SOURCE, the Searchable Open University Records of Charitable Expenditures, is a new portal that provides data on the grants ...

Private foundations are victims of misconceptions and stereotyping, even within the philanthropic community. It’s true. I find it ironic that philanthropists—many of whom dedicate vast resources in ...

Imagine a poet who receives a call out of the blue informing him that he has been selected as a MacArthur Fellow because of his track record of exceptional creativity and will receive a $625,000 ...

One of the most effective ways clients can make a positive impact on the world is through charitable giving. While giving can take many forms, private foundations have taken on a key role, with ...

Most people are familiar with the charitable activities of private foundations bearing names of the giants of U.S. business—the Rockefeller, MacArthur and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations, to name ...

Raffa-Marcum’s Nonprofit & Social Sector Group, a service of Marcum LLP, recommends 20 questions that can help guide private foundations in remaining compliant with IRS regulations and avoiding ...

Foundation Source, a provider of tech solutions and administrative management support for private foundations, has acquired a firm that will expand its technological capabilities, Foundation Source ...

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, signed into law on Feb. 9, has a provision that may be a boon to people who want to use stock in their family businesses to fund private foundations. Processing ...

The J. Paul Getty Trust is the single largest private operating foundation in the U.S. today, with over $12 Billion in assets. Many times, an artist or collector wishes to preserve their collection by ...

A strong stock market performance in 2021 fueled a rise in giving by private foundations last year, but the rockier year that followed could lead to fewer gifts in the future, according to an annual ...

Scores of private charitable foundations, set up by some of the nation's wealthiest people, received money from the federal government's Paycheck Protection Program, which was created last spring to ...

The fundamental problem with how President Donald Trump seems to have operated the Donald J. Trump Foundation is that he used it as just another corporate entity — one endowed with the ability to ...