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

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size human services organizations, currently Friends of the Orphans, Valle del Sol Inc, Maine Coalition to End Domestic. 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 human services organizations?

$10.5B reached 8,772 mid-size human services organizations from 27,317 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 · Human services · mid-size

Who funds mid-size human services organizations

The funders that back mid-size human services organizations are specialists, not generalists: Friends of the Orphans gives them 26.9× the national rate, with 98% of its grants going here.

$10.5B

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8,772

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27,317

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The short version

27,317 funders gave $10.5B to 8,772 mid-size human services organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Friends of the Orphans, giving 26.9× the national rate to mid-size human services organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is US Committee for Refugees And, at $59M.
The mid-size human services organization drawing the most is Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos International, at $56M.

Funders most focused on mid-size 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.

Friends of the Orphans26.9×$56M · 98% of its giving Valle del Sol Inc24.4×$16M · 100% of its giving Maine Coalition to End Domestic24×$14M · 100% of its giving The Hap Foundation Inc22.7×$10M · 100% of its giving Springbrook Ny Inc22.5×$10M · 100% of its giving The Ability Center of Greater Toledo22.5×$10M · 100% of its giving Sojourner Foundation22.3×$10M · 100% of its giving Miami County YMCA22.1×$9M · 100% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1US Committee for Refugees And$59M 2Friends of the Orphans$56M 3WK Kellogg Foundation$45M 4Pennsylvania Coalition Against$42M 5Lilly Endowment Inc$41M 6Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc$38M 7Hias Inc$37M 8The California Endowment$37M

Mid-size human services organizations that draw the most

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

8,762 other mid-size human services organizations$10B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size human services nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size human services organizations, currently Friends of the Orphans, Valle del Sol Inc, Maine Coalition to End Domestic. 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 human services organizations?: $10.5B reached 8,772 mid-size human services organizations from 27,317 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.