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Who funds large international organizations
The funders that back large international organizations are specialists, not generalists: Redhill Foundation - Rothberg Family Charity Trust gives them 19.3× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Large international institutions draw a deep funder base, 20 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.
The short version
- 26,101 funders gave $36.4B to 1,275 large international organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is Redhill Foundation - Rothberg Family Charity Trust, giving 19.3× the national rate to large international organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is Gates Foundation, at $6.1B.
- The large international organization drawing the most is United States Fund for Unicef, at $2.3B.
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.
Largest funders by dollars
Real grantmakers giving the most to large international organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).
Large international 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 large international nonprofit?
- Start with the funders most focused on large international organizations, currently Redhill Foundation - Rothberg Family Charity Trust, Thomas Lyle Williams Trust Bessemer Trust Company Na, Corabelle Lumps 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 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 large international organizations?
- $36.4B reached 1,275 large international organizations from 26,101 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.