America’s biggest donors gave $22.4 billion in 2025. This year’s report highlights some of the country’s most interesting and prolific philanthropists. Sign up for the latest news, trends, and opinion ...

Keep up with everything happening in The Commons by signing up for our monthly newsletter. The nonprofit world has many reasons to sound urgent right now. Federal funding has become unreliable.

Though we don’t all use the same language for it, every foundation has some purpose (or theory of change) for its work. At the most basic, purpose is whatever effect you are trying to have. A grant ...

A quiet Treasury proposal threatens the infrastructure that helps thousands of fledgling nonprofits get off the ground.

Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, made headlines in 2025 when they pledged $2 billion to the Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute to help transform the treatment ...

Earlier this year, a study on higher-education fundraising revealed that 89 percent of the dollars raised came from just 2 percent of donors. Researchers and university fundraisers agree this mix of ...

In May, three big donors stepped up to support health care, public health, and research with large gifts to hospitals in Jerusalem, Missouri, California, and elsewhere. And the sums were big — gifts ...

With charitable assets valued at roughly $130 billion, the OpenAI Foundation is now the largest nonprofit organization in the United States. Its rise has come with an unusually high-stakes set of ...

Keep up with everything happening in The Commons by signing up for our monthly newsletter. The leaders of the progressive MacArthur Foundation and DonorsTrust, a donor-advised fund that caters to ...

I bet sometime during your last board retreat someone raised the next-generation donor problem: Young donors are skeptical about philanthropy and want to be part of the solution beyond writing a check ...

Jim Canales, who has led Boston’s Barr Foundation for 11 years, will step down at the end of 2025, to serve as the grant maker’s board chair and as managing director of Pilot House, the private family ...

Nonprofit fraud is in the news a lot these days. Federal investigators in Minnesota prosecuted one of the largest alleged COVID-19 pandemic fraud schemes, in which several nonprofits and individuals ...