foundation capacity: preliminary findings from fccat data

December 6, 2016

Foundation Capacity: Preliminary Findings from FCCAT Data

Melinda Fine, Ed.D. Jared Raynor Deepti Sood

Director of Philanthropy & Strategic Partnerships

Director of Evaluation Senior Consultant

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Agenda

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o Background & Context

o Findings from the FCCAT aggregate sample

o Discussion

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Why Foundation Capacity?

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Background & Context

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FCCAT History

FCCAT Pilot

WE ARE HERE

2007 2015 2016

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• Focus on learning

• Self-assessment

Tool Background

• Measures behaviors, not attitudes

• Five core capacities (and 43 sub-capacities)

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2016 Administration

58participating foundations 54

in aggregate sample

3+staff per foundation

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Five Core Capacities

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Sub-capacities• Advocacy• Board

championship• Board-staff

relationship• Commitment

to DEI• External

leadership• Foundation

vision• Internal

decision-making

• Financial mission management• Grant portfolio management• Grantee relationship management• Grantmaking processes• Risk approach• Staff communication• Staff development• Staff performance management

• Data-informed approach• Environmental learning• Evaluation• Foundation networks• Innovation and

experimentation• Networking grantees• Strategy development

• Cultural competency• Facilities• Technology

• Cohesion• Demonstrating

accountability• Demonstrating clear

and lived values• Demonstrating

transparency• Empowerment• Encouraging

collaboration• Supporting staff

sustainability• Valuing different

perspectives• Valuing learning

• Skills (advocacy, evaluation, financial management, fundraising, grantmaking, knowledge management, legal, technology, strategic communications)

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Who took the FCCAT?

Private foundations

Community foundations

Family foundations

Public foundations

Operating foundations

Corporate foundations

34%

24%

18%

16%

6%

2%

Foundation Type

Locally

Regionally

Nationally

Internationally

44%

32%

16%

8%

Foundation Grantmaking Scope

More than $400M

Between $100-$4000M

Between $50-100M

Between $10-50M

14%

30%

18%

14%

Total Asset Size

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What are FCCAT participants engaged in?

Program grants

Capacity building grants

General operating support grants

Multi-year grants

Capital project support grants

Research grants

83%

74%

71%

59%

40%

26%

What sort of grants do you provide?

Support grantee convening & networking

Support capacity building

Provide direct grants

Run operating programs

79%

76%

74%

36%

What sort of activities do you use your funding for?

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Findings

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• Foundations rate themselves relatively similarly regardless of:oAsset size

oAmount of annual giving

oGeographic scope

o Foundation type

High-level Takeaway 1

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• Foundations rate their capacity across the five core concepts are “strong” or “satisfactory”

• FCCAT scores are categorized as follows:

High-level Takeaway 2

Score Category

230 and greater Strong

190 – 229 Satisfactory

Less than 190 Challenging

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POLL: Which core capacity was highest?

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Overall Capacity Scores

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What’s Highest Overall?

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What’s Lowest Overall?

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Leadership Capacity

Advocacy Board Championship

Board-staff Relationship

Commitment to DEI

External Leadership

Foundation Vision

Internal Decision-making

Strong 15 24 34 6 44 40 32

Satisfactory 14 22 15 16 8 12 20

Challenging 25 8 5 32 2 2 2

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Adaptive Capacity

Data-

informed approach

Environmental learning Evaluation Foundation

networksInnovation &

experi-mentation

Networking grantees

Strategy Development

Strong 12 29 3 46 26 43 19

Satisfactory 20 24 20 7 26 10 24

Challenging 22 1 31 1 2 1 11

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Management Capacity

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Management Capacity

Risk approach Staff communication Staff development

Staff performance management

Strong 21 31 30 29

Satisfactory 26 21 23 21

Challenging 7 2 1 4

Financial mission

managementGrant portfolio management

Grantee relationship management

Grantmaking processes

Strong 29 47 47 34

Satisfactory 22 6 7 19

Challenging 3 1 0 1

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Technical Capacity

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Technical Capacity

Advocacy skills

Cultural competency Evaluation skills Facilities

Financial management

skillsFundraising

skills

Strong 25 38 22 35 48 14

Satisfactory 19 15 19 17 6 7

Challenging 10 1 13 2 0 11

Grantmaking skills

Knowledge management

skillsLegal skills

Strategic communication

skillsTechnology Technology

skills

Strong 37 25 34 32 22 27

Satisfactory 16 27 10 16 22 17

Challenging 1 2 10 6 10 10

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Organizational Culture

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Culture

Cohesion Demonstrating accountability

Demonstrating clear and lived

valuesDemonstrating transparency Empowerment

Strong 2 29 34 11 30

Satisfactory 49 23 15 26 22

Challenging 3 2 5 17 2

Encouraging collaboration

Supporting staff sustainability

Valuing different perspectives Valuing learning

Strong 13 29 6 24

Satisfactory 41 17 42 25

Challenging 0 8 6 5

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Discussion & Questions

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• Clarifications?

• Surprises or confirmed expectations?

• Areas you’d like to probe further?

• Suggestions for further research?

• Insights from your foundation results findings that you’d like to share?

Discussion

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• Learning togethero Available for interpretation dialogues

o Please share insights, questions, suggestions

• Building the data seto Consider expanding data sample within your foundation

o Space available for interested foundations

• Sharing knowledgeo Upcoming reports and articles

o Webinars, funder conference presentations

• Digging deepero Continued investigation of data (DEI, collaboration, relation between

foundations and nonprofits)

o Invite your suggestions

Next Steps for FCCAT

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THANK YOU

Jared Raynor

Director of Evaluation

jraynor@tccgrp.com

Deepti Sood

Senior Consultant

dsood@tccgrp.com

Melinda Fine, Ed.D.

Director of Philanthropy & Strategic Partnerships

mfine@tccgrp.com

www.tccccat.com/foundationCCAT

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Appendices

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Core Capacity Model External Environment

Resources

OrganizationPolitical and

Regulatory Forces

Social and Demographic Forces

Economic ForcesTechnological Forces

Adaptive Capacitythe ability of a nonprofit organization to

monitor, assess and respond to internal and external changes

OrganizationalCulture

Hist

oryStructure Rituals

Beliefs

Lang

uage

Values

Technical Capacitythe ability of a nonprofit organization to implement all of the key organizational and programmatic functions

Key Resourcesthe one or more critically needed resourcesthat most directly support programs and services

Finances/Funding

Program Design andModel

Time Technology

Facilities Human Resources

Management Capacitythe ability of a nonprofit

organization to ensure the effective and efficient use of

organizational resources

Leadership Capacitythe ability of all organizational

leaders to create and sustain the vision, inspire, model, prioritize,

make decisions, provide direction and innovate, all in an effort to

achieve the organizational mission