UWCF approved a 5.5 percent year-over-year increase in funding to 55 programs in Polk and Hardee counties and 14 in Highlands County, affecting more than 180,000 people in the tri-county area…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The letter from the co-founder and chair of the Gates Foundation focuses on key areas where AI and related technologies alongside reaffirmed commitments will vastly improve people’s lives around the world, while cautioning that failure to act will have devastating effects in the near future…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The award from the Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation will fund extensive renovations to the Kansas City, Missouri, museum’s 20-year-old glass-pavilioned Bloch Building. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The award from the Norman and Mary Pattiz Foundation to the New Jersey university’s Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center will fund the training of physician-scientists to help accelerate discoveries and new treatments for dementia…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The transfer of land and securities to the Taylor Family Farms Foundation will add to the $173 million contributed in 2023 and enable the Mankato-based philanthropy to better fund its regional community partners in rural southern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The decision to close was made so that CPB would not be vulnerable to political manipulation or misuse in the future and to protect the independence of public media and staff and board members from legal exposure to bad-faith actors…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The gift from the estate of Neil Mellen will fund renovations to the Bridgeport, Connecticut, hospital’s oncology unit, including new treatment spaces, enhanced patient comfort features, and advanced technology to support cancer care…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Grants of $50 million each were awarded to Arkansas Children’s in Little Rock, and Wellstar Children’s Hospital of Georgia in Augusta, making them the newest members of the Golisano Children’s Alliance…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The grants from the local news funding collaborative’s national Pooled Fund are seeded by investments from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation….  Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The gift from Stephen B. Ashley will combine the department of global development and the department of natural resources and the environment at the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The grant from the Lilly Endowment—the largest foundation grant in Notre Dame history—will help the Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good advance development of a shared, faith-based ethical framework that individuals can draw on to discern appropriate uses of AI…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Awarded through the USM Foundation, the gift from Paul H. “Bud” Holmes will support the $16.6 million renovation of the building that will house the university’s School of Criminal Justice, Forensic Science and Security…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

The mega-wealthy continue to exert outsized influence on giving in the United States and around the world…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

From education to community and nonprofit development, investments into initiatives in the Global South filled a range of areas….  Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Major funders and collaboratives doubled down on their investments in support of women’s health in 2025…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Giving to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as well as Tribal- and Hispanic-Serving colleges advanced markedly this year with over $1 billion in related awards from MacKenzie Scott alone…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

In 2025, the continued expansion of the Lilly Endowment’s grantmaking has helped maintain a solid foundation of giving to religious organizations around the world, while other individual and institutional funders have also made it a significant focus of their giving…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

This year saw a range of super-sized long-term awards for hospitals and health systems as well as targeted funding to expand science-to-treatment pipelines, address health equity gaps in data and research, and leverage AI technologies to accelerate medical breakthroughs…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Higher education institutions spent much of the year on the defensive following changes in federal funding and public policy put billions of dollars in limbo, if not eliminating the payments altogether…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>

Funding for climate change and environmental resilience saw big gains in 2025, although philanthropic decisions were heavily influenced by the United States government’s decision to pull funding and participation from several global organizations, and the United Nations-led COP 30 climate change conference in Belém, Brazil…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>