Causes · Employment · mid-size
Who funds mid-size employment organizations
The funders that back mid-size employment organizations are specialists, not generalists: Goodwill Industries of Arkansas Inc gives them 182.1× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.
The short version
- 8,695 funders gave $5.0B to 3,776 mid-size employment organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is Goodwill Industries of Arkansas Inc, giving 182.1× the national rate to mid-size employment organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, at $114M.
- The mid-size employment organization drawing the most is Opportunitywork Inc, at $98M.
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.
Largest funders by dollars
Real grantmakers giving the most to mid-size employment organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).
Mid-size employment organizations that draw the most
Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.
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 Goodwill Industries of Arkansas Inc, National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Apprentice & Training Fund, Homeboy Industries. 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 employment organizations?
- $5.0B reached 3,776 mid-size employment organizations from 8,695 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
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.