Foundations and grantmaking organizations

Name: Top 20 Foundations
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There are 193,700 foundations in the United States. Combined, these foundations employ 449,144 people, earn more than $485 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $2 trillion.

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Subcategories within foundations and grantmaking organizations:

Organizations supporting a foundation (938)
Organizations supporting multiple foundations (4,847)

Private foundations (151,011)
- Corporate foundations (2,264)
Public foundations (18,458)
- Community foundations (5,124)

Types of foundations

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Private foundations	151,011	32,472	$227,745,169,383	$1,381,839,262,954
Grantmaking public charity foundations	18,458	379,017	$229,462,538,923	$764,942,373,895
Community foundations	5,124	26,269	$46,409,919,034	$231,377,733,578
Organizations supporting multiple foundations	4,847	1,561	$4,674,819,800	$16,593,299,800
Corporate foundations	2,264	1,495	$31,785,710,151	$66,317,729,602
Organizations supporting a single foundation	938	494	$12,718,370,543	$88,790,638,582
Foundation alliances and advocates	340	779	$184,187,023	$293,014,835
Foundation professional societies	303	535	$283,922,662	$251,902,370
Foundation technical and management assistance providers	136	320	$64,424,896	$107,533,641
Foundation research and public policy institutes	24	90	$19,592,864	$23,669,032

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Job trends for Foundations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	117,310
1-10	8,169
11-25	921
26-100	556
101 to 1,000	182
1,000+	27

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Foundations is driven by large organizations like Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, See Statement, and Apella Health Management.
The largest employers tend to be public foundations, foundations, private foundations, community foundations, and organizations supporting multiple foundations.

Sizes of foundations

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	96,572
$250k to $1M	20,734
$1M to $5M	12,183
$5M to $25M	4,307
$25M to $100M	1,091
$100M+	436

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return, National Philanthropic Trust, and Gates Foundation Trust earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Foundations.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 3.1% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Foundations with more than $100 million account for 71.7% of nonprofit earnings.
The highest earning organizations tend to be private foundations, public foundations, community foundations, corporate foundations, and organizations supporting a foundation.

Directory of foundations

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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

$25.8m

Assets

$650.2m

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

$61.3m

Assets

$4.0b

Employees

124

EIN

38-1359217

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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

$41.2m

Assets

$520.3m

Employees

EIN

20-0882784

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

$47.9m

Assets

$846.9m

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

$123.2m

Assets

$518.3m

Employees

EIN

23-7343119

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

$21.8m

Assets

$230.7m

Employees

EIN

53-0241716

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

$33.8m

Assets

$731.8m

Employees

EIN

23-7000192

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation connects donors with nonprofits, fostering impactful philanthropy and supporting a thriving community through charitable giving and strategic partnerships.

Revenue

$183.7m

Assets

$1.0b

Employees

EIN

31-0669700

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

$1.6m

Assets

$2.1m

Employees

EIN

52-1870074

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

The Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund enhances donor generosity, distributing $11.8 billion in 2023 to support various charitable causes and organizations.

Revenue

$19.0b

Assets

$66.8b

Employees

EIN

11-0303001

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

$34.4m

Assets

$315.5m

Employees

EIN

94-1624987

IRS type

501(c)(3)

California Community Foundation

The California Community Foundation strengthens Los Angeles communities through strategic investments, advocacy, and solutions in housing, education, health, and civic engagement.

Revenue

$291.6m

Assets

$2.2b

Employees

104

EIN

95-3510055

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

$6.7m

Assets

$163.5m

Employees

EIN

04-3467074

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

$39.0m

Assets

$1.3b

Employees

EIN

20-3672969

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

$164.1m

Assets

$2.3b

Employees

207

EIN

52-1951681

IRS type

501(c)(3)

United Way of New York City

United Way of NYC mobilizes communities to provide low-income New Yorkers with access to education, food and economic mobility.

Revenue

$81.2m

Assets

$73.5m

Employees

131

EIN

13-2617681

IRS type

501(c)(3)

United Way of the National Capital Area (UWNCA)

United Way of the National Capital Area (United Way NCA) works to create a thriving community where adults and children have access to excellent schools, good health, safe neighborhoods and jobs that pay a livable wage.

Revenue

$19.2m

Assets

$48.8m

Employees

EIN

53-0234290

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Philanthropy Roundtable

The Philanthropy Roundtable empowers Americans to give meaningfully, promotes philanthropic freedom, and fosters values of liberty, opportunity, and personal responsibility.

Revenue

$12.5m

Assets

$22.5m

Employees

EIN

13-2943020

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

$23.9m

Assets

$29.7m

Employees

EIN

20-1173824

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

$12.9m

Assets

$38.2m

Employees

EIN

13-6068327

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

Freedom Forum

Kresge Foundation

Stuart Foundation

Skoll Foundation

Greater Washington Community Foundation

Meyer Foundation

Bainum Family Foundation

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Citybridge Foundation

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Koret Foundation

California Community Foundation

De Beaumont Foundation

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

Annie E Casey Foundation (AECF)

United Way of New York City

United Way of the National Capital Area (UWNCA)

The Philanthropy Roundtable

St Baldrick's Foundation (SBF)

Council on Foundations

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