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

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size environment organizations, currently Marine Stewardship Council, West Michigan Horticultural Society Inc, Kohler Foundation 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 environment organizations?

$4.1B reached 1,806 mid-size environment organizations from 10,898 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 · mid-size

Who funds mid-size environment organizations

The funders that back mid-size environment organizations are specialists, not generalists: Marine Stewardship Council gives them 65.5× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

$4.1B

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1,806

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10,898

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The short version

10,898 funders gave $4.1B to 1,806 mid-size environment organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Marine Stewardship Council, giving 65.5× the national rate to mid-size environment organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, at $136M.
The mid-size environment organization drawing the most is Kohler Trust for Clean Water, at $54M.

Funders most focused on mid-size 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.

Marine Stewardship Council65.5×$21M · 100% of its giving West Michigan Horticultural Society Inc63.6×$17M · 100% of its giving Kohler Foundation Inc62.1×$55M · 87% of its giving Clean and Prosperous America57×$9M · 100% of its giving Balmer Foundation55.1×$9M · 97% of its giving The Sand County Foundation Inc51.3×$7M · 98% of its giving Denver Botanic Gardens Inc48.3×$5M · 100% of its giving Samuel P Pardoe Foundation48.1×$6M · 97% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1National Fish and Wildlife Foundation$136M 2United States Energy Foundation$76M 3Foundation for the Carolinas$68M 4The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham$68M 5Freedom Together Foundation$60M 6Kohler Foundation Inc$55M 7Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc$36M 8Fidelity Foundation$36M

Mid-size environment organizations that draw the most

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

1,796 other mid-size environment organizations$3.8B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size environment nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size environment organizations, currently Marine Stewardship Council, West Michigan Horticultural Society Inc, Kohler Foundation 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 environment organizations?: $4.1B reached 1,806 mid-size environment organizations from 10,898 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.