How do I find funders for a large public benefit nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on large public benefit organizations, currently USO Foundation, The Future Now Institute, The Hook Family 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 public benefit organizations?

$2.1B reached 124 large public benefit organizations from 3,372 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 · Public benefit · large

Who funds large public benefit organizations

The funders that back large public benefit organizations are specialists, not generalists: USO Foundation gives them 130.7× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Large public benefit institutions draw a deep funder base, 27 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.

$2.1B

granted

124

organizations

3,372

funders

The short version

3,372 funders gave $2.1B to 124 large public benefit organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is USO Foundation, giving 130.7× the national rate to large public benefit organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Consortium for Elections &, at $99M.
The large public benefit organization drawing the most is NEO Philanthropy Inc, at $280M.

Funders most focused on large public benefit 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.

USO Foundation130.7×$30M · 100% of its giving The Future Now Institute94×$6M · 99% of its giving The Hook Family Foundation75×$5M · 77% of its giving New York Ehealth Collaborative Inc73.1×$88M · 52% of its giving Cynchealth Foundation Inc72.6×$3M · 97% of its giving Musk Foundation61.8×$58M · 44% of its giving Peter H Kamin Family Foundation57×$2M · 95% of its giving Association of the United States Army52.5×$2M · 79% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Consortium for Elections &$99M 2New York Ehealth Collaborative Inc$88M 3Musk Foundation$58M 4Gates Foundation$40M 5Freedom Together Foundation$39M 6Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc$37M 7The Ford Foundation$34M 8USO Foundation$30M

Large public benefit organizations that draw the most

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

114 other large public benefit organizations$1.1B

NEO Philanthropy Inc$280M X Prize Foundation Inc$70M Capital Impact Partners$66M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a large public benefit nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on large public benefit organizations, currently USO Foundation, The Future Now Institute, The Hook Family 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 public benefit organizations?: $2.1B reached 124 large public benefit organizations from 3,372 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.