Candid

JUNE 29, 2021

This year, we were especially interested in learning how foundation giving and payout might have shifted in 2020. . Overall, we found that foundations increased their giving in fiscal year (FY) 2020. For those that did increase payout, they cited the crises of 2020 as reasons to give more. FY 2020 giving .

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Grant writing is a vital skill for local nonprofits seeking funding to support their missions. This blog will explore key strategies and tips to enhance your grant writing skills, helping your organization to secure the funding it deserves. Funders want to know how their investment aligns with their values.

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Professional Relationships in Grant Writing When it comes to professional relationships—particularly in grant writing—the same principles apply. At Think and Ink Grant Consulting, we emphasize the importance of stewardship. However, neglecting stewardship can hurt future funding opportunities. Shavonn Need help?

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Grant writing is a vital skill for nonprofits, artists, and educators in Atlanta, aimed at securing funding to enhance community projects and initiatives. This blog delves into the nuances of grant writing, exploring best practices, resources, and success stories from the heart of Georgia.

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Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 13, 2025

Every organization engages in the vital process of writing grants. The reality is that writing a grant is only the first step in a highly competitive process. Winning grants, especially in 2025, requires organizations to operate at the highest level of excellence and strategy.

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RBW Strategy

MAY 13, 2024

Nevada Grant Lab “A nonprofit corporation, started in 2020 with a vision to help nonprofits, local governments, and State agencies better access and maximize historically underutilized federal funding that can be used to build greater quality of life and opportunity for all Nevadans.” million grant award.

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

JANUARY 14, 2021

Last year many arts and culture nonprofits struggling to cope with closures and restrictions in the wake of COVID-19 were able to take advantage of multiple relief grants and funding, chief among them funds made available through the CARE Act and forgivable loans that were part of the Paycheck Protection Program (known as ‘PPP’).

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 24, 2022

The number of donor-advised fund accounts in the U.S. surpassed 1 million in 2020, and grants to charities from the 10 largest donor-advised fund sponsors totaled 22.41 So, let's dive into how donor-advised funds can help you with your overall fundraising strategy.

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Grantmakers love funding high-performing organizations. There are a few common questions grantmakers will ask to see how if a grant applicant is a high-performing nonprofit: "Tell us about your organization." Are there any other characteristics of high-performing, grant-winning non-profit organizations?

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Coastal Enterprises in Brunswick, Maine received $25 million, the Nonprofit Finance Fund was awarded $22 million, and Craft3 in Seattle announced it received $15 million. This is Scott’s second grant to LISC, one of the nation’s largest community development organizations. million shares of her Amazon stock. We are grateful to Ms.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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. According to 2023 IRS data, there are about 1.9

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Why and how Candid updated our racial equity funding site . The nationwide racial reckoning triggered by the 2020 murder of George Floyd has resulted in a dramatic increase in funding for racial equity. Tracking racial equity funding .

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the United States, there were 28 climate disasters in 2023 , which surpassed the record of 22 disasters in 2020 – tallying a price tag of at least $92.9 Nonprofit organizations need funding and support, whether through in-kind contributions, skilled volunteers, or monetary donations. How do we take this one step further?

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Looking for the biggest key trends in grant writing for 2021? It’s almost the New Year (thank goodness and good riddance to the dumpster fire that is 2020) and that means a whole new year of grants! That means that most nonprofits will need to plan accordingly when it comes to pursuing grants. Look no further.

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Candid

JULY 22, 2021

Her third round of grants in less than a year, Scott wrote that grant recipients were “286 high-impact organizations in categories and communities that have been historically underfunded and overlooked.” Editor’s note: Scott awarded a grant to Candid.) . Our analysis of Scott’s 2020 grants is available here.) .

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Candid

DECEMBER 23, 2024

BIPOC donors can leverage more than their dollars for bold change In 2020, when a group of BIPOC donors learned that only 1.3% BIPOC donors can leverage more than their dollars for bold change In 2020, when a group of BIPOC donors learned that only 1.3% of a total of $1.34 of a total of $1.34

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 22, 2021

billion in grants, a 27% increase over the same six-month span of 2020. In the first half of 2021, donors have recommended a record $4.3 Fidelity Charitable, an independent public charity and the nation’s largest grantmaker, distributed those gifts to more than 123,000 charities.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A grant writer is vital for organizational growth, but hiring a full-time grant writer is not always the best fit. Grant funding is an essential part of fundraising for nonprofit organizations. Some nonprofits make grant writing a small part of someone’s job description. Read our article to learn more.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 3, 2024

Surely it can write grants…right? Since AI writing has become more accessible and received a lot of very positive press, you may be wondering if AI can write grants for you. Alex, the founder of Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates, has been working in the nonprofit and grant space for more than a decade.

