High-Impact Philanthropy: Practices that Achieve Lasting Results

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

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Drawing on interviews and case studies, this report explores how families use their distinctive autonomy to take risks, facilitate collective action, and mobilise different forms of capital to achieve lasting change.

Analysis of publicly observable giving practices among 186 of the world’s wealthiest families across 20 economies reveals substantial similarities across regions and explores how business ownership, national income, and policy context help explain differences.