How do I find funders for a large community development nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on large community development organizations, currently Jobsohio Beverage System, Hadassah Medical Relief Association Inc, Biome Global Foundation. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.

How much grant money goes to large community development organizations?

$14.3B reached 1,529 large community development organizations from 6,934 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 · Community development · large

Who funds large community development organizations

The funders that back large community development organizations are specialists, not generalists: Jobsohio Beverage System gives them 65.5× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

$14.3B

granted

1,529

organizations

6,934

funders

The short version

6,934 funders gave $14.3B to 1,529 large community development organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Jobsohio Beverage System, giving 65.5× the national rate to large community development organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Jobsohio Beverage System, at $2.6B.
The large community development organization drawing the most is Jobsohio, at $2.6B.

Funders most focused on large community development 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.

Jobsohio Beverage System65.5×$2.6B · 100% of its giving Hadassah Medical Relief Association Inc64.2×$571M · 99% of its giving Biome Global Foundation63.1×$76M · 100% of its giving The Real Estate Trust of Silicon Valley Community Foundation62.7×$63M · 100% of its giving k18n Foundation62.5×$60M · 100% of its giving Salesmanship Club Foundation61.4×$43M · 100% of its giving Cpc Tenant and Building Services Inc61.2×$41M · 100% of its giving Nashville District Management Corp Inc60.5×$35M · 100% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

Real grantmakers giving the most to large community development organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).

1Jobsohio Beverage System$2.6B 2Hadassah Medical Relief Association Inc$571M 3Lilly Endowment Inc$316M 4Gates Foundation$173M 5Foundation to Promote Open Society$150M 6Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc$145M 7Freedom Together Foundation$136M 8The California Endowment$132M

Large community development organizations that draw the most

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

1,519 other large community development organizations$8.7B

Jobsohio$2.6B Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$529M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a large community development nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on large community development organizations, currently Jobsohio Beverage System, Hadassah Medical Relief Association Inc, Biome Global 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 large organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is where each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear.
How much grant money goes to large community development organizations?: $14.3B reached 1,529 large community development organizations from 6,934 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 unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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; each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear. 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.