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Advancing Locally Led Development: An Overview of U.S. Foundations’ Direct Global Giving

JasonLudwig — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:02:32 +0000

Advancing Locally Led Development: An Overview of U.S. Foundations’ Direct Global Giving JasonLudwig Tue, 11/07/2023 - 14:02

Advancing Locally Led Development: An Overview of U.S. Foundations’ Direct Global Giving

Since 1997, the Council on Foundations and Candid have analyzed trends in global grantmaking by U.S. foundations. In our State of Global Giving by U.S. Foundations: 2022 Edition report, which analyzed grants made between 2016 and 2019, we found that 39% of global grants made by U.S. foundations flowed to non-U.S. recipients. Of the total grant amount intended for international causes, only about 13% flowed to organizations implementing a grant in the country where they are locally registered. The remaining 26% flowed through intermediaries based outside the United States.

This report is an attempt to dig deeper into the data included in the State of Global Giving by U.S. Foundations: 2022 Edition and better understand direct global grantmaking by U.S. foundations: What is included in this 13% of global funding flows? Who is making the most direct grants, and who are they funding? What issues do grants address?

Key Findings

Only 29% of globally focused U.S. foundations made at least one direct grant, with a median of five direct grants, during the 2016-2019 period.
The top 25 global funders account for more than 75% of direct giving between 2016 and 2019.
Almost half of foundations providing direct giving in the period 2016-2019 exclusively supported organizations in the so-called "Global North": Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, and European countries.
The share of direct grant dollars going to "Global South" organizations declined each year from 2016 to 2019, peaking in 2016 at 64% and falling to 40% in 2019.
And more.

Past International Grantmaking Reports

This report is a companion piece to the State of Global Giving by U.S. Foundations: 2022 Edition, also a collaboration between Candid and the Council to regularly analyze trends in international grantmaking by U.S. foundations. You can see the full collection of reports we’ve co-published about international grantmaking by US foundations since 1997 on IssueLab.

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The State of Global Giving by U.S. Foundations: 2022 Edition

council-webteam — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:27:54 +0000

The State of Global Giving by U.S. Foundations: 2022 Edition council-webteam Tue, 09/20/2022 - 12:27

The State of Global Giving by U.S. Foundations: 2022 Edition

For 25 years, the Council on Foundations and Candid have partnered on studies of globally focused giving by U.S. foundations. The new edition of The State of Global Giving by U.S. Foundations dives into 2016-2019 data to provide the latest perspective on how the nation’s foundations are supporting critical efforts to improve health outcomes, address climate change, offer access to education, ensure human rights, and engage with a wide array of other global priorities. Through interviews with a selection of global funders, Global Giving also offers insights on how foundations are addressing the critical challenges of our time and where they see signs of optimism and opportunity going forward.

Key Report Findings

U.S. private and community foundations included in Candid’s Foundation 1000 dataset awarded globally focused grants totaling $8 billion in 2019—close to four times the approximately $2.2 billion awarded in 2002.
Health accounted for 49 percent of global grant dollars.
The largest shares of funding focused on the Sub-Saharan Africa (25.1%) and Asia & Pacific (17.7%) regions.
Among the many issue areas supported by foundations, human rights has realized the fastest growth in global support in recent years. In the 2016-2019 period, human rights reached 11 percent of global foundation grant dollars, up from less than 7 percent in the 2011-2015 period.
Roughly 13 percent of U.S. foundations’ global grant dollars went directly to organizations based in the country where programs were implemented in the 2016-2019 period, up marginally from approximately 12 percent in the 2011-2015 period.
Funding by Foundation 1000 foundations for efforts to counter or mitigate the impact of climate change in the United States and globally totaled nearly $1.8 billion in the 2016-2019 period, up from $1.3 billion in the 2011-2015 period.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation accounted for 44% of global giving by U.S. foundations from 2016 to 2019.

Past International Grantmaking Reports

This report is the latest in a decades-long collaboration between Candid and the Council to regularly analyze trends in international grantmaking by U.S. foundations. You can see the full collection of reports we’ve co-published about international grantmaking by US foundations since 1997 on IssueLab.

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CFExpress Training: Module 16

brian.kastner@cof.org — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:14:14 +0000

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Bonus module 16 on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is included in the CFExpressTraining.com - an online express training for board members, staff, and volunteers of community foundations of any size anywhere in America. Courtesy of C. S. Mott Foundation, all community foundations receive a $400 discount on a purchase of a new group license, use code Mott_SDGs_2020 at checkout. The bonus Module on Sustainable Development Goals is a tremendous addition to the express training program. Module 16 may jog board and staff discussions on systemic change, equity, and the application of the ready-made tool for donor and program development, investments and operations, internal culture building, and alignment of the budget to allow for all to be “rowing” in the same direction.

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The SDG Guidebook and Toolkit: A Community Foundation Resource on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

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This resource from the Community Foundations of Canada provides useful tips and frameworks for community foundations across the world to utilize the SDGs.

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This publication, jointly developed by Fundación ONCE and Philea (formerly the European Foundation Centre), focuses on how the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals are serving as a framework for foundations to develop their action on disability inclusion. The publication includes key reflections on this topic as well as examples and testimonies of 11 relevant foundations from nine countries -France, the UK, Italy, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Netherlands, Turkey, and Georgia. The publication has been developed in the framework of Disability Hub Europe, an initiative led by Fundación ONCE with the co-funding of the European Social Fund.

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Connecting Community Foundations with the SDGs (Europe)

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The European Community Foundation Initiative report provides in-depth examples of community foundations throughout Europe adopting the SDGs and how they can work towards achieving the goals.

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Philanthropy University, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and GSVlabs published a new report on the SDGs and how the various sectors, including philanthropy, can drive progress towards achieving the SDGs.

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