The United States has the deepest, fastest-growing philanthropic base in the world — and real tax incentives that make giving more attractive to individual donors than in almost any other country. Here's the data behind why HAGE is built the way it is.
Giving directed specifically to women's and girls' organizations is a smaller, more specialized slice of US philanthropy — which is exactly why a dedicated vehicle like HAGE matters. According to the Women's Philanthropy Institute's 2025 Women & Girls Index, giving to organizations dedicated to women and girls surpassed 2% of all US charitable giving for the first time in 2022 (peaking at 2.18%), settling to 2.04% in 2023 — translating to more than $11 billion given annually to this cause area nationwide.
That's a meaningful, measurable pool of donors who already give specifically to causes like BAHS's — HAGE exists to give US-based Hilarians a direct, tax-efficient channel into it.
Philanthropists at every scale increasingly favor education and girls'/women's causes specifically. MacKenzie Scott — one of the most prolific individual philanthropists in the US — has given more than $26 billion to nonprofits since 2019 through her Yield Giving initiative, with education (particularly under-resourced colleges, universities, and community colleges) among her largest and most consistent priority areas. It's a visible example of a broader pattern: major US donors are actively looking for well-run, mission-clear education organizations to fund — exactly the kind of organization HAGE is built to be.
US-based fundraising lets HAGE draw on the world's largest, fastest-growing pool of education philanthropy — with real, quantifiable tax incentives that make giving more attractive to individual alumnae donors than almost any alternative. Combined with the specific, measurable market of donors who already give to women's and girls' causes, the opportunity for BAHS is real, current, and growing.