Foundations and grantmaking organizations

Name: Top 20 Foundations
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There are 187,641foundations in the United States. Combined, these foundationsemploy 418,548 people, earn more than $316 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $2 trillion.

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Subcategories within foundations and grantmaking organizations:

Private foundations(146,828)
- Corporate foundations(3,349)
Public foundations(17,165)
- Community foundations(4,318)

Types of foundations

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Private foundations	146,828	217,761	$143,868,723,563	$1,172,532,652,603
Grantmaking public charity foundations	17,165	160,033	$128,089,600,546	$439,235,409,794
Community foundations	4,318	22,229	$26,798,833,907	$145,129,530,560
Organizations supporting multiple foundations	4,264	1,140	$1,789,082,972	$4,438,479,397
Corporate foundations	3,349	2,448	$16,465,716,213	$108,752,969,265
Organizations supporting a single foundation	911	516	$30,232,016,664	$77,003,045,053
Foundation alliances and advocates	296	925	$358,870,361	$412,706,252
Foundation professional societies	295	534	$256,470,901	$272,236,738
Foundation technical and management assistance providers	127	373	$166,629,414	$123,146,225
Foundation research and public policy institutes	27	276	$68,734,086	$137,518,782

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Job trends for Foundations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	16,031
1-10	7,833
11-25	901
26-100	569
101 to 1,000	164
1,000+	17

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Foundations is driven by large organizations like Issachar Fund, Cleveland Clinic, Prime Healthcare Foundation, Apella Health Management, and THE Carle Foundation Hospital.
The largest employers tend to be private foundations, public foundations, foundations, community foundations, and corporate foundations.

Sizes of foundations

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	99,879
$250k to $1M	16,850
$1M to $5M	9,574
$5M to $25M	3,358
$25M to $100M	868
$100M+	330

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Cleveland Clinic, and Schwab Charitable Fund earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Foundations.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 3.0% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Foundations with more than $100 million account for 66.5% of nonprofit earnings.
The highest earning organizations tend to be private foundations, public foundations, organizations supporting a foundation, community foundations, and corporate foundations.

Directory of foundations

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The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

GCF inspires philanthropy, with 1,091 donor advised funds and designated funds for ongoing funding of specific organizations or purposes.

Revenue

$105.4m

Assets

$820.4m

Employees

EIN

31-0669700

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Skoll Foundation

The Skoll Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world's most pressing problems.

Revenue

$53.8m

Assets

$785.7m

Employees

EIN

11-3659133

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Greater Washington Community Foundation

The mission of the Community Foundation for the national capital region is to strengthen the Washington metropolitan region by encouraging and supporting effective giving and by providing leadership on critical issues in our Community.

Revenue

$244.7m

Assets

$525.3m

Employees

EIN

23-7343119

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Freedom Forum

The Freedom Forum -- dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people -- is a nonpartisan foundation that champions the five freedoms of the First Amendment.

Revenue

$6.6m

Assets

$568.8m

Employees

EIN

54-1604427

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Kresge Foundation

To expand opportunities in America's cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development in Detroit.

Revenue

$245.0m

Assets

$4.0b

Employees

117

EIN

38-1359217

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Meyer Foundation

The Meyer Foundation pursues and invests in solutions that build an equitable Greater Washington community in which economically disadvantaged people thrive.

Revenue

$463.4k

Assets

$210.7m

Employees

EIN

53-0241716

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Stuart Foundation

The Stuart Foundation is dedicated to improving life outcomes for young people through education. They work to ensure that effective education systems in California and Washington provide opportunities for all students to learn, achieve, and thrive.

Revenue

$19.5m

Assets

$461.5m

Employees

EIN

20-0882784

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Bainum Family Foundation

Bainum Family Foundation operates and supports educational programs and projects assisting underserved children and youth, from early childhood through post-secondary education.

Revenue

$74.3m

Assets

$786.3m

Employees

EIN

23-7000192

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Annie E Casey Foundation (AECF)

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is devoted to developing a brighter future for millions of children at risk of poor educational, economic, social and health outcomes.

Revenue

$218.6m

Assets

$2.4b

Employees

189

EIN

52-1951681

IRS type

501(c)(3)

De Beaumont Foundation

The de Beaumont Foundation believes that a strong public health system is essential. They work to transform the practice of public health through strategic and engaged grantmaking.

Revenue

$10.4m

Assets

$181.7m

Employees

EIN

04-3467074

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Philanthropy Roundtable

The Philanthropy Roundtable fosters excellent philanthropy, protects freedom, and supports donors advancing liberty, opportunity, and personal responsibility.

Revenue

$11.1m

Assets

$15.9m

Employees

EIN

13-2943020

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP)

CEP's mission is to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness - and, as a result, their intended impact.

Revenue

$13.7m

Assets

$22.1m

Employees

EIN

04-3523528

IRS type

501(c)(3)

St Baldrick's Foundation (SBF)

The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer and donor powered charity committed to supporting the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.

Revenue

$22.6m

Assets

$23.0m

Employees

EIN

20-1173824

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Madison Community Foundation

The mission of Madison Community Foundation (MCF) is to enhance the common good through philanthropy. Created in 1942 as Madison Community Trust, MCF helps people do their charitable giving their way, to causes they care about most.

Revenue

$36.9m

Assets

$272.4m

Employees

EIN

39-6038248

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Koret Foundation

The Koret Foundation is a private foundation based in San Francisco, committed to strengthening the Bay Area community and nurturing the continuity of the Jewish people worldwide.

Revenue

$29.8m

Assets

$465.2m

Employees

EIN

94-1624987

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Council on Foundations

The Council on Foundations is a nonprofit membership association providing philanthropic organizations with the leadership and tools they need to expand, enhance and sustain their ability to advance the common good.

Revenue

$11.5m

Assets

$37.6m

Employees

EIN

13-6068327

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Citybridge Foundation

Citybridge Foundation is a private foundation in Washington, DC whose mission is: CityBridge Foundation is the private family foundation of Katherine and David Bradley.

Revenue

$128.5k

Assets

$7.8m

Employees

N/A

EIN

52-1870074

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

To promote entrepreneurship, self-reliance, global understanding, free enterprise, and to enhance the quality of life by supporting the arts, education, health advancements, and preservation of the environment.

Revenue

$63.4m

Assets

$1.4b

Employees

EIN

20-3672969

IRS type

501(c)(3)

California Community Foundation

California Community Foundation leads change to strengthen LA communities. Manages 1,500+ charitable funds for individuals, families and orgs.

Revenue

$542.9m

Assets

$2.1b

Employees

EIN

95-3510055

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)

To help nations grow while addressing increasingly scarce resources and climate risk. This is a complex challenge in which policy plays a crucial role.

Revenue

$16.5m

Assets

$26.8m

Employees

EIN

26-4129153

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.

This category corresponds to the "T00: Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.

Foundations and grantmaking organizations

Types of foundations

Job trends for Foundations

Sizes of foundations

Directory of foundations

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Skoll Foundation

Greater Washington Community Foundation

Freedom Forum

Kresge Foundation

Meyer Foundation

Stuart Foundation

Bainum Family Foundation

Annie E Casey Foundation (AECF)

De Beaumont Foundation

The Philanthropy Roundtable

Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP)

St Baldrick's Foundation (SBF)

Madison Community Foundation

Koret Foundation

Council on Foundations

Citybridge Foundation

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

California Community Foundation

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)

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