By Anna Pruitt and Jon Bergdoll The big idea Large shares of grants that donor-advised funds distributed from 2014 to 2018 supported educational and religious nonprofits. That’s what we found in one of the first studies of its kind regarding the financial accounts often called DAFs. People with donor-advised funds use them to give money… Read more »
By Jon Bergdoll and Anna Pruitt, Ph.D. Giving USA, researched at the Indiana University Lilly Family School in partnership with Giving USA Foundation, is the longest running and most trusted annual report about U.S. philanthropy. Each year, Giving USA publishes an estimate of total charitable giving in the U.S. In 2020, that estimate reached a… Read more »
By Anna Pruitt and Jon Bergdoll A flood of donations to support COVID-19 relief and racial justice efforts, coupled with stock market gains, led Americans to give a record US$471 billion to charity in 2020. The total donated to charity rose 3.8% from the prior year in inflation-adjusted terms, according to the latest annual Giving… Read more »
For the past four years, the Philanthropy Outlook, a publication made possible by a partnership between the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and Marts & Lundy, a leading fundraising and philanthropy consulting firm, has used a forecasting model to test variables to predict baseline measures of giving for the four sources of giving (individuals, foundations,… Read more »