Fiscal Sponsorship - A Brief History and Possible Future

Fiscal sponsorship is a “new-old” field, just beginning to attain maturity as a field. There are approximately 300 self-identified fiscal sponsors according to a directory maintained by the San Francisco Study Center. Many have achieved notable scale, and there is a large and ever-growing knowledge base of practice. This progress aside, the field of fiscal sponsorship--the ecosystem as a whole--has only recently begun to develop its own collective and capacity building infrastructure.