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

Start with the funders most focused on large disaster and safety organizations, currently Play for Pink Inc, LifeFlight Foundation, Take Care Relief Fund 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 large organization here?

Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.

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

$607M reached 46 large disaster and safety organizations from 1,938 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 · large

Who funds large disaster and safety organizations

The funders that back large disaster and safety organizations are specialists, not generalists: Play for Pink Inc gives them 427.4× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Large disaster and safety institutions draw a deep funder base, 42 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.

$607M

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1,938

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The short version

1,938 funders gave $607M to 46 large disaster and safety organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Play for Pink Inc, giving 427.4× the national rate to large disaster and safety organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Breakthrough Prize Foundation, at $20M.
The large disaster and safety organization drawing the most is Airbnborg Inc, at $97M.

Funders most focused on large 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.

Play for Pink Inc427.4×$17M · 100% of its giving LifeFlight Foundation368.3×$8M · 100% of its giving Take Care Relief Fund Inc340.4×$6M · 100% of its giving Breakthrough Prize Foundation321.6×$20M · 71% of its giving The Pink Agenda Inc278.2×$4M · 100% of its giving Ulta Beauty Charitable Foundation254×$18M · 55% of its giving Gofundmeorg215.2×$19M · 46% of its giving Joseph & Arlene Taub Foundation198×$2M · 81% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Breakthrough Prize Foundation$20M 2Gofundmeorg$19M 3Ulta Beauty Charitable Foundation$18M 4Play for Pink Inc$17M 5The Jewish Federations of North America Inc$14M 6Mastercard Impact Fund$9M 7LifeFlight Foundation$8M 8Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc$7M

Large disaster and safety organizations that draw the most

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

36 other large disaster and safety organizations$116M

Airbnborg Inc$97M The Breast Cancer Research$97M United Way for Southeastern Michigan$68M Team Rubicon Inc$63M Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc$51M The American India Foundation$34M Secure Community Network Inc$24M The St Bernard Project Inc$22M E4e Relief LLC$19M Israaid US Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc$15M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a large disaster and safety nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on large disaster and safety organizations, currently Play for Pink Inc, LifeFlight Foundation, Take Care Relief Fund 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 large organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to large disaster and safety organizations?: $607M reached 46 large disaster and safety organizations from 1,938 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.