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The Council on Foundations is a nonprofit membership association that serves as a guide for philanthropies as they advance the greater good. Building on our 75-year history, the Council supports over 1,000 member organizations in the United States and around the world to build trust in philanthropy…

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Potential Implications of Funding Protest Activities

https://cof.org/content/potential-implications-funding-protest-activities

Developed for the Council on Foundations by Christopher J. Armstrong, Partner at Holland & Knight The Current Environment Foundations are under increasing political scrutiny regarding their relationships with organizations that have engaged in protests, especially in situations where…

Snapshot of Funder Progress on Locally Led Development (Sept. 2025)

https://cof.org/content/snapshot-funder-progress-locally-led-development-sept-2025

In September 2023, a group of 15 foundations joined 20 bilateral donors in signing a Donor Statement committing to advancing locally led development. After recent global shifts in foreign assistance and the dismantling of USAID, the Council on Foundations wanted to understand how philanthropy has…

Creating an Inactive Funds Policy

https://cof.org/content/creating-inactive-funds-policy

Imagine the following scenarios: A donor advisor has not made a recommendation from a donor-advised fund for two years. An agency has requested that your community foundation not make a distribution from an agency endowment until the agency requests a distribution at some point in the…

Shifting Practices, Sharing Power? How U.S. Philanthropy is Responding to the 2020 Crises

https://cof.org/content/shifting-practices-sharing-power-how-us-philanthropy-responding-2020-crises

The public health and economic crises of 2020 have affected millions of Americans and laid bare the glaring inequities in our systems and institutions. A new report from Council on Foundations, Philanthropy California, and Dalberg Advisors outlines how the US philanthropic sector is…

Survey Results: The Operation of Women’s Funds at Community Foundations

https://cof.org/content/survey-results-operation-womens-funds-community-foundations

After a request by a CF Insights member seeking information about the operation of Women's Funds at community foundation, a survey was created and administered to a subset of potential respondents. This short, eight-question survey collected some high-level information about fees pricing, revenue…

FAQ: Agency Endowment Funds

https://cof.org/content/faq-agency-endowment-funds

What is an agency endowment? What types of organization can establish an agency endowment at a community foundation? When a public charity establishes an agency endowment at a community foundation, which organization owns the contributed funds? Since the agency is releasing legal…

Administrative Fees

https://cof.org/content/administrative-fees

Community foundations have one thing in common: When it comes to administrative fee structures, no two are alike. While there's no one right answer, it's important to review and compare your foundation’s fee structure to other foundations of comparable size. Many community foundations are doing…