With community foundations continuing to serve as highly active players during the pandemic's second year, nearly every asset size cohort saw increases in these metrics for the second consecutive year. Medians across the field tend to scale up along with asset size, with larger community foundations achieving an economy of scale. (n=193)
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In FY21, the median community foundation saw gift totals increase by over 14 percent, and over a quarter of survey respondents reported that their fundraising totals increased by more than half over the previous year.
Longitudinal tracking of growth in assets, gifts, and grants is done using a consistent sample of the largest 100 community foundations by asset size, who together hold over 90 percent of the dollars in the field. This group's collective asset total grew by nearly 25 percent over FY20. Fundraising growth accelerated considerably, increasing by 54 percent, with grantmaking also increasing by nearly 10 percent.