By Marie LeBlanc, Community Partnerships Coordinator
The Catalogue for Philanthropy is excited to celebrate its tenth year of publication this year with the 2012/13 Catalogue. The following figures give a snapshot of the Catalogue, its applications, and community of nonprofits since the first Catalogue was published in 2003. We are also extremely proud to announce that as of this month, the Catalogue for Philanthropy has helped raise over $18 million for our nonprofits during the past 10 years!
In the past ten years …
- Over 2000 applications have been submitted for the Catalogue for Philanthropy, including 788 applications from new nonprofits and 360 applications to be re-listed in the Catalogue.
The Catalogue has maintained around a 30% acceptance rate since 2004.
- 480 unique organizations have been featured in the Catalogue since 2003 — over 500 including the Class of 2012/13. About 50% of Catalogue nonprofits are featured more than once.
- Of the 71 nonprofits featured in the first Catalogue in 2003, 32 nonprofits are still active members of the Catalogue network and have been relisted multiple times.
In 2012 …
- 204 total applications were reviewed by the Catalogue?s team of over 100 reviewers.
- 74 nonprofits were accepted into the print catalogue — 31 are new to Catalogue and 43 are relisted organizations. 11 organizations will be re-featured online.
- This year, 42% of nonprofits in the print catalogue are new, which is on par with past years. The odds have increased slightly in favor of re-lists over time. With so many quality organizations featured in the past 10 years, it’s hard to turn them down for a second or third feature!
- Of the 31 new nonprofits this year, 12 organizations had applied for the first time, but 14 organizations had applied unsuccessfully in the past before their acceptance this year — some as many as 4 or 5 times! 5 other nonprofits were previously featured in the Catalogue before 2008.
- 7 nonprofits have grown beyond the Catalogue’s budget threshold of $3 million and will also be re-featured online.
To learn more about the 2012/13 Catalogue nonprofits, check out the list here, and stay tuned for our updated website coming this fall!