Every month, Foundation Advocate chooses one topic relating to foundation investment performance to highlight. This month we took a look at the relationship between asset size and performance. As you can see from the chart above and the annualized performance data, bigger foundations out-performed smaller ones on a consistent basis by around 2%. We chose […]
Main Content
July 2019 Newsletter
State Focus: Pennsylvania
Bird’s Eye View Every month, FoundationAdvocate (“FA”) highlights a state by providing a brief overview of its foundations in terms of performance, fees, and asset allocation. Data on Pennsylvania foundations and other states can also be found at Top Ten. The opinions expressed are FA’s. Pennsylvania foundations were among the best performing in the […]
Giving Has Been Growing
Charitable Disbursements up 40% in Past 5 Years As the chart below shows, private foundations have increased their annual philanthropic support by nearly 40%, from $54 billion to $73 billion, an increase of $19 billion per year. One thing that may surprise readers is the level of incoming contributions to foundations. Nearly $60 billion came […]