Candid

JUNE 5, 2023

Every year, Candid processes data on nearly two million organizations and more than three million grants. All this work would be significantly more difficult if it weren’t for Candid’s taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (or PCS). A taxonomy is simply a system of classification, or a way of organizing things.

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Taxonomy Proposal Comment Change 98

Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. At Candid, we collect data on millions of grants and other transactions awarded by hundreds of thousands of funders across the globe. foundations in a given year (see chart below). Pledges are excluded.

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Analysis Foundation Trend Course 116

Candid

MAY 4, 2023

The chart below compares the proportion of nonprofits by subject area overall (in blue) with that of the subset of nonprofits sharing demographic data (in orange). The subject area is based on the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE). Demographic data sharing varies by nonprofit subject category. Source: Candid, 2023.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

You can search and visualize media funding by the following: Show Grants By : Explore data for funders (blue) or recipients (orange). More Filters and Advanced Search: Tailor your search by funder type, grant amount, population served, keyword and more. List: View and sort foundation, recipients and grants data in table form.

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Map Fund Data Tools 79

Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2017

The charts in these reports show the frequency of funding by source, such as private foundations, corporate giving programs, and local governments. Some Examples of Who Gets What Grants. In our survey, we ask that participants identify their missions based on the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities classification system.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. As she puts it: Taxonomies exist to classify and to clarify, but they also serve to guide and to goad. … So here’s a reenvisioning of this hierarchy as a taxonomy.

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Taxonomy Museum Social Wikipedia 20

NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries.

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