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Who funds large public benefit organizations
The funders that back large public benefit organizations are specialists, not generalists: The Pew Memorial Trust gives them 79.8× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Large public benefit institutions draw a deep funder base, 9 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.
The short version
- 6,772 funders gave $9.1B to 765 large public benefit organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is The Pew Memorial Trust, giving 79.8× the national rate to large public benefit organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is The Pew Memorial Trust, at $980M.
- The large public benefit organization drawing the most is The Pew Charitable Trusts, at $1.6B.
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.
Largest funders by dollars
Real grantmakers giving the most to large public benefit organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).
Large public benefit 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 public benefit nonprofit?
- Start with the funders most focused on large public benefit organizations, currently The Pew Memorial Trust, J Howard Pew Freedom Trust, Mabel Pew Myrin Trust. 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 public benefit organizations?
- $9.1B reached 765 large public benefit organizations from 6,772 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.