Please join me in congratulating Brad Fulton, associate professor of nonprofit management in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, on receiving a $5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to oversee research for one of its National Storytelling Initiative projects, as well as for receiving the 2025 RGK-ARNOVA President's Award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) for his research on philanthropic redlining.
Brad, whose research focuses on the nonprofit sector, directs the Philanthropy Lab, which combines social science and data science to advance giving and volunteering. He has compiled millions of IRS records on nonprofit organizations and constructed a funder-grantee network dataset of the entire nonprofit sector with the aim of increasing the sector’s effectiveness and impact.
Applications of his research include collaborating with IU Innovates to identify foundations most likely to fund faculty research, partnering with the Center for Rural Engagement to direct resources to rural areas, and helping the Tobias Center for Innovation in International Development map the distribution of philanthropic funding outside the U.S.
Congratulations, Professor Fulton!