Charities that give grants to other nonprofits

Most grant lists only cover private foundations. These 7,211 organizations are something else: charities that raise money and then regrant it -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, donor-advised fund sponsors. They report their grants on Form 990 Schedule I, and between them they moved more money than the private foundations did.

7,211grantmaker profiles
1,530,174funding relationships
$476.5Bin giving traced

Why these funders are worth more of your time than a family foundation

We measured how much of a funder's grantee list survives from one year to the next, across every grantmaker here: the median keeps 57% of one year's grantees the following year, over 19,926 year-to-year transitions. The same measurement on private foundations gives 67%.

That difference is the point. A private foundation's list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone. These organizations turn over roughly twice as much of their list every year -- they run cycles, they read applications, and the seat you are asking for may genuinely be open.

The honest caveat, which works against us: Schedule I only requires listing grants over $5,000, so a grantee whose award dropped to $4,000 reads as dropped entirely. That biases the turnover figure upward, and some part of the gap with private foundations is that reporting artifact rather than real behaviour.

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Community foundations and federated funds are the most geographically bounded funders there are. Start where you are.

Alabama57 grantmakersAlaska31 grantmakersArizona108 grantmakersArkansas24 grantmakersCalifornia788 grantmakersColorado172 grantmakersConnecticut95 grantmakersDelaware19 grantmakersDistrict of Columbia459 grantmakersFlorida318 grantmakersGeorgia152 grantmakersGuam1 grantmakerHawaii35 grantmakersIdaho17 grantmakersIllinois304 grantmakersIndiana200 grantmakersIowa74 grantmakersKansas68 grantmakersKentucky69 grantmakersLouisiana72 grantmakersMaine39 grantmakersMaryland177 grantmakersMassachusetts234 grantmakersMichigan203 grantmakersMinnesota169 grantmakersMississippi22 grantmakersMissouri135 grantmakersMontana39 grantmakersNebraska57 grantmakersNevada29 grantmakersNew Hampshire30 grantmakersNew Jersey104 grantmakersNew Mexico25 grantmakersNew York563 grantmakersNorth Carolina228 grantmakersNorth Dakota25 grantmakersOhio308 grantmakersOklahoma48 grantmakersOregon112 grantmakersPennsylvania274 grantmakersPuerto Rico5 grantmakersRhode Island23 grantmakersSouth Carolina76 grantmakersSouth Dakota22 grantmakersTennessee115 grantmakersTexas333 grantmakersUtah41 grantmakersVermont32 grantmakersVirginia260 grantmakersWashington208 grantmakersWest Virginia31 grantmakersWisconsin152 grantmakersWyoming19 grantmakersthe U.S. Virgin Islands1 grantmakerOther and international9 grantmakers

The widest grantee lists here

By number of organizations funded. Note that the very largest are donor-advised fund sponsors and workplace-giving platforms, where the grants are chosen by thousands of individual account holders rather than by a committee -- there is usually nothing to apply to. Each page says so where it applies.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizations
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundBoston, MA$19,600113,730
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncSan Francisco, CA$16,50081,400
American Online Giving Foundation IncNewark, DE$12,60471,161
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramSoutheastern, PA$16,00038,456
The Blackbaud Giving FundCharleston Sc, SC$11,04132,011
National Philanthropic TrustJenkintown, PA$21,50029,999
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncAlpharetta, GA$22,30028,283
American Endowment FoundationHudson, OH$15,00025,976
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIndianapolis, IN$12,00025,701
Paypal Charitable Giving FundWashington, DC$10,82924,695
Network for GoodWashington, DC$12,60320,724
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaAlexandria, VA$10,85016,367
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNew York, NY$25,00011,508
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundSt Petersburg, FL$12,50011,092
The US Charitable Gift TrustBoston, MA$12,3498,615
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, IL$25,9407,265
Jewish Communal FundNew York, NY$23,1937,258
Silicon Valley Community FoundationMountain View, CA$51,6257,251
The Ayco Charitable FoundationCohoes, NY$15,1007,231
Ohio Child Care Resource and ReferralColumbus, OH$33,9427,140
Mightycause Charitable FoundationMarianna, FL$11,3575,622
T Rowe Price Program for CharitableBaltimore, MD$12,0005,423
Women's Business Development CenterChicago, IL$10,0005,175
GOOD360Alexandria, VA$21,6915,166
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CA$50,0005,081
ImpactassetsincBethesda, MD$22,5004,874
Local Initiatives Support CorporationNew York, NY$25,0004,567
Servant FoundationOverland Park, KS$18,9504,260
The Ojc FundBrooklyn, NY$28,0294,213
Thrivent Charitable Impact & InvestingAppleton, WI$11,3393,885
Greater Houston Community FoundationHouston, TX$20,3143,805
California Community FoundationLos Angeles, CA$35,0003,753
Communities Foundation of Texas IncDallas, TX$18,6703,715
National Council for CommunityNew York, NY$10,0003,712
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNew York, NY$25,0003,611
The Oregon Community FoundationPortland, OR$27,5003,463
Tulsa Community FoundationTulsa, OK$15,0003,352
Greater HorizonsKansas City, MO$15,0003,279
Boston Foundation IncBoston, MA$24,0003,169
Columbus FoundationColumbus, OH$21,0003,142
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.

Looking for private foundations?

Family and independent foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks them outright whether they accept unsolicited requests. We profile the ones that said yes separately: foundations that accept grant applications.

An organization is profiled here when it reported grants on Form 990 Schedule I to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later. Private foundations are covered separately, under foundations that accept applications.