How do I find funders for a grassroots disaster and safety nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on grassroots disaster and safety organizations, currently Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescu, California Fire Safe Council Inc, Jgive-Friends of Asor Fund USA Inc. 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 grassroots organization here?

Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: grassroots (under $1M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.

How much grant money goes to grassroots disaster and safety organizations?

$211M reached 3,076 grassroots disaster and safety organizations from 3,345 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 · Disaster and safety · grassroots

Who funds grassroots disaster and safety organizations

The funders that back grassroots disaster and safety organizations are specialists, not generalists: Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescu gives them 448× the national rate, with 70% of its grants going here. These are the small organizations the big-institution funders usually miss, so the funders that show up here are the ones worth a small disaster and safety nonprofit's time.

$211M

granted

3,076

organizations

3,345

funders

The short version

3,345 funders gave $211M to 3,076 grassroots disaster and safety organizations (grassroots (under $1M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescu, giving 448× the national rate to grassroots disaster and safety organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is California Fire Safe Council Inc, at $5M.
The grassroots disaster and safety organization drawing the most is Colorado Healing Fund, at $3M.

Funders most focused on grassroots disaster and safety 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.

Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescu448×$2M · 70% of its giving California Fire Safe Council Inc362.5×$5M · 30% of its giving Jgive-Friends of Asor Fund USA Inc342.3×$1M · 81% of its giving Broughton Foundation Trust272.3×$1M · 37% of its giving Kennett Fire and EMS Regional231.8×$2M · 22% of its giving Dickson-Allen Foundation230.1×$1M · 25% of its giving The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc218.2×$620k · 55% of its giving Kennedy Wilson Charitable Foundation206.7×$833k · 29% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

Real grantmakers giving the most to grassroots disaster and safety organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).

1California Fire Safe Council Inc$5M 2The Vermont Community Foundation$3M 3Colorado Gives Foundation$2M 4Kennett Fire and EMS Regional$2M 5The Lozier Foundation$2M 6Community Foundation of Abilene$2M 7Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc$2M 8Central Montana Foundation$2M

Grassroots disaster and safety organizations that draw the most

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

3,066 other grassroots disaster and safety organizations$190M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a grassroots disaster and safety nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on grassroots disaster and safety organizations, currently Washington County Volunteer Fire & Rescu, California Fire Safe Council Inc, Jgive-Friends of Asor Fund USA Inc. 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 grassroots organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: grassroots (under $1M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to grassroots disaster and safety organizations?: $211M reached 3,076 grassroots disaster and safety organizations from 3,345 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.