How do I find funders for a mid-size education nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size education organizations, currently Spark Sf Public Schools, Tomchei Torah B'Eretz Yisrael Inc Tomchei Torah B'Eret, Case Alumni Foundation. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.

How much grant money goes to mid-size education organizations?

$34.2B reached 15,458 mid-size education organizations from 37,399 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 · mid-size

Who funds mid-size education organizations

The funders that back mid-size education organizations are specialists, not generalists: Spark Sf Public Schools gives them 26.7× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

$34.2B

granted

15,458

organizations

37,399

funders

The short version

37,399 funders gave $34.2B to 15,458 mid-size education organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Spark Sf Public Schools, giving 26.7× the national rate to mid-size education organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Gates Foundation, at $1.0B.
The mid-size education organization drawing the most is San Francisco Education Fund, at $142M.

Funders most focused on mid-size 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.

Spark Sf Public Schools26.7×$120M · 100% of its giving Tomchei Torah B'Eretz Yisrael Inc Tomchei Torah B'Eret26×$58M · 100% of its giving Case Alumni Foundation25.9×$52M · 100% of its giving Henry T Nicholas III Foundation25.5×$39M · 100% of its giving San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc25.3×$35M · 100% of its giving Community Services West Inc25×$30M · 100% of its giving Sigma Chi Foundation24.8×$33M · 98% of its giving Governors Rural Education Foundation24.8×$28M · 100% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Gates Foundation$1.0B 2North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc$477M 3Lilly Endowment Inc$281M 4Walton Family Foundation Inc$242M 5City Fund$224M 6Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund$168M 7Carnegie Corporation of New York$134M 8Blue Meridian Partners Inc$131M

Mid-size education organizations that draw the most

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

15,448 other mid-size education organizations$33B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size education nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size education organizations, currently Spark Sf Public Schools, Tomchei Torah B'Eretz Yisrael Inc Tomchei Torah B'Eret, Case Alumni Foundation. 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 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 mid-size education organizations?: $34.2B reached 15,458 mid-size education organizations from 37,399 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 unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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; 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.