Conservative Foundations Aren’t Racing to Change Grants Strategy Because of Trump
Concerns about the president’s ideological allegiance and his troubled White House may be getting in the way of an aggressive approach by right-leaning grant makers.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Grants Roundup: Late ‘Simpsons’ Co-Creator’s Fund Debuts With $1 Million PETA Grant
Other notable awards include $20.5 million from the H&M Foundation to help three global aid groups show the effectiveness of their work.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Ford Foundation to Return to Detroit With Satellite Office
The grant maker is re-establishing a physical presence in its native city 64 years after moving its headquarters to New York. Also, Google co-founder Sergey Brin is reportedly building the world’s largest aircraft with a charitable purpose in mind.
Commercial giants like Goldman Sachs and BlackRock are the big players in a burgeoning field, but philanthropic institutions increasingly view their investments as tools to tackle the world’s toughest problems.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
What Happens to Giving as Impact Investing Grows?
Some donors say the strategy is changing how they give in powerful ways; others doubt that it can displace traditional philanthropy, especially with causes like feeding the hungry.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Building the Market for Impact Investments
Charities and foundations are tackling gaps in impact investing’s infrastructure to help fulfill the field’s promise of social and environmental change.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Impact-Investing Pioneers Take Stock
For more than a decade, the Heron and Northwest Area foundations have invested their endowments with the goal of spurring social good. They’re drawing on lessons learned to tweak their approaches.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Inside Ford’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Mission Investing
Fifteen years after putting money from its program budget into Tesla as part of its environmental and economic-development strategy, the foundation is staking a hefty chunk of its endowment on similarly mission-focused investments.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
How Nonprofit Endowments Performed
This interactive database has survey data collected by The Chronicle on hundreds of nonprofit endowments going back to 2003. New to this year’s report is historical information on hundreds of groups using information from IRS form 990s and 990PFs.
By Peter Olsen-Phillips
Contributor
How The Chronicle Compiled Its 2017 Report on Nonprofit Endowments
We surveyed hundreds of large nonprofits about their investment funds and drew data from IRS filings by more than 7,000 charities and foundations.
By Peter Olsen-Phillips
Contributor