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- Description
Presents findings on family foundations' choices to spend down or to exist in perpetuity and the factors involved, including foundation assets, age, and presence of a living founder. Explores potential effects of the economic crisis on lifespan planning.

- Published by
- Foundation Center
- Funded by
- Aspen Institute
- Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program
- The Wallace Foundation
- Issue areas
- Nonprofits and Philanthropy
- Document type
- Report/Whitepaper
- Survey
- Geography
- North America / United States
- Copyright
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
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- Title
- Perpetuity or Limited Lifespan: How Do Family Foundations Decide?
- Publication date
- 2009-04-30
- Publication year
- 2009
- Authors
- David Wolcheck , Loren Renz
- Copyright holder(s)
- Foundation Center
- Geographical focus
- North America / United States
- Keywords
- limited lifespan, lifespan, perpetuity, family foundations
- Document type
- Report/Whitepaper, Survey
- URL
- https://candid.issuelab.org/resource/perpetuity-or-limited-lifespan-how-do-family-foundations-decide.html
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