This is an in-depth analysis of donor-advised funds from a Community Foundation perspective.

The Michigan League for Public Policy's (MLPP) Kids Count in Michigan Data Book explores state and county outcomes in four domains of child well-being: family and community, economic security, education, and health and safety.

This report examines how households make charitable decisions. The report analyzes the first new data on this topic in 15 years, and finds that household giving dynamics are changing, with fewer couples making decisions jointly.

From February 3 through 21, 2025, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) surveyed leaders of nonprofit organizations across the United States that receive funding from foundations that give at least $5 million in grants annually. The report's findings summarize nonprofit leaders’ most pressing concerns with the current political climate and what they would find most helpful from their foundation funders.

Foundation leaders report that their foundations are now working differently than they were in early 2020 — and that they plan to continue most of these changes in a post-pandemic future.

This report covers how foundations pivoted during a crisis to survive. 

Corporate Insights into the CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity presents an update on what has been heard from corporate leaders in response to the A CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity and what it means for what comes next.

This databook provides a snapshot of Michigan community foundations for benchmarking and storytelling.

Our 2025 survey of hundreds of family philanthropies across the country affirms that over the past 10 years donors have made positive, if incremental, progress toward effective practice. However, change has been too slow and too superficial to yield the lasting transformation we seek.

This is a report on who family-owned foundations lose their way.