Fund Raising 2010: How Big Charities Are Faring in the First Quarter

	Donations raised January 1-March 31, 2010	Donations in first quarter of 2009	Percent change
Adventist Development and Relief Agency International	15,225,933	7,808,531	95.0
Brown University	23,123,974	22,490,000	2.8
California Community Foundation	7,987,074	13,340,053	-40.1
California Institute of Technology	15,582,993	7,674,135	103.1
Campus Crusade for Christ International	101,541,000	96,459,000	5.3
Carnegie Mellon University	17,304,066	5,600,941	208.9
Catholic Charities USA	1,122,031	1,167,425	-3.9
Catholic Relief Services	151,107,647	21,860,756	591.2
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	10,941,237	6,254,372	74.9
ChildFund International	46,632,230	45,246,480	3.1
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation	14,779,880	8,139,292	81.6
Children's Hospital Foundation and Guild Association (Seattle)	5,539,791	8,176,694	-32.2
Children's Hunger Fund	1,463,998	893,867	63.8
Children's Memorial Hospital	7,595,480	7,636,035	-.5
Christian Foundation for Children and Aging	26,910,662	26,420,376	1.9
Cleveland Clinic Foundation	26,000,000	20,000,000	30.0
William J. Clinton Foundation	74,100,000	22,366,000	231.3
College Success Foundation	1,151,565	921,337	25.0
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta	3,500,000	4,000,000	-12.5
Cooperative Housing Foundation International	8,162,988	6,490,982	25.8
Crista Ministries	6,648,420	5,612,913	18.4
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation	20,592,000	20,195,000	2.0
Direct Relief International	7,517,409	1,480,900	407.6
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund	270,000,000	129,000,000	109.3
George Washington University	14,061,483	11,203,404	25.5
Global Impact	27,744,068	26,033,150	6.6
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association	15,487,641	15,256,846	1.5
Greater Chicago Food Depository	3,950,769	4,038,384	-2.2
Greater Houston Community Foundation	13,448,661	6,742,220	99.5
Heart to Heart International	2,262,000	344,000	557.6
Help the Children	248,500	504,593	-50.8
Heritage Foundation	19,544,354	11,086,378	76.3
Interchurch Medical Assistance	810,653	887,834	-8.7
Jewish Federation/Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago	8,156,092	9,636,995	-15.4
Kids in Distressed Situations	405,447	270,733	49.8
Lehigh University	5,912,404	4,757,852	24.3
MAP International	3,428,441	2,478,510	38.3
March of Dimes Foundation	40,877,000	41,809,000	-2.2
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation	1,401,091	1,224,787	14.4
Mercy Corps	8,904,467	3,801,746	134.2
Metropolitan Museum of Art	26,506,810	30,407,675	-12.8
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Impact Funding Trust	25,758,551	8,302,409	210.3
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	46,172,756	42,256,325	9.3
Nature Conservancy	101,878,024	75,170,114	35.5
New York Public Library	36,121,000	32,446,000	11.3
North Carolina State University	17,722,363	22,793,622	-22.2
Ohio State University	41,395,690	49,145,537	-15.8
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum	965,261	859,888	12.3
Oregon State University	6,036,077	8,368,652	-27.9
Philadelphia Museum of Art	17,620,677	11,820,758	49.1
Population Services International	925,719	6,166,571	-85.0
Purdue University	16,169,205	25,499,481	-36.6
Saint Paul Foundation	4,419,473	3,699,126	19.5
Save the Children	99,226,000	76,116,000	30.4
Seattle Foundation	10,582,509	5,922,178	78.7
Silicon Valley Community Foundation	26,995,797	9,401,042	187.2
Texas Children's Hospital	14,136,192	7,637,315	85.1
United States Fund for Unicef	74,020,343	13,825,740	435.4
University of California at Berkeley	60,361,834	63,684,883	-5.2
University of California at Santa Barbara	11,934,774	11,298,710	5.6
University of Georgia	25,756,277	27,272,618	-5.6
University of Notre Dame	34,608,863	30,809,466	12.3
University of Oklahoma	27,252,444	28,018,932	-2.7
University of Oregon	33,646,379	13,854,122	142.9
University of Tennessee System	31,130,013	25,162,586	23.7
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	19,581,722	14,474,196	35.3
University of Utah	22,272,611	36,696,111	-39.3
University of Washington	211,510,606	231,714,331	-8.7
Virginia Commonwealth University	9,140,737	7,521,826	21.5
Wake Forest University	9,302,565	8,149,564	14.1
WGBH Educational Foundation	26,566,526	50,622,333	-47.5
World Vision	150,816,545	95,669,936	57.6
Young Life	33,213,928	33,359,633	-0.4

About these data:

These data are from The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s survey of how giving to big nonprofit groups fared from January 1 to March 31, 2010. The organizations that were asked to provide figures were drawn from The Chronicle of Philanthropy's Philanthropy 400 ranking of the nation’s most successful fund-raising organizations.

The Chronicle asked organizations to tally donations made in cash, check, credit-card payments, as well as stock. In addition, they were asked to add payments made on pledges. Organizations were told not to include donations of products or services and amounts that have been pledged but not yet paid.

The numbers the organizations provided are unaudited estimates, and are subject to change.

Readers are urged to compare these figures with a degree of caution, because quarterly donations often rise or fall for reasons that have nothing to do with the popularity of the cause or the skill of the fund-raising effort. Those reasons can include one-time large gifts and grants and irregular payments on pledges. And for many organizations, particularly for those that provide overseas relief, the Haiti and Chile earthquakes led to a spike in fund raising during 2010’s first quarter.

Organizations that alerted The Chronicle to specific reasons for their large apparent swings from 2008 to 2009 include:

• Help the Children, which received a $150,000 grant in early March 2009. Excluding that sum, the decrease of 50.8 percent shown would have been a decline of 29.9 percent.

• Population Services International, which received in 2009 a one-time gift of $257,000, plus $5,600,000 in grants. In 2010 the organization received grants for $577,882. Excluding these sums from the 2010 count would mean the drop of 85 percent shown would have been an increase of 12.4 percent.

• Texas Children's Hospital, whose figures include a timing difference in pledge payments of $5,000,000: one payment was received at the end of the last quarter of 2008, instead of the expected first quarter of 2009, and the other was received the first quarter of 2010. Excluding the payment from the 2010 first quarter, the 85.1-percent increase shown would have been 19.6 percent.