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Who funds grassroots human services organizations
The funders that back grassroots human services organizations are specialists, not generalists: Community Health Care gives them 104.8× the national rate, with 100% 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 human services nonprofit's time.
The short version
- 34,415 funders gave $8.0B to 34,014 grassroots human services organizations (grassroots (under $1M)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is Community Health Care, giving 104.8× the national rate to grassroots human services organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is The Signatry Charitable Trust, at $132M.
- The grassroots human services organization drawing the most is Family Childcare & Center Enrichment Foundation Inc, at $216M.
Funders most focused on grassroots human services 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 human services organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).
Grassroots human services 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 human services nonprofit?
- Start with the funders most focused on grassroots human services organizations, currently Community Health Care, Gateway Terrace Inc, Pines of Sarasota Healthcare LLC. 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 human services organizations?
- $8.0B reached 34,014 grassroots human services organizations from 34,415 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.