What Foundation CEOs Think About Evaluation

The Center for Effective Philanthropy released a survey at its conference in Boston that injects some new data into the debate about whether foundations are doing enough — or too much, in the eyes of some — to measure their performance.

Seventy-two percent of the 537 foundation chief executives surveyed said that assessing their organization’s performance is a high priority, and 68 percent believe grant makers have made great progress in measuring their performance over the past decade.