Report: Gilded Giving 2022
Our nation’s charitable system is in danger of becoming a taxpayer-subsidized platform of private power for the ultra-wealthy.
Our nation’s charitable system is in danger of becoming a taxpayer-subsidized platform of private power for the ultra-wealthy.
Giving USA 2022 is the gold-standard report on charitable giving in the United States. But this year’s story glosses over two important pieces of long-term context: what has happened to the giving capacity of typical Americans, and where much of the charitable giving has actually gone.
Concerns about Warehousing Charity Dollars and Tax Subsidies for Wealthy Donors and Perpetual Foundations Transcend Partisan Divide
Concerns about warehousing charity dollars and tax subsidies for wealthy donors and perpetual foundations transcend partisan divide.
Watch this stunning time lapse illustration of the rise of donor-advised funds (DAFs) as the largest recipients of charitable gifts.
A new research database reveals that many donor-advised fund donations take years to make it to the coffers of operating nonprofits.
Charitable giving has become a taxpayer-subsidized extension of private power and influence for the wealthiest people in the country. It’s time to fix that.
DAFs have been used to transform philanthropy into a taxpayer-subsidized extension of private power and influence for the wealthy.
Our wealthiest give away only a fraction of what they could easily afford to give.
But it is not just Russian oligarchs that have been increasingly abusing charity for financial or political gain; U.S. oligarchs do it too.
How the concentration of wealth is warping the giving sector, from our Charity Reform Initiative.
Billionaire donations mostly ignore global pandemic, ecological crisis, spiraling wage and wealth inequality, and racial inequity.
Donor-advised funds are set up to provide more benefit to their wealthy donors than to public charities. We can fix that.
New revelations about the Nike founder’s tax-dodging schemes raise questions about his charitable giving.
Donor-advised funds are making misleading claims in response to criticism that they are warehousing wealth instead of boosting charitable giving.