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Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Yet, despite the generosity of donors, the allocation of funds to nonprofits has often lacked consistency, predictability, and equity—factors critical to ensuring long-term impact and sustainability in the sector. Can we predict future giving patterns, and could these predictions lead to more equitable and timely distributions of funds?

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GrantNews

AUGUST 7, 2024

In addition to providing the list below regarding Black business support, GrantWatch also offers a list of over 2,000 grants in its BIPOC grants list category. nationaldaycalendar.com, “ Black Business Month “) Facts Regarding Black-owned Businesses In 2020, Black people represented 14.2% of employer-firm owners.

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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

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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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

National Philanthropic Trust (NPT), an independent public charity that manages donor-advised funds (DAF), granted $6.46 billion on behalf of its donors in Fiscal Year 2021, representing an increase in value of 179%, compared to Fiscal Year 2020. All eight charitable subsectors experienced increased volume of grantmaking.

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ProposalPRO

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Ever read through a federal Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and exclaim, “What are these people thinking?” In the grants space, federal law requires that the public be made aware of proposed (i.e., Finally, please subscribe to my Fund the Change blog, below. You wouldn’t be the first. What is Public Comment?

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Candid

JANUARY 25, 2023

If you read any recent reports on philanthropic giving, you’ll likely be confronted by the term “DAFs,” which stands for donor-advised fund. After all, grants from DAFs to qualified charities in 2021 totaled an estimated $45.74 increase compared to 2020. Quite simply, DAF stands for donor-advised fund. What is a DAF?

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2021

Six were Asian women: Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Ae Yue, Xiaojie Tan, and Daoyou Feng. In early 2020, I briefly debated the pros and cons of Wearing-a-Mask-While-Asian. In April 2020, I listened, sick to my stomach, as my mother told me she was a victim of a COVID-related anti-Asian hate incident.

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Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 16, 2023

(Originally posted June 2020 and updated October 2023) I've never "met" a nonprofit organization that had an excess of money to spend on hiring staff or paying a consultant. One of the questions I get most often is: " Is it okay to pay a grant writer a percentage of the grant award?" The short answer is "no."

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Candid

APRIL 3, 2025

Whether youre a nonprofit leader, a funder, or an analyst in the social sector, youve probably spent hours poring over funding data, trying to better understand what the funding landscape looks like for your specific cause. Pledges can be an important early signal of funding trends and therefore provide insight into future giving.

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Candid

APRIL 7, 2025

billion in total grant dollars, eclipsing the $16.2 To track long-term growth trends in assets, gifts, and grants, we zoom in on 100 of the largest community foundations by asset size, a consistent data set over the last 10 years. billion in total fundraising.

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Fundraising HayDay

MARCH 20, 2025

And while this was recorded before the new administration started making drastic changes in the federal funding landscape, the Uniform Guidance as it stands is in effect until updated again. Many changes were beneficial to grantees. Many changes were beneficial to grantees.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Hiring a grant writer is one of the most important decisions a nonprofit can make. Nonprofit organizations rely on outside funding to operate. This funding can come in the form of donations, federal dollars, private funders, gifts, fundraising events, and grants. Applying for grants can kind of be hard, though.

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The Fundraiser Coach

MAY 30, 2023

I hear fundraisers complain about gifts received through Donor Advised Funds, known as DAFs. "I Giving through Donor Advised Funds has been going on for a long time. Donor advised funds today are wildly popular with investor-donors and represent a great deal of wealth poised to be applied to do good.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. This typically resulted in about 900-1,300 funders represented and 100-150k grants collected in a given year.

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Candid

JUNE 15, 2022

It’s been one year since Candid received the email every nonprofit dreams of: confirmation of your $15 million grant. As requested, we are submitting this brief annual letter on our use of these funds. Establish an innovation fund to seed next generation ideas . The Candid Innovation Fund. Take care of Candid staff .

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Strategic Grants

OCTOBER 8, 2023

One of the most common questions we are asked by not-for-profit organisations at Strategic Grants is “Does your grants database have a list of Private Ancillary Funds?” commonly referred to as PAFs) along with the next obvious question of “Great – how can we receive funds from them?”. What does the PAF data show us?

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Candid

JULY 5, 2022

1 ] This year, we asked funders about their giving in FYE (fiscal year end) 2020 and 2021, including funding designated for COVID-19 [ 2 ] and what trends they are paying attention to this year. Giving increased in FYE 2021 for most foundations compared to 2020, though payout was not as likely to increase. .

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For example, about 75% of Candid’s grants data is sourced from Forms 990). After 2020, the time lag is closer to three years. We’re still waiting on tens of thousands of filings for 2019 iii and about 30% of 2020 filings; collection of 2021 filings has just begun. 990s submitted in 2020) is the first year impacted by COVID.

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