Brendan McCormick

Brendan McCormick, associate director of research and publications at Exponent Philanthropy, leads efforts to develop research-based resources, focusing on how lean foundations approach impact, evaluation, operations, and equity practices. He works with staff, members, and partners to develop resources grounded in research. He leads our efforts to learn more about our community of lean funders. Brendan focuses his research on how foundations approach impact and evaluation, investments, operations, demographics, and equity practices.

He has worked in philanthropy and grantmaking with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Greater Washington Community Foundation. He earned his master’s degree in public policy at the University of Maryland where he focused on nonprofit management and social policy.