How do I find funders for a mid-size civil rights and advocacy nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations, currently Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc, Beren Sea Foundation. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.

What counts as a mid-size organization here?

Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: mid-size ($1M to $10M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.

How much grant money goes to mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations?

$2.4B reached 827 mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations from 4,855 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Causes · Civil rights and advocacy · mid-size

Who funds mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations

The funders that back mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations are specialists, not generalists: Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc gives them 102.9× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

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The short version

4,855 funders gave $2.4B to 827 mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc, giving 102.9× the national rate to mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, at $65M.
The mid-size civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is Measures for Justice Institute, at $27M.

Funders most focused on mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations

Not the biggest checks, the most committed: each gives this size and cause an outsized share of its budget against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank.

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc102.9×$14M · 100% of its giving American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc101×$38M · 86% of its giving Beren Sea Foundation84.8×$7M · 97% of its giving Houston in Action79.4×$6M · 93% of its giving California Court Appointed Special77.5×$18M · 69% of its giving The National Press Club75.6×$5M · 100% of its giving Justice Catalyst Inc74.3×$5M · 89% of its giving Students For Fair Admissions Inc68.6×$4M · 99% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

Real grantmakers giving the most to mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).

1The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation$65M 2The Ford Foundation$42M 3Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc$42M 4American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$38M 5New Venture Fund$34M 6John D and Catherine T Macarthur$32M 7The California Endowment$30M 8Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc$30M

Mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

817 other mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations$2.2B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size civil rights and advocacy nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations, currently Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc, Beren Sea Foundation. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.
What counts as a mid-size organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: mid-size ($1M to $10M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations?: $2.4B reached 827 mid-size civil rights and advocacy organizations from 4,855 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Size is median total revenue; cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File. Read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML across recent fiscal years, among (c)(3) funders and recipients resolved by EIN, with the regranting layer netted out. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.