Program on Inequality and the Common Good

“There are nicer ways to do it. But the nice ways always fail.”

The highest-earning DAF now takes in $11 billion more than the highest-earning working charity.

In our new report, “Still A Dream,” we note progress—alongside some humbling findings about how far we have to go.

Exploring the burgeoning movement to organize the rich for our common good.

60 years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the racial wealth divide persists.

When charitable intermediaries tout their generosity, reporters should take a closer look.

Commercial DAF sponsors are squirreling away money intended for charities at a greater clip than they’re giving it away.

The industry not only exploits our planet’s precious resources but makes the rest of us subsidize the extravagant lifestyles of the ultra-rich.

The state legislature has blocked the city’s luxury real estate transfer tax for nearly four years.

A proposed tax hike on private jet fuel could raise $1.8 billion a year for sustainable transit.

Most private foundations stick quite closely to their 5 percent payout requirement. And America’s largest are unlikely to give much more than the minimum.

Democrats introduce a bill to hike fuel taxes on private jets and invest the new revenue in public transportation.

The IRS just released two years of long-awaited nonprofit tax filings. We found an enormous jump in DAF-to-DAF giving.

As climate change produces more misery, we will increasingly confront the question asked by Chuck Collins in his new novel: What does moral action look like against such an immoral status quo?

Congress should establish a national commission to examine the legacy of slavery and propose reparations funded by breaking up concentrated wealth in the United States.

In this episode of “For the Wild,” guest Cuck Collins dives deeply into the world of wealth hoarding and staggering inequality.

While our federal government backtracks, state and local lawmakers are increasingly taking action to repair racial divides through policies designed to address racial inequality.

Private foundations are currently allowed to make grants to donor-advised funds, or DAFs, and to count those grants toward their charitable distribution requirement of 5 percent of their assets each year.

Omar Ocampo joins Bringing Light into Darkness (BLID) to discuss IPS’ Report: “Extreme Wealth: The Growing Number of People With Extreme Wealth and What an Annual Wealth Tax Could Raise.”

Every year, wealthy donors divert more money into intermediaries, drying up the river of donations meant for working charities. We can change that.