Explore Our Work and Resources
We create and share datasets and offer access to secure data environments for further analysis and research.
We curate resource libraries to make knowledge on generosity easily accessible.
We facilitate research collaborations and convene communities to advance knowledge on generosity and civil society.
We analyze generosity and resource mobilization and publish our findings to inform practice.
What We’re Learning
Donor count fell an estimated 0.8% YoY, a marked improvement from the 2.3% decline ayear earlier — a plateau, not yet a turnaround. This points to stabilization rather thanconfirmed recovery.and may partly reflect growing sector investment in mid-level donor stewardship among the segments driving the improvement.
Donors on monthly recurring schedules generate 2.75 times more annual value than non-recurring donors, and recurring giving is steadily growing across the sector. Yet half of nonprofits still aren’t acquiring a single new recurring donor each year.
Our GivingPulse data shows that 65% of Americans gave in some form in 2025, which is slightly up from the year before, despite economic turbulence. Monetary giving, volunteering, and item donation all ticked upward — a sign that generosity held its ground in a difficult year.
The State of Generosity in 2024-2025:
The State of Generosity report is our most comprehensive and global look at generosity beyond formal aid and institutional philanthropy. It tells less a story of unexpected resilience than of previously under-measured resilience.
The dismantling of USAID, and the ripple effects throughout the global giving ecosystem, highlighted something that was always true: Formal institutions are only one part of civil society. Beneath them exists a far broader ecosystem of community care that has always sustained people, even when it has remained largely invisible.
Explore Our Work by Topic
Strengthening Resource Mobilization
Through studies of fundraising data and donor trends, our work aims to enhance fundraising and supporter engagement by identifying successful practices, including insights from emerging technologies.
Capturing Dimensions of Generosity
By examining the generosity ecosystem beyond monetary donations, our research explores the full spectrum of generosity to understand its drivers, influencers, and classifications.
Understanding the GivingTuesday Model
We analyze GivingTuesday’s global leadership network to provide insights on distributed movements and support peer-learning communities and proximate leadership practices.
