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

CEP’s 2025 State of Nonprofits report examines how nonprofits are faring right now and what they need from their funders.

For 36 years, the KIDS COUNT® Data Book has provided a clear, consistent overview of children’s well-being, using federal data collected across all 50 states. These reliable national and state-level measures help leaders see where there is progress, where greater support is needed and which strategies are making a difference. By offering both a big-picture view and a local road map, the Data Book provides policymakers, advocates and communities with the information they need to make decisions that help kids and young people thrive.

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.