A note to the reader
This issue draws from listed companies, households, experiments and other adjacent settings. It is not a collection of 100 studies directly sampling family offices. Use the evidence to sharpen questions; check each paper’s population, methods and limitations before applying it. Each source has its own passage agent. Original findings remain distinct from the editorial practice articles elsewhere in the journal.
1–10 of 10 articles · Giving with purpose
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Julia S. Nakamura; Dorota Węziak-Białowolska; Robert D. Woodberry; Laura D. Kubzansky; Koichiro Shiba; R. Noah Padgett; Byron R. Johnson; Tyler J. VanderWeele
Scientific Reports · 2025-04-30 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for a family foundation’s donor strategy, grantmaking assumptions and evaluation of charitable behavior; not a direct study of family-office investment performance.
Giving with purpose · Research source
Julia Litofcenko; Michael Meyer; Michaela Neumayr; Astrid Pennerstorfer
Voluntas · 2023-02-28 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for a family foundation’s donor strategy, grantmaking assumptions and evaluation of charitable behavior; not a direct study of family-office investment performance.
Giving with purpose · Research source
Hagit Sabato
PLOS One · 2025-04-25 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for a family foundation’s donor strategy, grantmaking assumptions and evaluation of charitable behavior; not a direct study of family-office investment performance.
Giving with purpose · Research source
Loukas Balafoutas; Sarah Rezaei
Scientific Reports · 2022-12-01 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for a family foundation’s donor strategy, grantmaking assumptions and evaluation of charitable behavior; not a direct study of family-office investment performance.
Giving with purpose · Research source
Anja Köbrich Leon; Janosch Schobin
PLOS ONE · 2023-08-23 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for a family foundation’s donor strategy, grantmaking assumptions and evaluation of charitable behavior; not a direct study of family-office investment performance.
Giving with purpose · Research source
Joel H Suss
PLOS ONE · 2023-06-14 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for a family foundation’s donor strategy, grantmaking assumptions and evaluation of charitable behavior; not a direct study of family-office investment performance.
Giving with purpose · Research source
Pablo Brañas-Garza; Diego Jorrat; Jaromír Kovářík; María C. López
PLoS ONE · 2021-08-25 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for a family foundation’s donor strategy, grantmaking assumptions and evaluation of charitable behavior; not a direct study of family-office investment performance.
Giving with purpose · Research source
Una O Osili; Jacqueline Ackerman; Chin Hua Kong; Robert P Light; Katy Börner
PLoS ONE · 2017-05-26 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for a family foundation’s donor strategy, grantmaking assumptions and evaluation of charitable behavior; not a direct study of family-office investment performance.
Giving with purpose · Research source
Martin Korndörfer; Boris Egloff; Stefan C. Schmukle
PLoS ONE · 2015-07-20 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for a family foundation’s donor strategy, grantmaking assumptions and evaluation of charitable behavior; not a direct study of family-office investment performance.
Giving with purpose · Research source
Natalie Jane de Vries; Rodrigo Reis; Pablo Moscato
PLoS ONE · 2015-04-07 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for a family foundation’s donor strategy, grantmaking assumptions and evaluation of charitable behavior; not a direct study of family-office investment performance.