Weekly Reads—March 29, 2024

Enjoy PEAK’s weekly roundup of timely insights from the grantmaking community and beyond.

“Robert Wood Johnson’s support for reparations goes far beyond the $2 million it has put behind the New Jersey Reparations Council. Over the past few years, the foundation has provided a total of more than $5 million in grants to university researchers, policy advocates, and communications experts to change public perceptions of reparations at the state and national levels.” [more]
Alex Daniels, The Chronicle of Philanthropy

“Candid invites nonprofits to update their demographic data every year. This is important because assessing demographic changes over time requires having multiple years of data from nonprofits. Just over half (52%) of nonprofits that have shared demographic information since 2019 have done so more than once. It’s exciting that most organizations aren’t taking a “one and done” approach to sharing demographic data with Candid.” [more]
Mantin Diomandé, Candid

“[M]ost initiatives that track philanthropic data are both the only source of the information they provide and rely heavily on grants and foundation funding to continue. When research teams, centers, or funding disappears, data sets and analysis often do, too.” [more]
Jeff Williams and Alexandra Akaakar, Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy

“Fewer than a third of foundations fund nonprofit endowments, according to new research by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and for those that do, these grants represent a small fraction of their giving. While in recent years endowment giving has been championed as a way to advance equity, CEP’s new research finds that for those foundations that do fund endowments, advancing equity is not their primary consideration.” [more]
The Center for Effective Philanthropy