How do I find funders for a large education nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on large education organizations, currently Gothic Corporation, Atlantic Coast Conference, Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences. 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 education organizations?

$64.5B reached 3,830 large education organizations from 37,255 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 · Education · large

Who funds large education organizations

The most committed funder, Gothic Corporation, gives large education organizations 4.7× the national rate. Large education institutions draw a deep funder base, 10 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.

$64.5B

granted

3,830

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37,255

funders

The short version

37,255 funders gave $64.5B to 3,830 large education organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Gothic Corporation, giving 4.7× the national rate to large education organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Nyu Langone Hospitals, at $4.1B.
The large education organization drawing the most is New York University, at $4.6B.

Funders most focused on large education 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.

Gothic Corporation4.7×$3.3B · 100% of its giving Atlantic Coast Conference4.7×$625M · 100% of its giving Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences4.7×$275M · 100% of its giving Aaa Scholarship Foundation Inc4.7×$251M · 100% of its giving Pac-12 Conference4.7×$209M · 100% of its giving The Big 12 Conference Inc4.7×$178M · 100% of its giving Spelman College Special Ventures Fund Inc4.7×$169M · 100% of its giving Montefiore Medical Center4.6×$232M · 99% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Nyu Langone Hospitals$4.1B 2Gothic Corporation$3.3B 3Gates Foundation$1.3B 4Lilly Endowment Inc$722M 5Educational Credit$661M 6Atlantic Coast Conference$625M 7The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc$373M 8National Collegiate Athletic Association$305M

Large education organizations that draw the most

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

3,820 other large education organizations$47B

New York University$4.6B Duke University$4.1B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a large education nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on large education organizations, currently Gothic Corporation, Atlantic Coast Conference, Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences. 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 education organizations?: $64.5B reached 3,830 large education organizations from 37,255 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.