Charities that give grants to other nonprofits

Most grant lists only cover private foundations. These 7,731 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.

7,731grantmaker profiles
1,680,036funding relationships
$567.0Bin giving traced

How much their grantee lists change

We measured how much of a funder's grantee list survives from one year to the next, across every grantmaker here: the median keeps 56% of one year's grantees the following year, over 24,482 year-to-year transitions. The same measurement on private foundations gives 67%.

So about 44% of a grantmaking charity's grantees are not funded again the next year, against about 33% of a private foundation's. That is turnover among organizations these funders already support. It does not show that any one of them reads unsolicited applications -- Schedule I never asks -- and part of the gap is a reporting artifact.

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.

Alabama60 grantmakersAlaska32 grantmakersArizona136 grantmakersArkansas26 grantmakersCalifornia832 grantmakersColorado187 grantmakersConnecticut100 grantmakersDelaware22 grantmakersDistrict of Columbia481 grantmakersFlorida344 grantmakersGeorgia165 grantmakersGuam1 grantmakerHawaii37 grantmakersIdaho18 grantmakersIllinois336 grantmakersIndiana214 grantmakersIowa79 grantmakersKansas72 grantmakersKentucky73 grantmakersLouisiana75 grantmakersMaine45 grantmakersMaryland192 grantmakersMassachusetts252 grantmakersMichigan215 grantmakersMinnesota177 grantmakersMississippi24 grantmakersMissouri141 grantmakersMontana42 grantmakersNebraska60 grantmakersNevada33 grantmakersNew Hampshire36 grantmakersNew Jersey113 grantmakersNew Mexico31 grantmakersNew York600 grantmakersNorth Carolina250 grantmakersNorth Dakota27 grantmakersOhio319 grantmakersOklahoma53 grantmakersOregon122 grantmakersPennsylvania292 grantmakersPuerto Rico7 grantmakersRhode Island23 grantmakersSouth Carolina79 grantmakersSouth Dakota23 grantmakersTennessee125 grantmakersTexas359 grantmakersUtah43 grantmakersVermont34 grantmakersVirginia285 grantmakersWashington219 grantmakersWest Virginia33 grantmakersWisconsin158 grantmakersWyoming20 grantmakersthe U.S. Virgin Islands1 grantmakerOther and international8 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$19,900131,252
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncLone Tree, CO$17,09096,048
American Online Giving Foundation IncNewark, DE$12,70081,665
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramSoutheastern, PA$16,70044,905
National Philanthropic TrustJenkintown, PA$22,10036,762
The Blackbaud Giving FundCharleston Sc, SC$11,04132,011
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
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaAlexandria, VA$11,00022,510
Network for GoodWashington, DC$12,60320,724
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundSt Petersburg, FL$12,00015,122
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNew York, NY$25,00011,508
The US Charitable Gift TrustBoston, MA$12,3498,615
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, IL$26,0008,485
Jewish Communal FundNew York, NY$23,5988,141
The Ayco Charitable FoundationCohoes, NY$15,1007,611
Silicon Valley Community FoundationMountain View, CA$51,6257,251
Ohio Child Care Resource and ReferralColumbus, OH$33,9427,140
T Rowe Price Program for CharitableBaltimore, MD$12,1516,204
Mightycause Charitable FoundationMarianna, FL$11,3575,622
Women's Business Development CenterChicago, IL$10,0005,215
GOOD360Alexandria, VA$21,6915,166
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CA$50,0005,081
ImpactassetsincBethesda, MD$22,5004,874
The Ojc FundBrooklyn, NY$28,8424,844
Servant FoundationOverland Park, KS$18,0004,707
Local Initiatives Support CorporationNew York, NY$25,0004,567
California Community FoundationLos Angeles, CA$36,7504,328
Communities Foundation of Texas IncDallas, TX$18,6714,109
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNew York, NY$25,0004,068
Thrivent Charitable Impact & InvestingAppleton, WI$11,3393,885
Greater Houston Community FoundationHouston, TX$20,3143,805
National Council for CommunityNew York, NY$10,0003,712
Boston Foundation IncBoston, MA$25,0003,697
The Oregon Community FoundationPortland, OR$27,5003,463
Tulsa Community FoundationTulsa, OK$15,0003,352
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CA$27,0003,298
Greater HorizonsKansas City, MO$15,0003,279
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.