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

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size health organizations, currently Front Porch Communities and Services, Cumberland Family Medical Center Inc, Nick Simons 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 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 health organizations?

$4.4B reached 3,235 mid-size health organizations from 13,367 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 · Health · mid-size

Who funds mid-size health organizations

The funders that back mid-size health organizations are specialists, not generalists: Front Porch Communities and Services gives them 67.5× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

$4.4B

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3,235

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13,367

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The short version

13,367 funders gave $4.4B to 3,235 mid-size health organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Front Porch Communities and Services, giving 67.5× the national rate to mid-size health organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Front Porch Communities and Services, at $129M.
The mid-size health organization drawing the most is CARING Housing Ministries, at $132M.

Funders most focused on mid-size 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.

Front Porch Communities and Services67.5×$129M · 100% of its giving Cumberland Family Medical Center Inc57.9×$15M · 100% of its giving Nick Simons Foundation57×$18M · 95% of its giving Centro de Salud de la Comunidad De55.7×$12M · 100% of its giving Ronald McDonald House Charities of55.6×$12M · 100% of its giving Boca Grande Health Clinic Fndtn Inc54.2×$11M · 100% of its giving Northeast Georgia Medical Center Inc52.4×$9M · 100% of its giving Baylor College of Medicine52.4×$9M · 100% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Front Porch Communities and Services$129M 2Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation$81M 3Make-A-Wish Foundation of America$80M 4Healthy Start Momcare Network Inc$48M 5The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley$39M 6Gates Foundation$35M 7The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation$32M 8Ronald McDonald House Charities Inc$30M

Mid-size health organizations that draw the most

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

3,225 other mid-size health organizations$4.0B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size health nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size health organizations, currently Front Porch Communities and Services, Cumberland Family Medical Center Inc, Nick Simons 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 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 health organizations?: $4.4B reached 3,235 mid-size health organizations from 13,367 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.