Valuation Guidance

Question V.C: Grants Made

This question asks that you report the number (not the dollar value) of grants made during the survey year, along with the number of recipient organizations that benefitted from those grants.

Survey Instructions:

o Number of Grants: You may also think of this as “number of contribution transactions” with recipient nonprofit organizations. For many companies, this can be understood as the number of checks written or number of product-donation transactions. The number of product donations given is not the number of products donated, but rather the number of times donations are distributed to nonprofit organizations.

§ The purpose of this question is to calculate “average grant size,” which is computed by dividing total giving by the number of grants reported here.

§ CECP does not include the value of matching gifts. Therefore, do not include the number of grants made as a result of the corporate match of employee giving. Also exclude Dollars for Doers grants.

o Number of Recipient Organizations: This is the number of 501(c)(3) organizations receiving grants from your company. Do not double-count organizations.