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

Candid

foundations in a given year (see chart below). Why we use the Foundation 1000 sets for trends analysis As illustrated in the chart above, the Foundation 1000s’ grantmaking is much more stable over time compared to the broader grant data set. private and community foundations. private and community foundations. Pledges are excluded.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

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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