New York · Nonprofit
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 816 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,637,436 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($57,683,576). 435 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 816
- Grants received
- $174M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc does
Mission
Everytown for gun safety support fund seeks to improve our understanding of the causes of gun violence and help to reduce it by conducting groundbreaking original research, developing evidence-based policies, communicating this knowledge to the american public, and advancing gun safety and gun violence prevention in communities and the courts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, everytown law, the nation's largest and most experienced team of litigators dedicated to combating gun violence in the courts, helped lead the way in advancing gun safety. Not only did everytown law celebrate the united state supreme court upholding the longstanding federal law that prohibits abusers subject to protective orders from possessing guns in united states v. Rahimi, but saw a string of wins across the country. In a major win for gun safety, polymer80, the nation's largest producer of ghost gun kits and component parts, shuttered in 2024, following a years-long effort by everytown and everytown law to hold the ghost gun industry accountable for its illegal and life-endangering conduct. Everytown law didn't stop there, filing or joining seven new lawsuits this year, on behalf of gun violence survivors and states and cities nationwide, seeking to hold members of the gun industry accountable for unlawful and reckless conduct contributing to gun violence across the country. Additionally, in 2024, the everytown community safety fund awarded over $2 million in grants to 34 community-based violence intervention organizations to help sustain critical gun violence…
$34,669,257 spentof which $6,821,157 as grants$52,977 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $34,669,257.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $24M to $48M (+102%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
96% of EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Eric Tirschwell
Everytown law executive director & chief litigatio
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 87 funders to 323 funders, grant income rose $4.5M → $25M.
87 of 816 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 816 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 24% · 2019 26% · 2020 43% · 2021 38% · 2022 37% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $60M that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 46 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113M arriving through sponsors registered in 29 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC?
- EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 816 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,637,436 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($57,683,576). 435 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 816 organizations giving $173,637,436 in grants to EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC, 435 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $57,683,576 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 816 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing