How do I find funders for a mid-size community development nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size community development organizations, currently Milwaukee Development Corporation, Foundation for Uptown Reinvestment, Uptown Reinvestment Corporation. 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 community development organizations?

$3.4B reached 2,106 mid-size community development organizations from 7,436 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 · mid-size

Who funds mid-size community development organizations

The funders that back mid-size community development organizations are specialists, not generalists: Milwaukee Development Corporation gives them 84× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

$3.4B

granted

2,106

organizations

7,436

funders

The short version

7,436 funders gave $3.4B to 2,106 mid-size community development organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Milwaukee Development Corporation, giving 84× the national rate to mid-size community development organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Lilly Endowment Inc, at $153M.
The mid-size community development organization drawing the most is Indiana Economic Development, at $159M.

Funders most focused on mid-size 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.

Milwaukee Development Corporation84×$38M · 100% of its giving Foundation for Uptown Reinvestment81×$25M · 100% of its giving Uptown Reinvestment Corporation77.5×$18M · 100% of its giving Samaritan's Feet International72.1×$12M · 100% of its giving Bonton Enterprises67.7×$9M · 100% of its giving American Agape Foundation Inc64.9×$9M · 95% of its giving Chicanos Por la Causa Inc64.4×$10M · 89% of its giving Love Thy Neighbor Too63.5×$16M · 81% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Lilly Endowment Inc$153M 2WK Kellogg Foundation$39M 3Milwaukee Development Corporation$38M 4The California Endowment$35M 5California Community Foundation$26M 6Foundation for Uptown Reinvestment$25M 7Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$25M 8The James Irvine Foundation$21M

Mid-size community development organizations that draw the most

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

2,096 other mid-size community development organizations$3.0B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size community development nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size community development organizations, currently Milwaukee Development Corporation, Foundation for Uptown Reinvestment, Uptown Reinvestment Corporation. 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 community development organizations?: $3.4B reached 2,106 mid-size community development organizations from 7,436 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.