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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

That’s a trick question—it’s not a matter of dollars, but of cents. For a more “apples to apples” funding comparison, we also examined foundation funding to higher education institutions with similar attributes to HBCUs along five key dimensions: size, geographic region, institution type, locale, and specialization.

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Who is sharing nonprofit demographic data with Candid? 

Candid

Analysis is limited to 501(c)(3) public charities that filed at least one Form 900 or Form 990-EZ between 2017-2021 and had at least $50,000 in annual expenses. iv In comparison, the sharing rate for all other staffing levels is below 60%. Source: Candid, 2023. Source: Candid, 2023.

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How to Effectively Compare Data from Two Different Salesforce Systems

fusionSpan

The issue, however, is that data comparisons are tedious, repetitive, and time-consuming. The good news is that there are code packages specifically designed to handle data comparison. At fusionSpan, our analysts regularly use one of these packages to speed up data comparison, ensuring that the process is kept simple.

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

Candid

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. Still have questions about the Foundation 1000? In this blog, we share a bit about what this data set is, why we use it, and how you can, too. What is the Foundation 1000? private and community foundations.

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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

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All Form 990s had been released as TIFF image files making it both time-consuming and expensive to extract useful data from them. As a result of these efforts, coupled with legal actions, in 2019, the IRS began mandating the electronic filing of all 990s as open data. They are currently in the process of delivering on this goal.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

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2013-2014 – Tweens A decade in, the importance of consistent year-over-year comparisons grew. Specifically, in 2020, we ramped up efforts to identify, verify, and ingest very recent grants from news sources and other websites rather than simply waiting for the IRS to release Form 990 filings. Please reach out at research@candid.org.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. questions) that are similar and shared by many funders. Total Number of Staff Hours.

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