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: Hope International gives them 80.5× the national rate, with 99% of its grants going here.
The short version
- 12,949 funders gave $11.1B to 5,631 mid-size community development organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is Hope International, giving 80.5× the national rate to mid-size community development organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is The Kresge Foundation, at $124M.
- The mid-size community development organization drawing the most is Mission Asset Fund, at $98M.
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.
Largest funders by dollars
Real grantmakers giving the most to mid-size community development organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).
Mid-size community development organizations that draw the most
Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.
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 Hope International, Foundation for Uptown Reinvestment, Milwaukee Development 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 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 mid-size community development organizations?
- $11.1B reached 5,631 mid-size community development organizations from 12,949 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
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.