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Arts nonprofits saw revenue fall in every category in 2024. What lies ahead? 

Candid

Since 2019, U.S. To help navigate the increasingly complex challenges ahead, SMU DataArts analyzed trends based on financial data from 6,498 arts nonprofits that submitted a Cultural Data Profile between fiscal years 2019 and 2024. Here are the key findings and their implications for the field.

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The ‘invisible majority’: What we know about very small nonprofits

Candid

501(c)(3) nonprofits are very small organizations with annual budgets below $50,000. of funding between 2019 and 2023. Very small nonprofits with budgets below $50,000 make up the majority of the U.S. Did you know? The majority of U.S. Thats less than the median U.S. household income ($80,610 in 2023). nonprofits are very small.

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2025 Nonprofit Compensation Report: Where do we stand?

Candid

Based on what we’ve heard, here are the main use cases: For nonprofit CEOs: Attract and retain top talent with competitive compensation The 2025 Nonprofit Compensation Report provides benchmarks for each position: average, median, and 25th- and 75th-percentile compensation levels for nonprofits by region, issue area, and budget bracket.

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Annual Giving Basics: A Fundamental Guide for Yearly Donations

Blackbaud

Revenue per donor is increasing: The average donor gave $865 in 2023 compared to $673 in 2019. Total donor count is decreasing: The number of donors who gave in 2023 decreased by 5.3% compared to the previous year.

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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. The GREAT Act requires that federal grant recipients establish and use data standards for information reported to funding agencies.

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

Blue Avocado

The chart below illustrates the average cost per to settle claims at from 2020 to 2024 relative to those received in 2019. Whenever possible, we make increases in increments over several years to allow nonprofits budgets to catch up. The dip from 2021-2022 was related to less activity stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Do you have enough wild ideas?

Future Fundraising Now

We’d discovered that they were dramatically over-spending their budget in one area of donor acquisition. This post first appeared on April 12, 2019.) This was a big deal for us. And I had an idea. And it just happened that area was a specialty of their agency. Yeah, big shock, right?) And if you get the chance, read Walden.