Using nonprofit organization-level financial data to infer managers' fund-raising strategies

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tinkelman, D
• 署名单位: Pace University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2003.12.003
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 2181-2192
• 关键词: fund-raising strategies; nonprofit organization; financial data

摘要

Using IRS data from 1982 to 1994, this study finds the typical fund-raising elasticities in seven categories of nonprofit organizations to be between zero and one. These results are consistent with most nonprofit managers following intermediate strategies between pure program service maximization and pure organization size maximization. However, the distribution of fund-raising elasticities contains extreme observations that can disproportionately affect mean elasticities and standard deviations. As a result, prior researchers' tests of the difference of mean elasticities from zero may not properly characterize the behavior of typical nonprofit organizations. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.