Philanthropy Today

The closure of four Planned Parenthood clinics in Iowa will only feed the surge in demand that an abortion-access fund says it has seen since tight restrictions on the procedure went into effect in 2024. Last year, 625 Iowans received grants from the Iowa Abortion Access Fund and similar organizations to travel out of state for abortions, up from 194 in 2023. Planned Parenthood recently announced that it would close four of its six clinics in Iowa and four clinics in Minnesota. (KCRG)

• Background from the Chronicle: Reproductive Rights

Among the overlooked casualties of the Trump administration’s cancellation of arts and humanities grants are small organizations that preserve the history of their region or tell the stories of marginalized communities. In Los Angeles, groups like Clockshop, which has compiled a “cultural atlas” of peoples who have lived alongside the Los Angeles River; the One Institute, which “houses the largest queer archive in the world”; and the Los Angeles Poverty Department, which chronicles the history of the city’s Skid Row, have been left scrambling to make up for canceled grants. Many smaller groups lack the endowments, visibility, and deep-pocketed donors that larger organizations have been able to tap. (Guardian)

• Background from the Chronicle: Nonprofits and the Trump Agenda

More on Museums and Cultural Archives

• Opinion: How a Misleading Statistic Became a Roadblock for Equity in Museums (Artnet)
• As George Lucas’s ‘Starship’ Museum Nears Landing, He Takes the Controls (New York Times)

Bill Gates and Big Philanthropy

• Hundreds of Billionaires Pledged to Give Away $600 Billion to Charity — But the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Era of Philanthropy May Be Over (Fortune— subscription)
• Bill Gates Shows What the End of Perpetual Philanthropy Looks Like (Vox)
• Inside Bill Gates’ Annual Employee Meeting After His $200 Billion Bombshell: ‘How Do We Get People to Care?’ (Fortune— subscription)
  
  • Background from the Chronicle: Don’t Shut It Down, Bill! Why the Gates Foundation Should Outlive Its Endowment. (Opinion)

More News and Analysis

• What Funders and Fundraisers Can Learn From Philanthropic Networks (Devex)
• The Most Famous Jewish Philanthropist You May Have Never Heard Of, and the Campaign to Amplify His Legacy With a National Park (eJewish Philanthropy)
• At the Nonprofit Salt Lake Tribune, a Turnaround and Now a Big Gamble (Poynter)

Opinion

• The Cost of Taxing Philanthropy (Wall Street Journal— subscription)
• Tax Hikes on West Virginia Foundations Rob Charity to Fund Big Government Spending (West Virginia Daily News)
• Congress Takes Aim at a Pillar of Civil Society (Foreign Policy)
  
  • Background from the Chronicle: Tax Bill Takes Shot at the Largest Foundations and Universities

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