Family Foundations

This report provides the most comprehensive measurement to date of the size and scope of the U.S. family foundation community—the fastest growing segment of foundation philanthropy. It identifies the number of family foundations and their distribution by region and state, size, geographic focus, and decade of establishment; and includes analysis of staffing and public reporting by these funders.

Family Foundations also examines trends in giving by a sample of larger family foundations between 1993 and 1998 and compares these patterns with independent foundations overall. Prepared in cooperation with the National Center for Family Philanthropy.

The Foundation Center, August 2000, 55 pp.

Available online fromThe Foundation Center.