How do I find funders for a mid-size disease and disorders nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size disease and disorders organizations, currently Blue Bird Foundation, St Vincent's Birmingham, Fund for the Global Fund. 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 mid-size organization here?

Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: mid-size ($1M to $10M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.

How much grant money goes to mid-size disease and disorders organizations?

$763M reached 758 mid-size disease and disorders organizations from 5,594 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 · Disease and disorders · mid-size

Who funds mid-size disease and disorders organizations

The funders that back mid-size disease and disorders organizations are specialists, not generalists: Blue Bird Foundation gives them 322.2× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

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The short version

5,594 funders gave $763M to 758 mid-size disease and disorders organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Blue Bird Foundation, giving 322.2× the national rate to mid-size disease and disorders organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Gates Foundation, at $26M.
The mid-size disease and disorders organization drawing the most is African Leaders Malaria Alliance Inc, at $15M.

Funders most focused on mid-size 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.

Blue Bird Foundation322.2×$12M · 100% of its giving St Vincent's Birmingham265.7×$6M · 98% of its giving Fund for the Global Fund258.5×$5M · 100% of its giving Community House Charitable Trust191.1×$3M · 100% of its giving Ann and Ari Deshe Foundation176.7×$3M · 79% of its giving The Center for Comprehensive Care And171.1×$5M · 58% of its giving Hulda B & Maurice L Rothschild FDN167×$2M · 97% of its giving Wellness House Foundation Inc149.3×$2M · 100% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Gates Foundation$26M 2Blue Bird Foundation$12M 3Tides Center$11M 4Area Agency on Aging of Palm Beach$9M 5St Vincent's Birmingham$6M 6The Gilbert Family Foundation$6M 7Fund for the Global Fund$5M 8Simpson Psb Fund$5M

Mid-size disease and disorders organizations that draw the most

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

748 other mid-size disease and disorders organizations$646M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size disease and disorders nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size disease and disorders organizations, currently Blue Bird Foundation, St Vincent's Birmingham, Fund for the Global Fund. 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 mid-size organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: mid-size ($1M to $10M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to mid-size disease and disorders organizations?: $763M reached 758 mid-size disease and disorders organizations from 5,594 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.