Foundation Yearbook

Facts and Figures on Private and Community Foundations

Steven Lawrence, Algernon Austin, and Reina Mukai

2007, 70 pages. The Foundation Center, 79 5th Ave, NY, NY, 10003, (800) 424-9836, www.foundationcenter.org

This report, published annually by the Foundation Center, documents the giving of more than 71,000 active foundations in 2005. Among the key findings are that giving by grantmaking foundations increased 14.3 percent in 2005 to $36.4 billion, assets of all active U.S. foundations were up 7.8 percent to $550.6 billion in 2005, and that giving by grantmaking operating foundations surpassed community foundations for the first time in 2005.