Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In my 30 years working to bring corporations and nonprofits together, Ive seen how nonprofits, despite their critical work and deep community connections, struggle to secure the financial and strategic support they need to expand their programs and sustain their teams. Blank, co-founder of Home Depot and chair of the Arthur M.

Pass-Through

Candid

MAY 1, 2025

501(c)(3) nonprofits are very small organizations with annual budgets below $50,000. These very small organizations are often overlooked both by donors and research about the sector, in part because we know much less about them than about other nonprofits. nonprofits are very small. The majority of U.S.

Demographics

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Paying it forward is simply what nonprofits, schools, foundations, and their supporters do. Kimberly Townsend Pierce, Chester County Hospital Foundation Throw a Brick Bash for Sustainers “Since the launch of the Brick Program in 2019, we have generated thousands of dollars in revenue. Donors share their good fortune with those in need.

Fundraising

Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Fundraising and AI Nonprofit fundraising in an election year is especially tough. Not surprisingly, the Candid insights article with the most pageviews brings together two hot topics, one cyclical and one perennial: elections and nonprofit fundraising. Is your nonprofit organization grant-ready? What can fundraisers do?

AI

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

Major donations and planned gifts often get the limelight, but without annual gifts, the day-to-day functions of your nonprofit could come to a halt. What this looks like depends on your organization’s type and the programs it funds. Unrestricted funds: A defining characteristic is that annual gifts are typically unrestricted.

Donation

Candid

AUGUST 7, 2025

Candid’s 2025 Nonprofit Compensation Report provides salaries and benefits data for 14 executive positions—CEO/executive director and top administrative, business, development, education, facilities, financial, and HR jobs—from the 2023 IRS filings of more than 130,000 tax-exempt organizations (excluding private foundations).

Consultant

Candid

APRIL 15, 2025

nonprofits saw an average 1.9% Online giving (based on data from 5,151 nonprofit organizations with over $3.4 for midsize nonprofits with revenue between $1 million and $10 million and 1.1% for midsize nonprofits with revenue between $1 million and $10 million and 1.1% of giving for small nonprofits, compared with 8.3%

Policies

Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Yet, despite the generosity of donors, the allocation of funds to nonprofits has often lacked consistency, predictability, and equity—factors critical to ensuring long-term impact and sustainability in the sector. For example, the year 2020 saw a 26% increase in individual donations to human services nonprofits (e.g.

Funding

DoJiggy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

nonprofit sector by providing information, reviews, and ratings for charitable and nonprofit organizations. Despite being grouped under the same umbrella, these watchdogs have distinct missions, operate differently, and can impact your ability to raise necessary funds in various ways. million nonprofits.

Finance

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Foundation Source , a cloud-based platform than manages family, corporate and professionally staffed foundations, acquired Vennfi, the financial technology company powering Charityvest, a donor-advised fund (DAF) sponsor. The post Foundation Source Acquires Parent of Charityvest appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

Management

Candid

APRIL 14, 2025

Nonprofits have struggled for years to understandand ideally reversethe declining numbers of everyday donors and volunteers who engage with their organizations. What can nonprofits learn from existing researchand peer organizationsto turn this narrative around? To reach millions more, however, nonprofits will need to try something new.

Media

Candid

JANUARY 22, 2025

Nonprofits and grantmakers alike increasingly recognize that listening to their ultimate constituents is essential to their mission. Indeed, a recent assessment commissioned by the Fund for Shared Insight found that a growing number of organizations are engaging in listening and feedback practices.

Goals

Future Fundraising Now

JUNE 12, 2025

A lot of fundraisers feel caught in a trap: We are required to raise unrestricted (or undesignated) funds most or all of the time. But specificity looks like restricted funds! I asked a prominent accountant who specializes in US nonprofit accounting. Good news: It’s possible to do both!

Fundraising

Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

If you’re reading this, you probably already know about the problems that nonprofits like yours are facing with their insurance: Rising insurance premiums, poor coverage from commercial insurance carriers, and in some cases, the loss of coverage altogether. Many of these nonprofits have never made a claim.

Insurance

Bonterra

JULY 16, 2025

CSR fun fact: Since 2019, HP has used over 1 billion pounds of recycled materials in their products and packaging. The section of their website devoted to “purpose” states that, through nonprofit partnerships, they’ve leveraged social impact grants and their own Cisco Networking Academy to impact over one billion people.

Ethics

Future Fundraising Now

APRIL 9, 2025

Let me show you how it happens by describing a very typical nonprofit homepage. Your website may have duties other than raising funds. It’s even possible that those duties are more important than raising funds — like ticket sales for arts organization, or patient services for health organizations. Fair enough.

Nonprofit

Candid

MAY 12, 2021

To date, there are still millions of returns from 2019 that have not yet been processed. This gap is notable because IRS 990 filings are a substantial source of data about nonprofits and foundation grantmaking in the U.S. COVID-19 has exacerbated the problem, especially for 2019 and 2020 data. A status update on filings.

