How do I find funders for a large food and agriculture nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on large food and agriculture organizations, currently Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc, Feeding Wisconsin Inc, Feeding America. 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 food and agriculture organizations?

$2.9B reached 264 large food and agriculture organizations from 9,851 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.

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Who funds large food and agriculture organizations

The funders that back large food and agriculture organizations are specialists, not generalists: Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc gives them 92.2× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Large food and agriculture institutions draw a deep funder base, 37 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.

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The short version

9,851 funders gave $2.9B to 264 large food and agriculture organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc, giving 92.2× the national rate to large food and agriculture organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Feeding America, at $480M.
The large food and agriculture organization drawing the most is Feeding America, at $198M.

Funders most focused on large food and agriculture 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.

Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc92.2×$24M · 100% of its giving Feeding Wisconsin Inc88.9×$22M · 97% of its giving Feeding America88.1×$480M · 86% of its giving The William H Miner Foundation87.3×$20M · 96% of its giving Federation of Virginia Food Banks86.9×$16M · 100% of its giving Fort Worth Stock Show Syndicate83.7×$14M · 97% of its giving Capital Area Food Bank Foundation81.2×$11M · 100% of its giving Feeding Pennsylvania80.6×$18M · 90% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Feeding America$480M 2Gates Foundation$27M 3Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc$24M 4Feeding Texas$23M 5Feeding Wisconsin Inc$22M 6Wal-Mart Foundation$22M 7The William H Miner Foundation$20M 8Columbus Foundation$18M

Large food and agriculture organizations that draw the most

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

254 other large food and agriculture organizations$2.2B

Feeding America$198M Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$166M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a large food and agriculture nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on large food and agriculture organizations, currently Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc, Feeding Wisconsin Inc, Feeding America. 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 food and agriculture organizations?: $2.9B reached 264 large food and agriculture organizations from 9,851 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.