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How Are Foundations Doing? In many ways, our story is very straightforward. We wanted to know how foundations’ investments were performing. Our background in advising nonprofit organizations on their investments motivated us to want to take a closer look at foundation performance. Specifically, we wanted to know which foundations were doing well from an … [Read more...] about Our Story
About Private Foundations
A Lot of Foundations, A Lot of Assets The first thing you should know about foundations is that there are a lot of them – over 100,000 in the United States (there are a handful of foundations outside the U.S., but as the distinguishing characteristic is the exemption from US taxes, there isn’t much reason to file U.S. forms). Our work focuses on those foundations with over $1 … [Read more...] about About Private Foundations