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How America gives: Who funds what causes and where?

Candid

What do we know about the causes and states each type of funding flows to and the factors that affect giving trends? Both individual and institutional giving increased between 2015 and 2022, not only in terms of total dollars awarded but also in terms of average donation or grant size. Who gives to what causes?

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

Candid and ABFE partnered to create and publish Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities. foundations steadily decreased their support of HBCUs, in terms of both percentage of total giving and grant dollars awarded. In fact, large U.S. Ivy League schools received a combined $5.5

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

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The overwhelming majority of government grants are awarded by a panel of outside reviewers, including 80% of the grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over 90% of those awarded by the National Science Foundation or NSF (Bendiscioli, 2019). Finally, please subscribe to my Fund the Change blog, below.

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What gives in Nebraska? The Buffett effect and a culture of giving 

Candid

That’s one of the findings from Dollars and Change: A Look at Individual and Institutional Giving Across the United States From 2015 to 2022 , a report released in September by Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good. These grantmakers account for about 17% of all grant dollars awarded to Nebraska-based nonprofits.

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What do the mega gifts of 2024 say about giving? 

Candid

According to Dollars and Change , a report from Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good, total dollars awarded and average grant or gift size increased between 2015 and 2022. And Steve and Alex Cohen awarded $116.2 Those gifts are in addition to the $640 million she awarded in the first quarter of the year.

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Normalizing seeking support for mental health takes collective action

Candid

Candid’s data shows that between 2018 and 2020, 10,337 funders awarded 44,665 grants valued at $9.8 Here are the top 10 grantmakers in Georgia who funded mental health between 2014 and 2021. Amount Funded for Mental Health. Number of Grants Awarded. Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Foundation. 11,331,603.

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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

Candid

At Candid, we collect data on millions of grants and other transactions awarded by hundreds of thousands of funders across the globe. In comparison, our Foundation 1000 data set is limited to grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a set of 1,000 of the largest U.S. Notes: “All transactions” are limited to those awarded by U.S.

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