Giving to ladies’s and women’ group reached $7.1 billion in 2017, based on the Ladies’s Philanthropy Institute.
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Charitable giving to ladies’s and women’ organizations within the U.S. reached $7.1 billion in 2017, rising 36.4% over the previous 5 years and on par with different charitable organizations, based on a report from the Ladies’s Philanthropy Institute Tuesday.
There are roughly 47,000 organizations within the U.S. devoted to ladies and women, making up 3.4% of all charitable organizations. The quantity of donations they’ve acquired accounted for 1.6% of general charitable giving, based on Ladies’s Philanthropy Institute’s second annual report, Ladies & Ladies Index.
“Whereas ladies’s and women’ organizations noticed regular progress in philanthropic assist from 2012 to 2017, contributions to those organizations proceed to comprise a comparatively small share of general charitable giving,”
Debra Mesch,
lead writer of the report and professor of philanthropic research on the Indiana College Lilly Household Faculty of Philanthropy, mentioned in a press release.
The report relies on the newest finalized information from the Inner Income Service and different sources, and funded by a grant from the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis. In 2019, Gates pledged $1 billion over 10 years to advertise gender equality within the U.S.
Explicit kinds of organizations—equivalent to these centered on reproductive well being and household and gender-based violence—noticed particularly sturdy progress from 2012 to 2017. Philanthropic assist for reproductive rights organizations elevated 85.2% from 2012 to 2017, and 33.7% in 2017 alone, based on the report.
Moreover, authorities grants to ladies’s and women’ organizations elevated 34.4% from 2012 to 2017, outpaced different charitable organizations, which noticed an 14.6% improve in authorities grants, based on the report.
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