Michael Kavate

The H&H Evergreen Foundation is one of the nation’s largest foundations, but it has barely any presence online or off, and it's hard to know where its grants go. Here’s what we do know.

Svetlana Lukienko/shutterstock When billionaire Steven M. Rales put $1.5 billion worth of his company’s shares into his foundation in 2021, it seemed like a significant boon for the sector.

The longtime activist and philanthropic change agent will take the helm at the influential Pritzker-family-backed social justice grantmaker Libra Foundation later this year, following the departure of former President Crystal Hayling.

The Agroecology Fund awarded just over $10 million in its first decade. Now, with a prescient mission that appeals to many big climate donors, the regrantor’s getting new commitments at $9 million and $10 million a pop.

As heat records topple, funders have committed hundreds of millions for methane and green industrial policies, and the top climate foundation has a new strategy. Here’s what’s going on.

Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna now control a grantmaker nearly as big as the Rockefeller Foundation, and have promised a lot more. Here’s what Good Ventures’ growth tells us about where the sector’s headed.

From the Sunshine Funders to the Black Box Billionaires, Michael Kavate gives us a taxonomy of megadonor funding transparency, focusing on that hallmark of open-book giving: the public-facing grants database.

The tech billionaire’s Koum Family Foundation is likely just one part of a giving operation that also includes the low-profile, $1.5 billion K18n Foundation.

A historic gift from the Lilly Endowment follows a year of multi-million-dollar awards for the National Park Foundation, and underlines the system’s growing reliance on philanthropy amid static federal spending.

An Institute for Policy Studies analysis found that donors gave $5.8 billion to groups trafficking in climate disinformation from 2020 to 2022. A quarter of that sum comes from donor-advised funds and foundations.