Most donors have something very specific in mind when they establish a private foundation.
Poets have poems, statesmen have history books, and lesser mortals have progeny. Sufficiently endowed, these vessels of immortality get to dispense beneficent memories of the founder long into the future. Over time however, the original focus can be lost, or even subverted, when those who administer the largesse embrace different philanthropic values. The issue here is donor intent, meaning a donation's guiding purpose as set down in the foundation charter, be it to display the donor's art collection or to provide scholarships for the donor's high school. The recipient, of course, is obliged to recognize and fulfill the donor's wishes.