William G. Bowen, Thomas I. Nygren, Sarah E. Turner,
& Elizabeth A. Duffy (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994)
A comprehensive study of the nonprofit sector, spanning
more than two decades, using an institutional perspective, this report describes
the world of charitable nonprofits as they exist today; based on an analysis
of IRS data on public charities, this important volume examines aspects of donative
nonprofits ignored by other researchers including patterns of organizational
births and deaths, geographical distribution, fields of activity, patterns of
income and expenditure, and life cycles, in the period 1965–1990; and examines
the complex relationship of such factors as institutional type, age, size, and
access to sources of revenue to reveal characteristic revenue profiles. It devotes
particular attention to higher education, civil rights, and cultural and performing
arts organizations. Hardcover, 326 pages, $43.95