Who funds disaster and safety
$10.4B reached 41,631 disaster and safety organizations across the 2022 and 2023 filings. The money concentrates: the few largest organizations draw a heavy share of it.
The short version
- $10.4B in tracked US grants reached 41,631 disaster and safety organizations across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
- The single largest recipient, American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches, drew $1.6B, 15% of all tracked disaster and safety funding.
- The most committed funder is Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc, which gives 122.5× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going to disaster and safety.
- Most disaster and safety money lands on organizations in Washington, D.C., 22% of the tracked total.
Funders most focused on disaster and safety
Not the biggest checks, the most committed. Each funder's share of giving to disaster and safety, against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank. The multiple is how many times the national rate it gives.
Organizations that draw the most
The disaster and safety organizations receiving the most grant money, sized by dollars. Pick one to see who funds it.
Where the money lands
The states whose organizations draw the most disaster and safety money.
Largest funders of disaster and safety
Funders by organization size
Who funds disaster and safety organizations at each size, with the funders most focused on them. Useful if you are small and the big-institution funders are not a fit.
Questions and answers
- What counts as disaster and safety in this data?
- Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission; where that is unclear we fall back to the recipient's IRS activity category. Disaster and safety covers every grant placed there, counted by where the money lands.
- What is the difference between the largest and the most committed funders of disaster and safety?
- The largest by dollars are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund and American Online Giving Foundation Inc, but they spread money across many causes. The most committed concentrate on disaster and safety: Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Inc gives 122.5× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going there.
- How can a disaster and safety nonprofit find funders?
- Look beyond the biggest names to the specialists, the funders giving disaster and safety an outsized share of their budget, and to the states where disaster and safety money concentrates, led by Washington, D.C.. Both are listed on this page.
- How recent is this disaster and safety funding data?
- It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.
More from the funding graph
Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission; where that is unclear we fall back to the recipient's IRS activity category. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.