Podcast Episode · Today, Explained · June 24 · 26m

Southern Poverty Law Center was targeted by a weaponized DOJ and commercial DAFs paused grantmaking to them. That's a dangerous choice.

Forbes has a new ranking of the planet’s wealthiest people, sorting them not just by net worth but also by the value of all they’ve given away.

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The tech billionaire and top deputies worked with Epstein for 18 months on a mega-philanthropy idea. We dug into the files to find out more.

In the first 50 years of his life, Charles Feeney went from being the child of a nurse and an insurance...

Craig Newmark's philanthropic strategy is shaped as much by what didn’t work as by what did — leading to an approach that favors scale, networks, and trusted intermediaries over scattershot giving.

Richest 15 U.S. centi-billionaires see wealth surge 33 percent to $3.2 trillion

On this week’s episode of The Big Interview podcast, the philanthropist offers her insights on billionaire donors, kids on phones, and the importance of women’s health care.

Even the billionaires who’ve promised to donate their wealth can’t seem to make a dent in it.

At 15 years old, the Giving Pledge shows we can't rely on the best intentions of billionaires to win a fairer economy.

Only one local bigwig is even close to giving away half their wealth.

Warns of coming supercharged dynastic philanthropy.

15 years on, the Giving Pledge is unfulfilled, unfulfillable, and not our ticket to a fairer, better future.

Where do DAF dollars go—and how quickly do these donor dollars actually arrive at operating nonprofits? The answers, derived from a new study, may be surprising.

A new tax proposal aimed at crippling liberal philanthropic foundations may bulldoze a billionaire giving norm—but women like MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates are expected to step up instead.

Demystifying donor-advised funds and their impacts on charitable giving, fair taxation, and our democracy itself.

Demystifying donor-advised funds and their impacts on charitable giving, fair taxation, and our democracy itself.

Fifty years after the publication of The Power Broker, the legacy of urban planner Robert Moses is ripe for revisiting.

"Philanthropic cakeism" is the new paradigm for donors.

Billionaires and Wall Street exploit our charitable giving laws to dodge taxes and collect fees, hurting real charities in the process.

The end of the year is a time for big fundraising hauls, but it’s also a time for reflection. Here are several troubling trends funders and fundraisers face.

"The financial industry aggressively markets DAFs for uncharitable reasons: advantages as tax avoidance vehicles, especially for complex assets; no payout requirements—and secrecy to donors and grante...

Director Justin Schein challenges the most pernicious anti-taxation myths in his new film, Death and Taxes.

A new study reveals that charitable giving will soon be dominated by Wall Street dark-money funds that enrich the wealthy and never have to give to working charities.