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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. Now, with Candid’s two new dashboards— Grant recipients by state and Foundations by state —on Tableau Public , you can explore both questions for yourself. The “About” tabs offer more information about the underlying data set for each dashboard.

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

Get Fully Funded

Grants from DAFs to nonprofits declined somewhat , going from $55.53 The average DAF payout rate (the percentage of grants made relative to the charitable assets available) was almost 24%. With this funding available, securing DAF grants has become a staple of smart nonprofit cash management. billion in 2022 to $54.77

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

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Ive been writing grant proposals since dinosaurs walked the earth and have seen various attempts to reform the federal grant-making process. Congress passed the Grants Transparency Act of 2023 (H.R. The Grants Transparency Act complements the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act passed in 2019.

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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. At Candid, grants data from 990s flows into tools such as Foundation Directory , public dashboards that provide insights into philanthropy in different regions across the U.S., 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

As with anything in the government grants space, it is complicated. There is evidence that government grants are not distributed equitably. 2019 , Ginther et al., 2011 ), that Black scientists are only half as likely as White scientists to win NIH R01 research grants, one of the agency’s most common research project grants.

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

If you’re won a federal grant, you know you owe your good fortune to the independent grant reviewers who highly rated your proposal. Studies on the topic indicate that expert peer reviewers can select strongly written grant applications but cannot necessarily predict which projects will successfully achieve stated objectives.