The DAFRC research team hopes this data will be used to improve best practices, inform relevant regulation, or enhance the field’s use of DAFs as a philanthropic tool for donors, DAF sponsoring organizations, and other sector partners.

At Exponent Philanthropy, we help lean funders collect feedback from their communities through the Grantee and Applicant Perception Survey. Over the past 2 years, we’ve worked with six foundations to survey more than 400 nonprofits to learn what lean funders do well and where they can improve.

Investments in early care and education have been a throughline for OFL; this resource shares institutional knowledge and demonstrates the critical inflection points in which philanthropy helped move advancements in the 0-5 space. 

The only comprehensive data on charitable organizations dedicated to women and girls, the Women & Girls Index (WGI) tracks the landscape of women’s and girls’ organizations in the U.S., including the amount of philanthropic support they receive from individuals, foundations, and corporations.

This page includes a link to a searchable database of organizations included in the WGI, key statistics from the research, research reports and news articles on the WGI, and FAQs about the Index.

Racial equity is crucial to effective philanthropy, and lean foundations—those with few or no staff—are uniquely positioned to make a significant impact. Our 2024 publication, “Racial Equity in Lean Foundations: The Lean Funder’s Equity Journey,” delves into how these foundations are incorporating racial equity into their work to drive better decisions, achieve more equitable outcomes, and amplify their philanthropic impact.

Collected through FOMR data, surveys, and interviews with members, this report centers on the relevance of racial equity to our members’ mission, as well as their board and staff demographics. We also describe how racial equity relates to good governance, grantmaking, and investment practices. New in the 2023 report, we focus on allyship and use Service Never Sleeps’ CLAIM framework (Care, Learn, Act, Influence, Maintain) to help you explore what it means to adopt an allyship approach in your philanthropy. 

Collected through FOMR data, surveys, and interviews with members, this report centers on the relevance of racial equity to Exponent Philanthropy members’ mission, as well as their board and staff demographics. It also describe how racial equity relates to good governance, grantmaking, and investment practices.

Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) offers this analysis as a call to action to the field to bring our practices into alignment with their promises and meet the creativity, vitality, and reality of social justice organizing today. Within the field of human rights philanthropy, they have spent much of the last decade asking how we can break down silos and move money to movements organizing in powerful, intersectional ways. This report offers a baseline of where the field is today. The research suggests that a resoundingly small fraction of human rights funding supports activism that cuts across multiple communities or issues.

This report examines data from 976 charitable organizations which sponsor donor-advised funds (DAFs). The results show increases in every key metric for the eleventh consecutive year.

This databook examines the important role of youth advisory committees in community foundations across the state.