Nonprofit Fundraising Growth Slowed Over Summer: Blackbaud

During this period, overall charitable revenue for organizations with prior year revenue of less than $1 million increased by 19.3% in August, decreased by 0.3% at organizations with prior year revenue of $1 million to $10 million and grew by 6.4% at groups with prior year revenue of more than $10 million.

Online revenue for the June-to-August period increased by 6.1%, compared with the same period in 2010. This trend is based on $426 million in 12 months' online revenue from 1,780 organizations.

As part of its latest report, Blackbaud rolled out a new specialty index, focused on the health-care sub-sector, which will be updated monthly. Constituents are organizations that provide care, such as clinics and hospitals, as well as health-related research facilities, disease-specific organizations for research or patient/family support, mental health services and research, and health policy centers.

For the three months to the end of August, the new sub-sector showed an overall revenue decrease of 5.5%, compared with the same period in 2010. This trend is based on $440 million in 12 months' revenue from 184 organizations. At the same time, health-care organizations' online revenue increased by 3.1%, based on $205 million in 12 months' revenue from 472 organizations.