The first volume of Profiles in Giving established a base for the ways in which foundations can consider their investments to communities of color by way of support to organizations led by and serving those communities. The report operated with the assumption that it is important to fund these organizations.

This report follows this line of thought and continues to raise key questions for the field in this area. Such questions include, why is it important to fund these organizations, perhaps now more than ever? If foundations are to adopt explicit strategies to allocate funds by the demographics of grantees, what should drive such decisions? What systems can be put in place in philanthropic organizations to track and monitor spending and support to these groups?