FundMiner Blog

2025 Recap: A Year of Growth in Fund Management

Written by FundMiner | Dec 23, 2025 4:53:39 AM

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on a year shaped by growth, collaboration, and meaningful progress across the fund management ecosystem. 

This past year reinforced a clear trend across higher education, healthcare, community foundations and nonprofits: fund management is no longer a back-office function. It’s central to donor trust, institutional accountability, and long-term impact. 

Here’s a snapshot of what 2025 looked like for FundMiner and the organizations we support. 

A Growing Footprint Across Sectors 

In 2025, FundMiner expanded its presence across 22 states in the U.S. and into three countries: the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Organizations across higher education, healthcare, community foundations, and nonprofit sectors continued to adopt FundMiner to bring greater clarity and coordination to fund management. 

This growth reflects more than scale. It signals a broader shift toward more intentional, transparent, and well-governed fund operations across mission-driven organizations. 

Growing Platform Impact  

Throughout the year, FundMiner users collectively managed activity across the platform that reflects how teams are using FundMiner to bring structure, visibility, and coordination to fund management:

  • $7.69 billion in endowment value managed on the platform

  • +164% growth in FundMiner platform users

  • +345% growth in the number of funds managed within FundMiner

Behind these numbers are development, finance, and stewardship teams using FundMiner to honor donor intent, reduce friction across departments, and make better decisions with centralized, reliable fund data.

 

 

Engaging the Fund Management Community 

Education and shared learning remained a core focus in 2025. FundMiner participated in more than 25 conferences, connecting with over 10,000 nonprofit professionals nationwide. 

We also expanded our online events and learning opportunities to help teams navigate real-world fund management challenges.

Highlights from Live Events 

Some of the most impactful events of the year included: 

These conversations underscored a growing demand for practical, experience-based guidance in an increasingly complex environment. 

Resources Teams Turned to Most 

In 2025, development teams looked for benchmarks and frameworks to assess and improve their operations. The most downloaded FundMiner resources included: 

  1. The Fund Management Maturity Model 
  1. Mission to Metrics: A Primer in Advancement Operations KPIs 
  1. Global Fund Management & Stewardship Benchmarking Survey Report 

Each reflects a shared priority across institutions: understanding where you are today and how to build toward a stronger future state. 

Product Enhancements Supporting Better Stewardship 

Product updates in 2025 focused on clarity, accuracy, and efficiency. Key enhancements included: 

  • Improved narrative request workflows for faster story collection and approvals 
  • Historical Fields, allowing teams to pin and retrieve data for audits and year-over-year reporting 

Together, these improvements helped teams spend less time managing data and more time delivering insight and impact. 

Growing Through Partnerships 

Collaboration remained essential throughout the year. FundMiner continued to grow alongside an expanding network of partners across the fund management ecosystem, supporting shared services, aligned best practices, and better outcomes for institutions navigating complex reporting and compliance needs. 

Highlights through the year included:

Looking Ahead 

As expectations around transparency, accountability, and impact reporting continue to rise, 2025 made one thing clear: strong fund management is foundational to institutional trust and long-term success. 

We’re grateful to the organizations, partners, and professionals who were part of this year with us. We look forward to sharing more insights, research, and resources in the year ahead. 

Stay connected.