Fundraising Trends & Major Gifts

August 30, 2022

After two years of disruptions with the global health crisis and the current impending recession, it is of critical importance to understand the landscape of fundraising efforts. Our latest Arts Leader Survey asked arts leaders to benchmark themselves on expectations for future fundraising trends, giving challenges organizations are preparing for, and patterns in how individual donors are moving up to larger gifts. Highlights from the asurvey include:

• When looking at contributed income sources in the most recent fiscal year, organizations received the highest value of gifts from individual donors, then foundation, government, and finally corporate.

• However, when looking at this current fiscal year, about one-fifth of arts organizations expect corporate donations to increase.

• 80 percent of arts leaders are wary about the recession's impact on fundraising, although organization's still expect fundraising dollars to increase this year.

• A quarter of arts organizations experienced a donor jumping to a significantly higher gift in under a year.

See the full data at the end of this page or click below to download a pdf version.