Ramadan Drives Donations and Memberships to Giving Circles
The pandemic has driven growing interest in pooling funds, as Muslims work to distribute money from donor-advised funds and other sources.
By Haleluya Hadero
Contributor
New research from a critic of donor-advised funds is based on tax records that show just how much charities received over five years.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
If a foundation lacks an authentic awareness or commitment to diversity and inclusion, requiring higher asset distribution may exacerbate the very inequities advocates are working to reverse.
By Kyle Caldwell
Contributor
We Agree, Foundations Should Be Held Accountable for High Salaries and Staggering Expenses
Two former foundation officials support the idea of challenging the “staggering” redirection of charitable dollars to pay for “bloated foundation staff” and administrative expenses.
Conservatives Should Applaud — Not Fight — Efforts to Change Philanthropic Giving Rules
Rather than attacking proposals to overhaul donor-advised funds and other giving practices, conservative groups need to focus on the real culprit — the growing use of donor dollars to support political activities.
Community Foundations Report 41% Bump in Grants From Donor-Advised Funds
For every dollar that came in to a community foundation’s donor-advised fund in 2020, 87 cents went out.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
Donor-Advised-Fund Claims Spark Pushback From Critics
Fidelity’s announced last week that its donors directed $9.1 billion to charity last year; still, critics say donor-advised-fund sponsors exaggerated how much money is actually flowing to working charities.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
Fidelity Charitable Donors Channeled $9.1 Billion to Charities Amid the Pandemic
That is a surge of 24 percent and comes as the biggest donor-advised fund sponsor received more than $14 billion in 2020. Still, charities say they are struggling to meet needs and have made many job cuts.
By Glenn Gamboa
Contributor
A Close Look at the Pooled Funds That Are Shaking Up Philanthropy
Organizers of pooled funds and other efforts to get foundations to collaborate have used them as a test bed for changes they’d like to see in philanthropy.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
‘Hate Groups’ Received Millions From 351 Charities and Foundations, Chronicle Review Finds
Foundations and donor-advised funds directed more than $50 million in charitable funds from 2013 and 2018 to nonprofits designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
Donor-Advised Funds Channeled 30% More Dollars to Charities in First Half of 2020
People with advised funds provided $8.3 billion over the first six months of 2020 compared with the same time in 2019, according to a new report from the National Philanthropic Trust.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
We Need to Fix Problematic Charitable Giving Laws. The Biden Administration Can Help.
It’s time to overhaul tax laws that favor wealthy white donors, encourage delayed giving, and fail to prevent nonprofit fraud and abuse.
By Roger Colinvaux
Contributor
Foundations That Want to Support Local Journalism Should Take a Close Look at Alt Weeklies
For relatively small investments, philanthropy could help preserve some of the most important local journalism around—and fend off growing rightwing “news” sites.
By David Wallis
Contributor
In Defense of the Jewish Future Pledge
Endowments like this one are not some nefarious plot to control the world from beyond the grave. They are simply a way to set aside money to protect the values and institutions we care about for future generations.
Community Foundations Wrestle Over Whether to Accept Government Help
With Congress negotiating a renewal of the Paycheck Protection Program, debate may rise anew within community foundation over whether their pursuit of the loans would siphon funds from service-providing nonprofits.
Plan to Boost Donor Payout Faces Long Odds in Congress, but Some Advocates Say the Timing Is Right
A plan to rewrite federal rules governing how quickly money from foundation endowments and donor-advised funds must be given out to charity faces long odds in a new Congress that will be busy dealing with a lengthy list of other pressing issues, according to some nonprofit leaders.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter