Who funds grassroots health organizations
The funders that back grassroots health organizations are specialists, not generalists: Methodist Hospital Group gives them 67× the national rate, with 96% of its grants going here. These are the small organizations the big-institution funders usually miss, so the funders that show up here are the ones worth a small health nonprofit's time.
The short version
- 37,865 funders gave $9.8B to 34,662 grassroots health organizations (grassroots (under $1M)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is Methodist Hospital Group, giving 67× the national rate to grassroots health organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is Methodist Hospitals of Dallas, at $209M.
- The grassroots health organization drawing the most is University of Michigan, at $629M.
Funders most focused on grassroots health 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 grassroots health organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).
Grassroots health 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 grassroots health nonprofit?
- Start with the funders most focused on grassroots health organizations, currently Methodist Hospital Group, Butler Healthcare Providers, Samuel & Jean Frankel Foundation. 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 grassroots organization here?
- Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: grassroots (under $1M). 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 grassroots health organizations?
- $9.8B reached 34,662 grassroots health organizations from 37,865 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.