Candid insights

W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Huilan Krenn explains data’s key role in advancing racial equity in philanthropy and how nonprofit demographics unlock real-world progress.

If creating a nonprofit social media plan is top of mind this year, learn how Candid uses data to inform our approach–and how you can do the same.

Candid’s CEO shares how we are making the best data on the social sector available in Candid’s next generation platform to support your organizations’ mission-driven success.

Learn about five main types of nonprofit years, what they mean, and how they differ, including fiscal year, calendar year, tax form year, and more.

Learn how to conduct research using our free demographic data set of over 62,000 nonprofits that’ve shared their data with Candid.

In this blog, we debunk five common myths about Candid’s grants data.

In this blog, we explore Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set and how it can be used for grantmaking trends analysis in the social sector.

Get a glimpse into the most comprehensive source of nonprofit compensation from Candid’s latest report that analyzes executive salaries using Form 990 data.

In this blog, discover four key learnings about foundations’ varying approaches to providing general operating support.

Learn more about Candid Data for Academics, a free nonprofit dataset available to researchers at higher education institutions.

Learn about Candid’s grants data set and how it’s evolved over the past 21 years to reflect the needs of the social sector.

Get insights into the impact of inflation on funders’ grantmaking decisions in 2022 and beyond.