How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Washington, D.C.?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Washington, D.C., currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, New Venture Fund, The Ford Foundation. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Washington, D.C. from out of state.

How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Washington, D.C.?

$5.6B reached 840 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C., from 4,892 funders. 32% came from funders also based in Washington, D.C..

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 · Washington, D.C. · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in Washington, D.C.

Civil rights and advocacy funding in Washington, D.C. is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Sixteen Thirty Fund leads, and the money reaches 840 groups. Washington, D.C.'s civil rights and advocacy organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 6 funders each.

$5.6B

granted

840

organizations

32%

from in-state

The short version

4,892 funders gave $5.6B to 840 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C. across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
32% of that came from funders also based in Washington, D.C.; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in Washington, D.C. is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $406M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is Sixteen Thirty Fund, at $307M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in Washington, D.C.

The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C., in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$406M 2New Venture Fund$389M 3The Ford Foundation$223M 4Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy$201M 5Hopewell Fund$184M 6Our American Future Foundation$165M 7National Endowment for Democracy$158M 8Freedom Together Foundation$148M 9Sixteen Thirty Fund$124M 10National Philanthropic Trust$101M

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C. that draw the most

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

830 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$3.7B

Sixteen Thirty Fund$307M Center for American Progress$196M Our American Future Foundation$193M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in Washington, D.C.

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Start with the funders already active in Washington, D.C.
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in Washington, D.C. are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, New Venture Fund, The Ford Foundation. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the civil rights and advocacy 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
68% of civil rights and advocacy money in Washington, D.C. comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Washington, D.C..

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Washington, D.C.?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Washington, D.C., currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, New Venture Fund, The Ford Foundation. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Washington, D.C. from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in Washington, D.C.?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C., $406M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Washington, D.C.?: $5.6B reached 840 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C., from 4,892 funders. 32% came from funders also based in Washington, D.C..
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 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

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

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; 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.