This study examines place-based philanthropy in public ancillary funds (PubAFs) in Australia. While PubAFs vary greatly in their purposes, stakeholders, and operating models, place emerges as a strong element of foundations’ perceived identity, strategic focus, and grantmaking. This article advances the understanding of philanthropic giving by investigating and identifying the perceptions of place by PubAF managers and trustees, contributing to a novel and valuable “insiders” perspective on PubAFs. Drawing on Agnew’s three elements of place, namely location, locale, and sense of place, key findings highlight PubAFs’ ties to place in multiple contexts and dimensions. This qualitative study contributes to understandings of the ways in which place shapes and defines giving by public foundations, overlaps and interacts with foundations’ mission and strategy, and affects philanthropic impact.

这项研究调查了澳大利亚公共辅助基金（PubAFs）中的地方性慈善事业。尽管PubAF的目的，利益相关者和运营模式差异很大，但场所却成为基金会感知的身份，战略重点和赠款的重要组成部分。本文通过调查和确定PubAF经理和受托人对地方的看法，从而增进了对慈善捐赠的理解，为PubAF的新颖而有价值的“内部人士”观点做出了贡献。主要发现利用Agnew的三个位置要素，即位置，位置和位置感，突出了PubAF在多个上下文和维度中与位置的联系。这项定性研究有助于理解公共基金会如何塑造和定义捐赠方式，