How do I find funders for a disaster and safety nonprofit in California?

Start with the funders already giving to disaster and safety in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Gofundmeorg. Then look at who funds the disaster and safety organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.

Who is the largest disaster and safety funder in California?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to disaster and safety organizations in California, $47M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to disaster and safety in California?

$309M reached 318 disaster and safety organizations in California, from 1,015 funders. 37% came from funders also based in California.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · California · Disaster and safety

Who funds disaster and safety in California

$309M reached 318 disaster and safety organizations in California, from 1,015 funders, with no single one dominating.

$309M

granted

318

organizations

37%

from in-state

The short version

1,015 funders gave $309M to 318 disaster and safety organizations in California across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
37% of that came from funders also based in California; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of disaster and safety in California is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $47M.
The disaster and safety organization drawing the most is Airbnborg Inc, at $100M.

Largest funders of disaster and safety in California

The funders giving the most to disaster and safety organizations in California, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$47M 2Breakthrough Prize Foundation$20M 3Gofundmeorg$19M 4American Online Giving Foundation Inc$16M 5Silicon Valley Community Foundation$11M 6California Fire Safe Council Inc$11M 7National Philanthropic Trust$10M 8Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$10M 9Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund$9M 10American Endowment Foundation$8M

Disaster and safety organizations in California that draw the most

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

Airbnborg Inc$100M Team Rubicon Inc$64M

308 other disaster and safety organizations$59M

US Digital Response$21M

How to find disaster and safety funders in California

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Start with the funders already active in California
The funders giving the most to disaster and safety in California are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Gofundmeorg. A funder already writing disaster and safety checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the disaster and safety organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
63% of disaster and safety money in California comes from funders elsewhere, so national disaster and safety funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in California.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a disaster and safety nonprofit in California?: Start with the funders already giving to disaster and safety in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Gofundmeorg. Then look at who funds the disaster and safety organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.
Who is the largest disaster and safety funder in California?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to disaster and safety organizations in California, $47M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to disaster and safety in California?: $309M reached 318 disaster and safety organizations in California, from 1,015 funders. 37% came from funders also based in California.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. 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

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.