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Mega-Giving to Charities and Non-Profits
Groeneman Research & Consulting will be managing the data compilation and annual reporting in the ongoing “Mega-Gifts” project conducted by the IJCR (www.jewishresearch.org). Mega-Gifts represents an effort to catalogue and analyze all gifts and grants of $1 million or more to 501(c)(3) organizations from all sources - individuals, bequests, independent and community foundations, corporations and corporate foundations, and commercial donor-advised funds. The main objectives of this research are to document patterns of giving by recipient category (education, health/medical, religion, human services, arts, etc.), examine trends over time in large contributions, document and compare patterns of Jewish and other mega-giving, and in general, to enrich scholarship in the field of philanthropy. Mega-Gifts is not a survey project; instead, it entails a comprehensive and systematic search of general and specialized periodicals, web sites, and existing lists and archives to identify as many $1M+ gifts/grants that can be found, which provide the database for the analysis.