How do I find funders for a mid-size public benefit nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size public benefit organizations, currently Medal Of Honor Foundation Inc, Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Center for Technology and Civic Life. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.

How much grant money goes to mid-size public benefit organizations?

$6.4B reached 2,243 mid-size public benefit organizations from 8,564 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 · mid-size

Who funds mid-size public benefit organizations

The funders that back mid-size public benefit organizations are specialists, not generalists: Medal Of Honor Foundation Inc gives them 120.8× the national rate, with 99% of its grants going here.

$6.4B

granted

2,243

organizations

8,564

funders

The short version

8,564 funders gave $6.4B to 2,243 mid-size public benefit organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Medal Of Honor Foundation Inc, giving 120.8× the national rate to mid-size public benefit organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Donors Trust Inc, at $144M.
The mid-size public benefit organization drawing the most is Democracy Forward Foundation, at $88M.

Funders most focused on mid-size 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.

Medal Of Honor Foundation Inc120.8×$15M · 99% of its giving Conference of State Bank Supervisors120.6×$14M · 100% of its giving Center for Technology and Civic Life109×$13M · 90% of its giving Green Umbrella106.7×$9M · 96% of its giving North Main Street Fund103.2×$17M · 81% of its giving The Larry Ellison Foundation99×$25M · 74% of its giving RepresentUs Education Fund98.7×$7M · 96% of its giving Population Connection96.3×$9M · 86% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Donors Trust Inc$144M 2Gates Foundation$85M 3Voter Registration Project$80M 4NEO Philanthropy Inc$66M 5Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc$59M 6The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation$57M 7Democracy Fund Inc$54M 8Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc$45M

Mid-size public benefit organizations that draw the most

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

2,233 other mid-size public benefit organizations$5.8B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size public benefit nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size public benefit organizations, currently Medal Of Honor Foundation Inc, Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Center for Technology and Civic Life. 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 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 mid-size public benefit organizations?: $6.4B reached 2,243 mid-size public benefit organizations from 8,564 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 unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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; 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.