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See how you can select a peer group using over 80 different criteria and view reports on data in several important content areas.

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Creating Peer Groups and Benchmarking Reports
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CF Insights Members The Field
Services Expert Guidance and Analysis Checked
Peer Learning and Connections Checked
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Consulting and Project Support Checked Checked
Tools Benchmarking and Custom Reports Checked with Annotation
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Activity-Based Costing Analysis Model Checked Checked
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benchmarking reports

Data We Collect
Data We Collect

Data Collected by CF Insights

All data collected by CF Insights is available to members as criteria with which to build peer groups and as the basis for over 60 on-demand reports.

Foundation Basics:

  • Fiscal Year End Date
  • Year Foundation Created
  • Staffing by Function
  • Strategic Operating Priorities
  • Affiliations with Other Foundations
  • Software Type Used
  • Engagement in the Following Areas:
    • Community Leadership
    • Fiscal Sponsorship/Fundraising
    • Fundraising for Operations
    • Nonprofit Resource Center
    • Services to Private Foundations
    • Special Initiatives

Geographic:

  • Urban vs. Rural
  • Population of Area Served
  • Geographic Area Served
  • State
  • Region

Assets and Funds:

  • Total Assets
  • Total Assets by Product Type
  • Total Number of Foundation Funds
  • Total Number of DAFs
  • Total Number of Funds Held at SOs
  • Total Number of SOs
  • Operating Endowment and Reserves

 

Expenses:

  • Total Operating Expenses
  • Special Initiative Operations Expenses
  • Operating Expenses as Percent of Assets

Contributions:

  • Total Foundation Contributions - $ and #
  • Total Contributions to DAFs - $ and #
  • Total Contributions to SOs - $ and #

Grants:

  • Total Foundation Grants - $ and #
  • Total Grants from DAFs - $ and #
  • Total Grants from SOs - $ and #

Activity-Based Costing Results:

  • Contributions/Subsidies by Product - $
  • Total Cost by Product - $
  • Total Cost by Activity Type - $

Administrative Fee Schedules:

CF Insights collects the following fee information by specific product and fund type.

  • Total Fees
  • Minimum Fees
  • Minimum Fund Balance

Investment Data from the Colonial Consulting/FAOG Investment Survey:

Colonial Consulting and FAOG provide CF Insights with the results of their annual and quarterly investment surveys.

  • Annualized Returns
  • Overall Allocation
  • Equity Allocation
  • Fixed Income Allocation
  • Alternate Allocation

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Expert Guidance and Analysis

The CF Insights team works closely with you and your board to interpret comparative data, raise strategic questions, inform policy changes, and connect you to colleagues for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.

How can we understand the best way to look at ourselves and our peers?
Conversations with CF Insights help provide a rich context to help you better understand your own unique positioning, resources, and challenges.

  • “The dashboards – and the discussions surrounding how to most appropriately define ‘peer’ – have been so helpful."

    Susan Graves, Executive Director
    Communities Foundation of Oklahoma

How can we determine who we are and where we are headed? 
CF Insights staff help inform board discussions with observations about the context of the changing community foundation field and your unique role.

  • “Overall, it was an amazing retreat, incredibly educational for Board members – now we can get more done because everyone has more knowledge about community foundations – and it’s been invaluable for strategic planning meetings that we’ve had subsequently."

    Trisha Worthington, Executive Director
    Park City Foundation

Data We Collect

All data collected by CF Insights can be used by members to build peer groups and inform over 60 on-demand reports.

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