Grant

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

JANUARY 14, 2021

Last year many arts and culture nonprofits struggling to cope with closures and restrictions in the wake of COVID-19 were able to take advantage of multiple relief grants and funding, chief among them funds made available through the CARE Act and forgivable loans that were part of the Paycheck Protection Program (known as ‘PPP’).

Funding

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. EVERY nonprofit has stories to tell! In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch.

Funding

Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

funding from foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, the U.S. federal government, corporations, and donations through donor-advised funds (DAFs) and online platforms. . We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. . In it, we examined?available?2019?data

Award

Candid

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Over the past five years, nonprofit arts organizations have maneuvered through pandemic shutdowns, evolving audience behaviors, and the relentless pressure of inflation. We analyzed data provided by 743 organizations via SMU DataArts’ Cultural Data Profile from 2019 to 2023, revealing the complexities beneath the surface.

Government

Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. What Are Restricted Funds? Restricted funds often outline what they will fund and what they won’t.

Funding

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MARCH 21, 2023

By Glenn Gamboa, AP Business Writer Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Since 2019, when MacKenzie Scott pledged to donate the majority of her wealth, she has given more than $14 billion in unrestricted funds to 1,600 nonprofit organizations. According to Forbes, she is currently worth more than $26 billion.

Donation

NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The 2022 Donor-Advised Fund Report details growth in all key DAF metrics for the 12th consecutive year. The new report also reveals DAF grantmaking to charities around the world grew 60% compared to pre-pandemic 2019 and increased 400% over the past decade.

Funding

RBW Strategy

MAY 14, 2024

Challenge RBW Strategy first partnered with 2019 to support a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant application. RBW Strategy’s support has led to additional new grant awards with an expanded number of funders, as well as additional federal grants since the original SAMHSA collaboration back in 2019.

SAMHSA

Candid

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Do you know how to tap into donor-advised fund (DAF) giving, an increasingly popular way to give, including among younger donors? Here’s what you need to know about the way DAFs work, the benefits and challenges to donors and recipients, and how nonprofits can take advantage of their growth. The basics: What is a donor-advised fund?

Funding

Candid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are the fastest-growing giving vehicle today, and DAF donors are bucking the downward trend in donor participation , according to the 2024 DAF Fundraising Report. More than half the nonprofits saw increases of more than 200% in DAF revenue, while more than a quarter saw non-DAF revenue decline over the same period.

Fundraising

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By Alex Daniels JUST Community The nonprofit Just Community provides coaching and offers business loans to encourage women entrepreneurs to save money.

Grant

Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

tax-exempt organizations file annually, are a major source of data about nonprofits and foundation grantmaking in the United States. Before the pandemic, Candid usually received comprehensive IRS 990 data about nonprofits and foundations about 1.5–2 In contrast, 2019 and 2020 fiscals are lagging at 24 months. We invite all U.S.

Electronics

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. Here are three kinds of fundraising events that work for most nonprofits and how to choose the right one for you. You already know that every dollar counts in your nonprofit. Diverse funding streams are the key to success. Probably not!)

Fundraising

Candid

JULY 20, 2022

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. We are still a long way away from being where we were economically and socially even in 2019.”

Transportation

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Just about every nonprofit made major changes in 2020. Like a balloon that you inflate and let the air escape from, your nonprofit isn’t going to look the same after. Today is the day you’re going to shed the “vacation” mentality of training your nonprofit staff and volunteers. Here are five steps to get them there.

Training

GrantNews

MARCH 8, 2024

The team at GrantWatch wants to help our extended community of subscribers and folks everywhere find the funding they need for affordable housing. We aren’t out of the woods yet since rent prices are still 30% higher now than they were in 2019. Funding includes housing and shelter referral. Something needs to be done.

Grant

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

donors gave to nonprofits during 2023, according to data from Giving USA, is a high-water mark in terms of current dollars, and the amount exceeds pre-COVID-19 pandemic-giving, which peaked during 2019. The point is that nonprofit donations are not keeping up with inflation, and that trend cuts across nearly all funding sources.

Donation

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s that time of year – time to create your nonprofit annual report. An annual report is a great way to give both donors and the community an overview of what your nonprofit accomplished during the year. The 1-Page Nonprofit Annual Report The 1-page nonprofit annual report is basically a big infographic.

Template

Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

And 2023 set records in disaster relief funding. The Maui wildfire response The Maui wildfires in August, which affected Lahaina and Kula, stand out for the funds raised. In looking at Candid’s Foundation 1000 research sets, excluding epidemic-related funding, including for the COVID-19 pandemic, these large U.S.

IT

Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I was also interested to learn that 40% of foundation leaders interviewed said they have begun or are increasingly focused on better collecting and using demographic data about nonprofits they fund and the people they serve. Firstly, it reduces the burden on nonprofits by offering a single, centralized way to share demographic data.

Demographics