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 Center for Technology and Civic Life, Green Umbrella, North Main Street Fund. 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?

$6.1B reached 2,139 mid-size public benefit organizations from 8,633 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: Center for Technology and Civic Life gives them 88.8× the national rate, with 90% of its grants going here.

$6.1B

granted

2,139

organizations

8,633

funders

The short version

8,633 funders gave $6.1B to 2,139 mid-size public benefit organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Center for Technology and Civic Life, giving 88.8× the national rate to mid-size public benefit organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Donors Trust Inc, at $143M.
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.

Center for Technology and Civic Life88.8×$13M · 90% of its giving Green Umbrella87×$9M · 96% of its giving North Main Street Fund84.1×$17M · 81% of its giving The Voter Participation Center81×$13M · 81% of its giving PA Alliance Foundation77.7×$15M · 75% of its giving Counteract Foundation74.8×$5M · 100% of its giving Thomas D Klingenstein Fund71.1×$23M · 65% of its giving Aicher Family Foundation Inc69×$5M · 92% 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$143M 2Voter Registration Project$80M 3Gates Foundation$76M 4NEO Philanthropy Inc$65M 5Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc$59M 6The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation$54M 7Democracy Fund Inc$54M 8Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc$44M

Mid-size public benefit organizations that draw the most

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

2,129 other mid-size public benefit organizations$5.4B

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 Center for Technology and Civic Life, Green Umbrella, North Main Street Fund. 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?: $6.1B reached 2,139 mid-size public benefit organizations from 8,633 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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

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.