Community foundation
A public charity that pools donations to fund causes in a specific place.
A community foundation is a public charity that gathers gifts from many donors to support nonprofits in a particular city or region. It often holds donor-advised funds on behalf of local donors and makes grants from pooled endowments.
Because they serve a place, community foundations tend to release most of their money to working charities, often nearby, rather than holding it in the regranting layer.
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- What is a community foundation?
- A public charity that pools donations to fund causes in a specific place. A community foundation is a public charity that gathers gifts from many donors to support nonprofits in a particular city or region. It often holds donor-advised funds on behalf of local donors and makes grants from pooled endowments.
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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home