How do I find funders for a large international nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on large international organizations, currently Public Interest Registry, Plan International USA Inc, Mercy Ships 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 large organization here?

Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.

How much grant money goes to large international organizations?

$14.8B reached 402 large international organizations from 13,370 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 · International · large

Who funds large international organizations

The funders that back large international organizations are specialists, not generalists: Public Interest Registry gives them 20.1× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Large international institutions draw a deep funder base, 33 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.

$14.8B

granted

402

organizations

13,370

funders

The short version

13,370 funders gave $14.8B to 402 large international organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Public Interest Registry, giving 20.1× the national rate to large international organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Gates Foundation, at $2.0B.
The large international organization drawing the most is United States Fund for Unicef, at $1.1B.

Funders most focused on large international 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.

Public Interest Registry20.1×$134M · 100% of its giving Plan International USA Inc20.1×$125M · 100% of its giving Mercy Ships Foundation20×$96M · 100% of its giving Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc19.8×$95M · 99% of its giving The Jewish Federations of North America Inc19.5×$429M · 96% of its giving Gavi Alliance18.6×$172M · 92% of its giving EQUIP Leadership Inc18.5×$29M · 99% of its giving Hope International18.4×$31M · 98% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

Real grantmakers giving the most to large international organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).

1Gates Foundation$2.0B 2The Jewish Federations of North America Inc$429M 3Consortium for Elections &$257M 4The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc$252M 5National Endowment for Democracy$200M 6Gavi Alliance$172M 7Open Society Institute$169M 8Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth$159M

Large international organizations that draw the most

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

392 other large international organizations$10B

United States Fund for Unicef$1.1B International Rescue Committee Inc$663M United Israel Appeal Inc$325M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a large international nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on large international organizations, currently Public Interest Registry, Plan International USA Inc, Mercy Ships 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 large organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to large international organizations?: $14.8B reached 402 large international organizations from 13,370 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.