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

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size medical research organizations, currently Providence Initiatives Foundation, Cds Monarch Inc, The Tu 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 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 medical research organizations?

$577M reached 384 mid-size medical research organizations from 3,197 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 · Medical research · mid-size

Who funds mid-size medical research organizations

The funders that back mid-size medical research organizations are specialists, not generalists: Providence Initiatives Foundation gives them 377.3× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

$577M

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384

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3,197

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The short version

3,197 funders gave $577M to 384 mid-size medical research organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Providence Initiatives Foundation, giving 377.3× the national rate to mid-size medical research organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc, at $32M.
The mid-size medical research organization drawing the most is Foundation Fighting Blindness, at $32M.

Funders most focused on mid-size medical research 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.

Providence Initiatives Foundation377.3×$7M · 100% of its giving Cds Monarch Inc360.1×$7M · 97% of its giving The Tu Foundation322×$9M · 77% of its giving Hoffman Institute Foundation317.5×$5M · 100% of its giving The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc312.4×$32M · 63% of its giving GO2 For Lung Cancer271.7×$4M · 82% of its giving Cerebral Palsy Research Endowment265.8×$3M · 100% of its giving Wwww Foundation259.7×$5M · 71% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$32M 2Gates Foundation$22M 3Children's Medical Center Foundation$13M 4St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$11M 5Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation$10M 6The Tu Foundation$9M 7Providence Initiatives Foundation$7M 8Cds Monarch Inc$7M

Mid-size medical research organizations that draw the most

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

374 other mid-size medical research organizations$444M

Foundation Fighting Blindness$32M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size medical research nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size medical research organizations, currently Providence Initiatives Foundation, Cds Monarch Inc, The Tu 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 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 medical research organizations?: $577M reached 384 mid-size medical research organizations from 3,197 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.