H1: The proportion of a nonprofit organization's budget that is philanthropically funded increases as the composition of its leadership (executive director, senior management, board) more closely mirrors that of philanthropy (disproportionately racialized as white) as opposed to clients/ constituents (disproportionately racialized as other).

  • To what extent does leadership's racial composition, relative to other contributing factors, explain racial funding gap?

H2: The proportion of an organization's budget that is philanthropically funded increases as the proportion of programming devoted to service delivery as opposed to constituent-led organizing for institutional and structural level policy change increases.

  • To what extent does focus of programming, relative to other contributing factors, explain the gap in funding for service-oriented organizations compared to those oriented toward mass movement organizing?

How do I address the possibility of endogeneity: Some organizations led by racialized others and/ or devoted to movement organizing may not pursue philanthropic funding because the funding priorities do not accommodate their missions or because they deliberately want to avoid being co-opted by philanthropy (white wealth).

How do I address the possibility of multicolinearity (?) and/ or covariance (?), in that the organizations led by racialized others and/ or devoted to movement organizing are often younger, smaller, and less financially secure?

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