How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Pennsylvania?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Pennsylvania, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Strategic Victory Fund, Tides 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 Pennsylvania from out of state.

How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Pennsylvania?

$153M reached 82 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Pennsylvania, from 478 funders. 23% came from funders also based in Pennsylvania.

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 · Pennsylvania · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in Pennsylvania

Most of it comes from outside Pennsylvania: only 23% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here. Pennsylvania's civil rights and advocacy organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 6 funders each.

$153M

granted

organizations

23%

from in-state

The short version

478 funders gave $153M to 82 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Pennsylvania across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
23% of that came from funders also based in Pennsylvania; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in Pennsylvania is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $30M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is Foundation for Individual Rights And, at $48M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in Pennsylvania

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$30M 2Strategic Victory Fund$8M 3Tides Foundation$7M 4Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$7M 5The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation$5M 6Michigan Civic Education Fund$4M 7The Heinz Endowments$4M 8The William Penn Foundation$3M 9Jewish Communal Fund$3M 10Open Society Action Fund Inc$3M

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in Pennsylvania that draw the most

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

Foundation for Individual Rights And$48M

72 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$35M

Pennsylvania Voice$12M Pa Alliance Action$12M Pa Alliance Foundation$10M New Voices Pittsburgh Inc$8M Pennsylvania United$7M Organize Pennsylvania$6M American Civil Liberties Foundation$4M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in Pennsylvania

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Start with the funders already active in Pennsylvania
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in Pennsylvania are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Strategic Victory Fund, Tides 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
77% of civil rights and advocacy money in Pennsylvania comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Pennsylvania.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Pennsylvania?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Pennsylvania, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Strategic Victory Fund, Tides 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 Pennsylvania from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in Pennsylvania?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Pennsylvania, $30M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Pennsylvania?: $153M reached 82 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Pennsylvania, from 478 funders. 23% came from funders also based in Pennsylvania.
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.