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Revisit recent Candid research on Black leadership in the social sector, including a comprehensive analysis of private philanthropy’s support of HBCUs.

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

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

Discover key insights into how foundation giving and payout changed last year and what these shifts may signal for 2023.

Discover five key insights about funding disparities in philanthropy to HBCUs based on Candid and ABFE’s new research report.

What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19? Candid and the Center of Disaster Philanthropy use data explore this question and examine how the social sector can maximize its impact today and in the future.

Despite its limitations, real-time data contains valuable early indicators of the philanthropic response to a crisis.

Every January, Candid surveys large U.S. private and community foundations to understand recent giving trends and forecast where giving is headed. [1] This year, we asked funders about their giving in FYE (fiscal year end) 2020 and 2021, including funding…

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. In it, we examined available  2019  data on global disaster-related philanthropy and disaster giving,  analyzing funding from foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, the U.S. federal government,…

What we can learn about nonprofit results from Platinum Seal holders? How do nonprofits measure success? How do they know they’re making a difference? Questions about the nonprofit sector’s impact and effectiveness abound—and are inordinately hard to answer. But one source…

Last month, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced that she, in partnership with her husband Dan Jewett, donated another $2.74 billion to philanthropic entities. 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.” These included higher education…

Every year, Candid conducts the Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, asking large U.S. foundations to share information about their philanthropic giving over the last two years as well as their plans for the year ahead. This year, we were especially interested…