As US foundations have gained experience in using evaluation methods, several evaluation handbooks have been developed¹. In the European context, only a few examples of evaluation tools have been registered. They include the following:

• In its self-assessment tool² for trusts and foundations of all sizes, the Association of Charitable Foundations (United Kingdom) has published a section dealing with evaluation. The first part covers the evaluation of grants made (project level), while the second covers the evaluation of the trusts’ own performances (impact level).
• The Health Foundation (United Kingdom) has developed a handbook to support self-evaluation for grantees in the framework of the comprehensive evaluation of its leadership programme.
• The King Baudouin Foundation (Belgium) has developed a concrete approach based on an evaluation matrix considering on one side the process, output (deliverables), outcome (impact), and on the other side questions to be studied, the moment to perform the evaluation, audience, method, and evaluator. The matrix is a tool to grasp the various meanings and purposes of a specific evaluation activity and the related working methods to be developed.
  

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^[1]The Drucker Foundation self-assessment tool : process guide - Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999 ; How to evaluate foundation programs . - The Saint Paul Foundation, 1998 ; W.K. Kellogg Foundation evaluation handbook: W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 1998.

^[2] A quality framework. - London : Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF), 2002