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

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size housing organizations, currently The Actors' Fund of America, Mary E Bivins Trust, Cathedral Plaza 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 housing organizations?

$2.6B reached 2,107 mid-size housing organizations from 8,840 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 · Housing · mid-size

Who funds mid-size housing organizations

The funders that back mid-size housing organizations are specialists, not generalists: The Actors' Fund of America gives them 98.6× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

$2.6B

granted

2,107

organizations

8,840

funders

The short version

8,840 funders gave $2.6B to 2,107 mid-size housing organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is The Actors' Fund of America, giving 98.6× the national rate to mid-size housing organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, at $110M.
The mid-size housing organization drawing the most is Colorado Affordable Catholic, at $35M.

Funders most focused on mid-size housing 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.

The Actors' Fund of America98.6×$18M · 100% of its giving Mary E Bivins Trust96.2×$15M · 100% of its giving Cathedral Plaza Inc92×$12M · 100% of its giving Lower Roxbury Community Corporation91.9×$12M · 100% of its giving Clarkstown Middlewood Housing91.5×$11M · 100% of its giving Acts Community Development Corporation90.6×$11M · 100% of its giving Marian Plaza Inc86×$9M · 100% of its giving Pahc Apartments Inc85.6×$9M · 100% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$110M 2Habitat for Humanity International Inc$51M 3The McKnight Foundation$23M 4Local Initiatives Support Corporation$19M 5The Actors' Fund of America$18M 6Enterprise Community Partners Inc$16M 7George Kaiser Family Foundation$15M 8Mary E Bivins Trust$15M

Mid-size housing organizations that draw the most

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

2,097 other mid-size housing organizations$2.5B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size housing nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size housing organizations, currently The Actors' Fund of America, Mary E Bivins Trust, Cathedral Plaza 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 housing organizations?: $2.6B reached 2,107 mid-size housing organizations from 8,840 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.