Senior Writer

Stephanie Beasley

Senior Writer

Stephanie Beasley is a senior writer at the Chronicle of Philanthropy where she covers major donors and charitable giving trends. She was previously a global philanthropy Reporter at Devex. Prior to that, she spent more than a decade as a policy Reporter on Capitol Hill specializing in transportation, transportation security, and food and drug safety.Stephanie has been awarded grants by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and the International Center for Journalists and has written stories from Brazil, Canada, Cuba and the U.S.-Mexico border. She is an alumna of the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned dual master’s degrees in journalism and Latin American Studies. She received a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College with concentrations in African American and Latin American Studies.

Advocacy

60 Years of Government Outsourcing to Nonprofits Could Be Coming to an End

Claire Dunning, author of “Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State” talks about how the 1964 war on poverty expanded federal grants to nonprofits to provide social services in low-income communities and how Trump appears to be dismantling that strategy.

By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer

Advocacy

Nonprofits Are Struggling. These Emergency Funds Are Offering Help

The philanthropic response to the federal government’s defunding of nonprofits has been sluggish, but emergency funds are starting to emerge. The Chronicle of Philanthropy provides a list.

By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer

Advocacy

Can GiveDirectly Show the Value of Universal Basic Income?

GiveDirectly has delivered more than $800 million to over 1.6 million people, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. Now it is experimenting with, and learning from, cash payments to recipients in the United States.

By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer

Advocacy

Nonprofits Feel ‘Defeated,’ Unsafe as Trump Rolls Out Policy Changes

Nearly 70 percent of nonprofit leaders say Trump’s policies have hurt their organizations’ work, and data shows much of the sector would collapse if federal funding were discontinued.

By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer

2025 Philanthropy 50

Meet the Mega-Donors of the Future

Whether self-made or inheritors, they’re serious about giving today and are poised to shape philanthropy in the coming decades.

By Stephanie Beasley and Eden Stiffman

Advocacy

‘Don’t Tell Your Strategy’: Bernice King Has Advice for Nonprofit Leaders

“I think everybody has to start looking at language,” says the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. “It doesn’t mean you have to go do away with your core mission, but you’re going to have to wordsmith to get through this season.”

By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer

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Advocacy

A Warning for Progressive Groups? Trump Yanks $50 Million From a Climate Justice Nonprofit

The Climate Justice Alliance was among 11 organizations chosen by the EPA to distribute $600 million to nonprofits. It was the first to be completely defunded.

By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer

Advocacy

Foundations Remain Largely Mute as Nonprofits Face Slashed Federal Funding

Most large private foundations have been slow to respond to the Trump administration’s policy changes affecting nonprofits. Bloomberg Philanthropies is the one exception.

By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer