Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving Reports 12.1 Percent Increase in Overall Giving

Craver believes that since smaller organizations tend to be ‘local’ in nature and therefore delivering on meeting community needs like hunger, housing, and other human services, that donors focus more on them in tough times.

Thus, giving to small organization increases and leads this group out of the recession. On the contrary, he continues in the report that as a general rule, large organizations have a far broader and deeper range of income sources, and that explains why giving to this group declined slower and rebound is also happening a bit slower than small organizations, although they lead the rolling 3-month YOY revenue change in April.