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Funding by cause

Who funds health

$67.8B reached 18,021 health organizations across the 2022 and 2023 filings. The money concentrates: the few largest organizations draw a heavy share of it.

$67.8B
granted
18,021
organizations

The short version

Funders most focused on health

Not the biggest checks, the most committed. Each funder's share of giving to health, against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank. The multiple is how many times the national rate it gives.

Organizations that draw the most

The health organizations receiving the most grant money, sized by dollars. Pick one to see who funds it.

Where the money lands

The states whose organizations draw the most health money.

Largest funders of health

Funders by organization size

Who funds health organizations at each size, with the funders most focused on them. Useful if you are small and the big-institution funders are not a fit.

Questions and answers

What counts as health in this data?
Each organization is grouped by its NTEE code in the IRS Business Master File, the recipient's own cause classification. Health covers every organization the IRS places in that major group, and grants are counted by where the money lands.
What is the difference between the largest and the most committed funders of health?
The largest by dollars are Mass General Brigham Incorporated & and Mayo Clinic, but they spread money across many causes. The most committed concentrate on health: Tarrant Safety Net Support Corporation gives 7.6× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going there.
How can a health nonprofit find funders?
Look beyond the biggest names to the specialists, the funders giving health an outsized share of their budget, and to the states where health money concentrates, led by California. Both are listed on this page.
How recent is this health funding data?
It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

Cause is the organization's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.