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Foundation funding by state: Where do grant dollars come from and where do they go? 

Candid

Foundations award billions of dollars in grants across the United States each year. The dashboards’ maps and graphs show grant dollars from two complementary perspectives: funding awarded to nonprofits in each state, and funding awarded by private and community foundations based in each state. Ready to jump in?

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The State of DAFs in 2025: Updates on Donor-Advised Funds

Get Fully Funded

Karen leverages her deep nonprofit, executive, and board expertise to bring an award-winning cash management experience to nonprofits all over the US. Karen has received WITs Woman of the Year Award and was listed as one of Salesforces 10 Small Business Women Who Inspire in 2019.

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Comparison of the Best Charity Watchdogs and Charity Badges

DoJiggy

Candid (GuideStar) Candid was formed in 2019 through the merger of GuideStar and the Foundation Center. Top-Rated Awards : Charities with a large number of positive reviews can receive a Top-Rated awards badge. It provides comprehensive data on nonprofit organizations, including their financials, operations, and impact.

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

The Grants Transparency Act complements the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act passed in 2019. Each grant-making agency is charged with ensuring its awards use the data standards for future information collection requests. It does not appear that the data elements have been finalized.

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Why Are Nonprofits Experiencing An Insurance Crisis? And What Can the Nonprofit Sector Do About it?

Blue Avocado

It would be better if one or two nonprofits fail because of a large jury award, than the entire nonprofit sector lose its ability to be insured. Juries will award huge sums without regard to damages or the culpability of the nonprofit. Those higher limits that have been required in the past are like catnip to plaintiff attorneys.

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Where are the 2019 (and 2020) 990s? On filling the gaps in Candid’s grants data

Candid

To date, there are still millions of returns from 2019 that have not yet been processed. COVID-19 has exacerbated the problem, especially for 2019 and 2020 data. As the charts below illustrate, we’re far from having comprehensive data for 2019, let alone 2020. This year, another factor is in play: backlogs created by COVID-19.

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Is There Racial Bias in Awarding Federal Grants?

ProposalPRO

2019 , Ginther et al., Or, to say that another way, the issues Black scientists most want to address appeared to hold the least value for those awarding NIH grants. Women and racial minorities were far less likely to be experienced in the grants process, or to win grant awards. 2016 , Ginther et al.,