How do I find funders for a grassroots disease and disorders nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on grassroots disease and disorders organizations, currently International Community Health Services, Autism Society of North Carolina, World Services for the Blind. 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 disease and disorders organizations?

$365M reached 2,636 grassroots disease and disorders organizations from 4,996 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.

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Who funds grassroots disease and disorders organizations

The funders that back grassroots disease and disorders organizations are specialists, not generalists: International Community Health Services gives them 497.9× the national rate, with 100% 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 disease and disorders nonprofit's time.

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2,636

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The short version

4,996 funders gave $365M to 2,636 grassroots disease and disorders organizations (grassroots (under $1M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is International Community Health Services, giving 497.9× the national rate to grassroots disease and disorders organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates, at $22M.
The grassroots disease and disorders organization drawing the most is Humc Cardiovascular Partners PC, at $22M.

Funders most focused on grassroots disease and disorders 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.

International Community Health Services497.9×$4M · 100% of its giving Autism Society of North Carolina380.8×$3M · 96% of its giving World Services for the Blind375×$2M · 100% of its giving Bay Area Lyme Major Gift Fund343.8×$2M · 100% of its giving Louisiana Lions Eye Foundation300.5×$2M · 100% of its giving Can Community Health Inc259.6×$1M · 99% of its giving Aim at Melanoma257.8×$1M · 94% of its giving Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation249.2×$1M · 99% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates$22M 2International Community Health Services$4M 3The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley$4M 4Friends of the Children$3M 5Autism Society of North Carolina$3M 6T Causemetics Foundation Dba Thrive$2M 7US Committee for Refugees And$2M 8World Services for the Blind$2M

Grassroots disease and disorders organizations that draw the most

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

2,626 other grassroots disease and disorders organizations$311M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a grassroots disease and disorders nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on grassroots disease and disorders organizations, currently International Community Health Services, Autism Society of North Carolina, World Services for the Blind. 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 disease and disorders organizations?: $365M reached 2,636 grassroots disease and disorders organizations from 4,996 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.