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: Take Care Relief Fund Inc gives them 178.6× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Even within this band the money concentrates: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches draws 46% of it.
The short version
- 10,874 funders gave $3.4B to 1,921 large disaster and safety organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is Take Care Relief Fund Inc, giving 178.6× the national rate to large disaster and safety organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is Anne Ray Foundation, at $118M.
- The large disaster and safety organization drawing the most is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches, at $1.6B.
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.
Largest funders by dollars
Real grantmakers giving the most to large disaster and safety organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).
Large disaster and safety 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 large disaster and safety nonprofit?
- Start with the funders most focused on large disaster and safety organizations, currently Take Care Relief Fund Inc, National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster Inc, Justin J Watt Foundation 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 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 large disaster and safety organizations?
- $3.4B reached 1,921 large disaster and safety organizations from 10,874 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.