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

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size housing organizations, currently Mary E Bivins Trust, Aof Miami Dade Affordable Housing Corp, Broadway Towers Inc. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.

How much grant money goes to mid-size housing organizations?

$10.2B reached 5,893 mid-size housing organizations from 21,429 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: Mary E Bivins Trust gives them 66.7× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

$10.2B

granted

5,893

organizations

21,429

funders

The short version

21,429 funders gave $10.2B to 5,893 mid-size housing organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Mary E Bivins Trust, giving 66.7× the national rate to mid-size housing organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, at $448M.
The mid-size housing organization drawing the most is Farmworker Housing Development Corporation, at $80M.

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.

Mary E Bivins Trust66.7×$46M · 100% of its giving Aof Miami Dade Affordable Housing Corp65.5×$35M · 100% of its giving Broadway Towers Inc61×$18M · 100% of its giving Bridge Housing Corporation59.7×$24M · 94% of its giving Helping the Homeless Inc57.1×$19M · 92% of its giving Little Tokyo Towers Inc56.6×$12M · 99% of its giving Munger Charitable Trust Number Three55.8×$11M · 99% of its giving Adolph Thomas Charitable Trust55.5×$11M · 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$448M 2Habitat for Humanity International Inc$297M 3Enterprise Community Partners Inc$69M 4Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc$56M 5THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund$55M 6Neighborhood Partnerships Inc$47M 7Mary E Bivins Trust$46M 8United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc$44M

Mid-size housing organizations that draw the most

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

5,883 other mid-size housing organizations$9.8B

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 Mary E Bivins Trust, Aof Miami Dade Affordable Housing Corp, Broadway Towers 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 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 mid-size housing organizations?: $10.2B reached 5,893 mid-size housing organizations from 21,429 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 unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

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.