Nonprofits and funders alike have long called on foundations to be more flexible and responsive, to provide more unrestricted funding, to reduce what they ask of grantees, and to build more trusting relationships. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, these calls for change only intensified.

This study is the final in a series of three reports from Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) examining the extent to which staffed foundations have improved their practices in response to calls for change to meet the unprecedented challenges of 2020.