If you’ve followed this blog for very long, you know that we’re big fans of the DAF Research Collaborative (DRC), an academic team researching donor advised funds and sponsors. The Collaborative has strong relationships with the DAF sponsor community, and they are granted in-depth access to information that is generally unavailable. Fortunately, they aggregate it, […]
Author: Helen Brown
Highlights from the 2024 NPT Donor Advised Fund Report
Each year in the fall since 2007, the National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) has published its annual Donor Advised Fund Giving Report. The always-anticipated (and always fascinating) report tracks a subset of DAF sponsors in the United States to learn more about giving from DAFs and the trends that are important to follow with this increasingly […]
Dawning of a new Day – DAF Day 2024
Whether you love it or just thinking about it exhausts you, it’s undeniable that Giving Tuesday has been a powerful force of philanthropic giving since it was launched by Henry Timms and others at the 92nd Street Y in 2012. That first year, over $10 million was given through Blackbaud alone. A mere eleven years […]
Your donor database has people with DAFs in it already
Chances are good that you’ve read the stats already and you know all this, but just in case this topic is new to you: And you know this, too: people are giving money to DAFs rather than directly to nonprofits. And for those of us in the nonprofit sector, that’s frustrating. Contributions to DAFs in […]
Encouraging takeaways from the NPT 2023 Donor-Advised Fund Report
Every year the National Philanthropic Trust (NPT), a DAF sponsor and resource of useful industry-focused white papers and information publishes its Donor-Advised Fund Report. NPT surveys a cohort of its peers (this year, 1,151 of them) as well as gathering external information about the DAF ecosystem for this annual report. There are a myriad of […]
Have you seen the 2023 FreeWill Donor-Advised Fund Report?
FreeWill just released a free (with email signup) new survey report about DAFs that highlights the results of a survey they did in January and February of this year of “nearly 500” nonprofit fundraising professionals from a range of nonprofit sizes and types. FreeWill asked about grants received from donor advised funds, outreach and marketing […]
