High-Impact Philanthropy: How Philanthropy Can Catalyze Change at Scale

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The Bridgespan Group’s ongoing high-impact philanthropy research highlights practices and approaches to achieve lasting change. Reports to date take an in-depth look at institutional, corporate, and family philanthropy globally and in Asia. Institutional philanthropy and corporate giving reports also list the largest global and Asian funders.

Interest in high-impact Asian philanthropy has accelerated in recent years as regional wealth has soared and philanthropies look to expand and evolve their approaches to giving. While specific high-impact practices have global appeal, the way they play out in the local context of legal frameworks, corporate structures, and government policies often differs. Case studies from Asia and beyond in the reports below offer practical examples for philanthropies looking to create enduring impact.

High-Impact Institutional Philanthropy

Executive Summary: High-Impact Philanthropy: Five Practices That Lead to Lasting Change

Five high-impact practices that leading institutional philanthropies, both Asian and global, employ to produce lasting change.

High-Impact Philanthropy: Giving Better Across Asia and the World

This report explores the growth of institutional giving in Asia relative to other parts of the world and identifies five high-impact practices among them that produce lasting results.

The Largest Asian and Global Institutional Philanthropies

The 20 largest institutional philanthropies globally and in Asia, and the paths they pursue to achieve their objectives.

The Largest Institutional Philanthropies Step Up Giving

Philanthropy does not have deep enough pockets to replace tens of billions in cancelled development aid and cutbacks in social services, but some donors see a way forward.

The Largest Institutional Philanthropies Expand Giving Amidst Global Challenges

The largest institutional funders worldwide significantly increased their giving between 2020 and 2024, a period marked by pandemic, climate disasters, interstate conflicts, and growing demands on governments and civil society.

High-Impact Corporate Giving

High-Impact Approaches to Corporate Giving

Beginning with separate lists of the 20 largest corporate givers globally and in Asia, this report identifies a common set of considerations corporate givers navigate and three approaches that frame how corporations give.

高影响力企业捐赠策略

本报告以全球和亚洲各自最大的20家企业捐赠者名单为起点,梳理出企业捐赠共同面对的一系列考量,并提炼出界定企业捐赠方式的三种路径。

The Largest Corporate Funders Significantly Increase Their Giving

The 20 largest corporate givers globally increased their total annual contributions to initiatives supporting charitable activities by 80 percent between 2020 and 2024 while average annual giving by the largest corporate givers in Asia grew by 42 percent over that period.

High-Impact Family Philanthropy

High-Impact Family Philanthropy: What Makes Family Giving Distinctive

This report identifies three approaches that make family philanthropy distinctive: it takes risks others cannot or will not, facilitates collective action, and mobilises multiple types of capital.

How the World’s Wealthiest Families Give

This report provides a landscape analysis of giving by the 10 wealthiest individuals and families across 20 economies spanning Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.