Nonprofits

The nonprofit sector is facing a tough paradox right now. 🫴 Demand for services in 2025 continued to rise — especially in human services, housing, food access, and mental health — while many organizations are operating with thinner margins, unstable funding, and an increasingly stretched workforce. 🙋Leaders are faced with heightened challenges: - Growing community need 🆘 (see Independent Sector’s December 2025 report) - Funding uncertainty 💸 - especially around governme

Nonprofits have spent the first half of 2026 absorbing federal funding cuts, stricter immigration enforcement affecting the populations many organizations serve, and a philanthropic sector that — despite rising asset values — has been slow to expand support beyond statutory minimums. I got curious about how much optimism (or pessimism) is actually warranted here, so I went digging through recent reports to try to answer a simple question: is there basis for hope? Turns out: s