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 Tessa Skidmore, Jacqueline Ackerman and Jon Bergdoll The #MeToo movement gained traction in late 2017 and continued to grow the following year, as countless women shared their experiences with sexual harassment, abuse and assault. But donations to women’s and girls’ organizations made up just 1.92% of all charitable giving in 2018, the most recent… 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 »
By Jon Bergdoll Hi folks. I’m Jon Bergdoll, statistician here at the school, lead analyst for Giving USA, the Philanthropy Outlook, and several other projects and reports the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy has generated over the years. We’re trying something a little new and different here, so let us know if it strikes your… Read more »