The Girls’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) on the Indiana College Lilly Household College of Philanthropy launched its sixth annual Girls & Ladies Index (WGI), a systematically generated, complete index that measures charitable giving to organizations devoted to ladies and women within the U.S., together with the quantity of philanthropic help they obtain from people, foundations, and companies. The 2024 WGI provides finalized IRS information from 2021(the final yr for which monetary information is out there) throughout 54,588 organizations—offering an evaluation on the last decade 2012 to 2021 that highlights each gaps and progress in philanthropic help for ladies and women.
For the primary time, ladies’s and women’ organizations surpassed $10 billion in giving as they obtained $10.2 billion in philanthropic help in 2021. This historic milestone is about towards the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic’s ongoing disproportionate impression on ladies, notably ladies of colour and people in low-wage jobs, and ongoing discussions concerning the systemic limitations to gender fairness. Whereas consciousness of gender-focused points corresponding to pay fairness and reproductive rights has grown, general charitable giving that helps ladies and women stays comparatively small at 1.9% of complete giving. This statistic highlights the continued want for better philanthropic help throughout the complete spectrum of causes that enhance the lives of ladies and women.
The last decade-long dataset permits for an examination of long-term traits, providing a broader context for understanding how giving to ladies’s and women’ organizations has advanced. The info reveals that whereas ladies’s and women’ organizations are seeing progress in charitable {dollars} raised, they’re typically maintaining tempo with or nonetheless falling behind different causes corresponding to human providers and schooling. There isn’t a single measure tracked by the report (corresponding to philanthropic help, belongings, revenues, bills) through which WGI organizations outpaced progress for non-WGI organizations over the past decade.
Extending a constant development over time, reproductive well being and household planning organizations continued to obtain the best quantity of philanthropic help for ladies’s and women’ organizations in 2021, at $1.8 billion. This was adopted by ladies’s and women’ human providers organizations and household and gender-based violence organizations, every receiving $1.6 billion in 2021. Organizations serving ladies’s and women’ civil rights and advocacy noticed the most important progress in philanthropic help at 60.9% from 2020 to 2021. Along with rising essentially the most from 2020 to 2021, this group of organizations greater than doubled the quantity of philanthropic help they obtained over the last decade.
“It’s really encouraging to see ladies’s and women’ organizations surpass the $10 billion mark. But, these teams nonetheless obtain lower than 2% of general philanthropic funding—a statistic that has not modified since we started monitoring information from 2012,” mentioned Jacqueline Ackerman, interim director of the Girls’s Philanthropy Institute on the Indiana College Lilly Household College of Philanthropy. “We should bolster philanthropic help for the big selection of organizations serving ladies and women, from these addressing providers like healthcare and human rights, to these targeted on schooling and financial empowerment, to advance significant, enduring progress.”
Key findings from the 2024 WGI embody:
- Surpassing the $10 billion mark for the primary time, ladies’s and women’ organizations obtained $10.2 billion in philanthropic help in 2021, representing 1.9% of general charitable giving.
- Reproductive well being and household planning organizations obtained the best quantity of philanthropic help for ladies’s and women’ organizations in 2021, a constant development over time. WGI organizations serving ladies’s and women’ civil rights and advocacy noticed the most important progress (60.9%) from 2020 to 2021.
- Assist for ladies’s and women’ organizations from authorities grants elevated 26.5% from 2020 to 2021, which was greater than the 14.8% progress in authorities grants to non-WGI organizations. Nonetheless, over the last decade 2012-2021, authorities grants to WGI organizations and to non-WGI organizations grew at almost the identical general charge.
“The Girls & Ladies Index is a robust useful resource that allows donors, fundraisers and people dedicated to ladies’s and women’ causes to know and handle the necessity for elevated and lasting philanthropic help for ladies and women,” mentioned Una Osili, Ph.D., affiliate dean for analysis and worldwide packages on the Lilly Household College of Philanthropy.
The WGI was created in 2019 with help from the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis and is a cornerstone undertaking of the Equitable Giving Lab (EGL), an initiative of the varsity funded by Google.org to raised perceive charitable giving to various communities and under-resourced teams. Forthcoming analysis by the varsity for the Equitable Giving Lab will look at funding for BIPOC communities, in addition to intersectional teams like LGBTQ+ ladies and women, and girls and women of colour.
The 2024 Girls & Ladies Index analysis temporary is out there right here.
Supply: Indiana College Lilly Household College of Philanthropy
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