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

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size employment organizations, currently Homeboy Industries, Tri-County Workforce Investment, First Step Staffing 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 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 employment organizations?

$1.0B reached 798 mid-size employment organizations from 3,561 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 · Employment · mid-size

Who funds mid-size employment organizations

The funders that back mid-size employment organizations are specialists, not generalists: Homeboy Industries gives them 254.9× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

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The short version

3,561 funders gave $1.0B to 798 mid-size employment organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Homeboy Industries, giving 254.9× the national rate to mid-size employment organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is The James Irvine Foundation, at $16M.
The mid-size employment organization drawing the most is The Groundtruth Project Inc, at $19M.

Funders most focused on mid-size employment 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.

Homeboy Industries254.9×$16M · 100% of its giving Tri-County Workforce Investment226×$9M · 100% of its giving First Step Staffing Inc222.6×$8M · 100% of its giving Nevada Battle Born Growth Escalator Inc218.7×$8M · 100% of its giving Central Workforce Development213.2×$7M · 100% of its giving Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board206×$11M · 83% of its giving Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc203×$6M · 100% of its giving Throckmorton187×$5M · 100% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1The James Irvine Foundation$16M 2Homeboy Industries$16M 3Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board$11M 4Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership$9M 5Worksystems Inc$9M 6Tri-County Workforce Investment$9M 7First Step Staffing Inc$8M 8Nevada Battle Born Growth Escalator Inc$8M

Mid-size employment organizations that draw the most

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

788 other mid-size employment organizations$857M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size employment nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size employment organizations, currently Homeboy Industries, Tri-County Workforce Investment, First Step Staffing 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 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 employment organizations?: $1.0B reached 798 mid-size employment organizations from 3,561 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.