is So White: Systemic Wrongs Reinforced by Common Practices and How to Start Righting Them for the 2021 GEO Learning Conference. It supports reflection and action relating to the strategies offered in the brief, which is intended as a starting point, as there is still much to learn and understand about the barriers evaluators of color face. Similarly, this tool is not comprehensive of all that is needed to ensure evaluators of color flourish. The overarching purpose is to spark conversation, engage in reflection, identify areas for learning, and ultimately to change behavior and practice.
2021-09-08
WINGS;
This study examines philanthropy support organisations (PSOs) in India, Russia and Kenya, to understand their role in driving the growth and development of philanthropy, giving, and private social investment in these countries. The study examines the development of the sector in each country, by assessing its size, scope and other characteristics. There is some attempt to understand the individual and collective impact of PSOs in each country.
2021-10-25
Fidelity Charitable;
Despite significant volatility over its 13-year history, cryptocurrency has become a financial phenomenon—with the value of a single Bitcoin growing to an all-time high of more than $66,000 in October 2021. Cryptocurrency adoption continues to grow, despite its reputation for unpredictability.It is increasingly common to see cryptocurrencies as an option to pay for goods and services—and yes, even charitable giving. But even as they become part of everyday transactions, many individuals, businesses, regulators and other institutions are on a learning curve as they try to keep up with the breakneck pace at which the landscape is shifting.So, what do these trends mean for the charitable sector? And how are charitably inclined investors approaching crypto donations? Fidelity Charitable conducted a survey to address these questions. What we found shows significant knowledge gaps about charitable giving tax strategies as they relate to cryptocurrency.
2021-04-28
PolicySolve;
In early 2021, the Walton Family Foundation (WFF) Strategy, Learning and Evaluation Department (SLED) undertook a team-based process of identifying areas of the larger philanthropic evaluation field that WFF can (1) support; (2) learn from; and (3) provide some level of leadership to as it develops and strengthens over time. With input from 18 leaders from the philanthropic evaluation field (see the acknowledgements for a list), WFF explored a wide array of topics, identifying two priority areas (below) to focus on in depth, along with other contextual issues and field needs.
2021-10-07
Color of Change;
Color Of Change and Public Accountablity Initiative/LittleSis have compiled the most extensive report to date of the links between police foundations and corporations, identifying over 1,200 corporate donations or executives serving as board members at 23 of the largest police foundations in the country. This is the largest known study identifying the acute threat that police foundations pose to Black and Brown communities and democracy.
2020-05-18
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits;
This paper examines the governing authority and practices of state attorneys general offices as relating to a special problem of charitable trust enforcement: private foundation grantmaking to commercial donor advised funds (DAFs). The authors examine the regulatory challenges based on interviews with both current and former attorneys from nine attorney general offices, as well as interviews with commercial DAF sponsors. Charities regulators' ability to fulfill their supervisory duties related to private foundation-to-DAF grantmaking is blocked by the lack of transparency on the use of funds transferred to DAFs. Thus, charities regulators cannot ensure that private foundations' grantmaking fulfills restrictions on their charitable giving, and the public is unable to see charitable activity ordinarily subject to public inspection.
2021-07-06
Collective Impact Forum;
The COVID-19 pandemic was an all-hands-on-deck moment. As communities were jolted into emergency response on many fronts—health, jobs, housing, education, childcare, food, and mental health—collaboration and coordination became essential. In Milwaukee, the Civic Response Team united local governments, philanthropy, and nonprofits to collectively manage response and recovery. In just weeks, they housed hundreds of people, delivered tens of thousands of meals, built and promoted a COVID-19 testing system, distributed hundreds of thousands of masks, provided families with technology to connect to school, rescued childcare providers, and soothed anxieties and grief.This paper studies how the public-private partnerships within the Civic Response Team worked during their first year, and shows what we can learn from them to support better partnership and emergency response in the future.
2020-09-24
ClimateWorks Foundation;
The world is facing a global crisis on an unprecedented scale. If the international community does not take transformative action to combat climate change, people and communities will face increasingly dire consequences from rising global temperatures — extreme storms, droughts and wildfires, mass species extinction, new infectious diseases, famines, civil strife, and more. Some of these impacts are already becoming commonplace in the daily news.However, ClimateWorks' latest research reveals that less than 2% of global philanthropic giving is dedicated to climate change mitigation — not nearly enough to meet the scale of the global challenge. Although the field of climate change mitigation philanthropy has been developing rapidly, it clearly has immense room for rapid and sustained growth.This Funding Trends brief leverages one-of-a-kind data on funding flows to produce key insights for climate change mitigation philanthropy and includes a breakdown of foundation funding for climate change mitigation across regions and sectors.
2021-09-30
Global Economics Group;
In early 2020, Knight Foundation and Global Economics Group released a study on the diversity of the asset managers used by the United States' top 50 charitable foundations. Earlier this year, Knight Foundation asked Global Economics Group to refresh the study to assess the representation of diverse asset managers among foundations and begin to track changes in representation over time.The 2021 study assesses the representation of investment firms owned by women or members of racial or ethnic minority groups in the United States ("diverse-owned firms") among investment firms used by the country's top 55 charitable foundations in terms of total asset size. The top 55 foundations account for over $300 billion in total assets, collectively, including investment assets. We included five additional foundations so that all foundations that were among the top 50 in the 2020 study could be studied over time. In addition, based on both investor and manager feedback, we raised the threshold for what is considered diverse ownership from more than 0% to 50% or more, a threshold set by the commonly used industry databases.In refreshing this study, we have a more complete picture of the diversity in asset management in the nation's largest foundations. We observe: (1) increased investing with diverse-owned firms overall among the 25 foundations that participated in both studies and (2) higher foundation participation, with five new foundations engaging in the study revealing an additional $11.03 billion in invested assets under management. That said, there is still room for improvement in study participation, as 14 out of the top 55 foundations elected not to disclose diversity statistics or data at all.
