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“Seeding by ceding”: What we know about the latest group of organizations funded by MacKenzie Scott

Candid

Editor’s note: Scott awarded a grant to Candid.) . i Although Scott discloses who receives donations, she does not say how much is awarded to each organization, so we do not yet have information about grant size distribution in this round of giving. Therefore, each chart contains information about how many grantees are represented.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

The collective knowledge of our Leadership Council makes the Classy Awards a distinction unlike any other. Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Chief Philanthropy Officer. Kimberly Mitchell.

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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

Candid

At Candid, we collect data on millions of grants and other transactions awarded by hundreds of thousands of funders across the globe. In comparison, our Foundation 1000 data set is limited to grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a set of 1,000 of the largest U.S. foundations in a given year (see chart below).

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Upcoming Webinar March 29: Mapping Philanthropy - Data Visualization for Good

Tech Soup

The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. In April 2011, he was the lead developer on a project that won the Large Organization award in the World Bank's "Apps for Development" contest. Pacific time.

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Where are the 2019 (and 2020) 990s? On filling the gaps in Candid’s grants data

Candid

At Candid, grants data from 990s flows into tools such as Foundation Directory , public dashboards that provide insights into philanthropy in different regions across the U.S., As the charts below illustrate, we’re far from having comprehensive data for 2019, let alone 2020. A status update on filings.

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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

All this work would be significantly more difficult if it weren’t for Candid’s taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (or PCS). Candid codes much of its data according to the PCS, including organizations, grants awarded, funding opportunities, news, and more. cash grants, program-related investments); and organization type.

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How do grantmaker CEO salaries compare with other staff? 

Candid

iii As the size of the grantmaker rises–as measured by grant dollars awarded or the total number of full- and part-time staff)–so does the ratio. When compared to their counterparts outside of philanthropy, CEO salaries at grantmaking organizations appear to be much closer to parity with their average staff member.

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