How do I find funders for a large environment nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on large environment organizations, currently Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return, The Uli Foundation, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture. 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 environment organizations?

$8.6B reached 284 large environment organizations from 8,206 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 · Environment · large

Who funds large environment organizations

The funders that back large environment organizations are specialists, not generalists: Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return gives them 34.6× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Large environment institutions draw a deep funder base, 29 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.

$8.6B

granted

284

organizations

8,206

funders

The short version

8,206 funders gave $8.6B to 284 large environment organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return, giving 34.6× the national rate to large environment organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc, at $247M.
The large environment organization drawing the most is New Venture Fund, at $1.4B.

Funders most focused on large environment 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.

Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return34.6×$113M · 100% of its giving The Uli Foundation32.3×$30M · 100% of its giving Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture31.1×$21M · 100% of its giving Holden Arboretum Trust29.7×$15M · 100% of its giving Teach a Man to Fish Foundation29.4×$18M · 96% of its giving Sea Change Foundation27.5×$26M · 85% of its giving The Scenic Hudson Land Trust Inc26.6×$11M · 94% of its giving The Blackrock Charitable Foundation26.1×$40M · 78% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc$247M 2Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation$218M 3The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation$179M 4Waverley Street Foundation$169M 5Freedom Together Foundation$147M 6John D and Catherine T Macarthur$141M 7Climate Imperative Foundation$136M 8Sergey Brin Family Foundation$129M

Large environment organizations that draw the most

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

274 other large environment organizations$4.7B

New Venture Fund$1.4B Climate Imperative Foundation$361M Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$203M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a large environment nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on large environment organizations, currently Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return, The Uli Foundation, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture. 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 environment organizations?: $8.6B reached 284 large environment organizations from 8,206 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.