Joseph and Matthew Payton
Philanthropic Studies Library

Sources of Statistics

National Center for Charitable Statistics (Urban Institution)

Organization level data, state and national level profiles sorted by multiple parameters

Independent Sector

Giving and Volunteering in the United States (Executive summary)

New Nonprofit Almanac and Desk Reference (Executive summary)

Foundation Center

Top funders

Funding trends

FC stats

Giving Institute/Giving USA Foundation

Giving USA (Summary information for most recent year is available at the organization's site; retrospective issues from 1955 through 1998 are available in PRO: Philanthropy Resources Online.

Council for Aid to Education

Voluntary Support of Education Data Miner—data on giving to education by school status and classification; multiple sorting parameters and years available; requires password

John Price Jones Yearbook of Philanthropy (1920-1948)

Historical data on individual gifts, bequests, corporate philanthropy, employee giving, foundations, community chests, uses of gifts.