Blackbaud Giving Fund

Legal name: The Blackbaud Giving Fund

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460942102
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Charleston, SC, USA
Phone
8436542079
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$545,823,387
Expenses
$540,677,302
Assets
$56,012,024
Liabilities
$23,406,400

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MATTHEW NASH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MATTHEW NASH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $365,006 total reported compensation
  • HOLLY IVEL (OPERATIONS DIRECTOR): $176,952 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER STUDLEY (TREASURER): $32,235 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Blackbaud Giving Fund is a 501(c)(3) that disburses charitable donations from individuals and companies directly to nonprofit organizations around the world. We sent you a check because one or more donors wanted to support your cause through either a corporate giving program or an individual fundraiser campaign. We have issued them a receipt on your behalf. I received a check from you, now what? Cash it! Put it in the bank and use it to support your mission. We invite you to sign up for Blackbaud Verified Network, the free platform designed to simplify donation management. On the platform you can opt for ACH payments, access dashboards, review data, analyze volunteer activity, engage with new or existing donors, and more.

What it reported doing in 2025

Bbgf accelerates the flow and impact of generosity by facilitating charitable giving and grantmaking through a broad range of corporate, employee, consumer, and philanthropic giving programs. Bbgf oversees, assesses, aggregates, and distributes charitable funds through workplace giving, matching gift programs, peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives, donor-advised grantmaking, and other charitable giving solutions, making timely grants to vetted nonprofit organizations in the united states and around the world that qualify in accordance with applicable charitable and tax regulations. (continued on schedule o)bbgf supports a wide range of charitable purposes, including education, human services for the distressed and underprivileged, scientific research, health, arts and humanities, religion, children and youth, wildlife and animal welfare, disease prevention, disaster relief, community development, and international aid.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 99% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.9%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 99.8%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 91.2%; rating input score 91; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 98.9% of revenue deployed · 99.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $539.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $365K · 8 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $126K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 32 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.