Forty percent of nonprofits have declined a gift, according to a new survey, and the most common reason cited by those nonprofits (39 percent) was that it came with too many strings attached.
Asked for examples, one nonprofit official said a donor wanted the organization to start a program that did not align with its mission. Another said it declined a donor who wanted too much control over the organization.
The data is from a survey by the Center for Effective Philanthropy.
The second most common reason listed for denying a donor (27 percent) had more to do with the practicality of the contribution: the gift would have been too hard to liquidate or would have been a liability. One respondent declined a gift of property because the land could not be redeveloped and the existing building was too expensive to renovate. Another respondent declined a “collection which would have cost more to archive and clear out than it would have brought in for the organization.”
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