Foundations and grantmaking organizations

Name: Top 20 Foundations
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There are 193,720 foundations in the United States. Combined, these foundations employ 402,396 people, earn more than $475 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 (940)
Organizations supporting multiple foundations (4,889)

Private foundations (150,800)
- Corporate foundations (2,269)
Public foundations (18,262)
- Community foundations (4,983)

Types of foundations

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Private foundations	150,800	32,621	$227,818,259,141	$1,383,064,935,143
Grantmaking public charity foundations	18,262	328,707	$217,314,676,772	$746,764,989,095
Community foundations	4,983	24,813	$45,082,602,676	$231,373,313,442
Organizations supporting multiple foundations	4,889	1,602	$4,690,910,355	$16,599,258,370
Corporate foundations	2,269	1,631	$32,681,231,453	$80,986,122,480
Organizations supporting a single foundation	940	505	$12,755,393,668	$88,787,647,517
Foundation alliances and advocates	341	793	$185,362,921	$294,189,285
Foundation professional societies	310	557	$280,765,801	$248,256,587
Foundation technical and management assistance providers	138	322	$64,394,670	$107,685,291
Foundation research and public policy institutes	24	67	$18,072,459	$16,504,595

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Job trends for Foundations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	117,023
1-10	8,203
11-25	925
26-100	565
101 to 1,000	182
1,000+	26

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Foundations is driven by large organizations like Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return, See Statement, Apella Health Management, and Sutter Valley Medical Foundation (SMF).
The largest employers tend to be public foundations, foundations, private foundations, community foundations, and corporate foundations.

Sizes of foundations

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	96,896
$250k to $1M	20,507
$1M to $5M	12,082
$5M to $25M	4,272
$25M to $100M	1,082
$100M+	433

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 3.2% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Foundations with more than $100 million account for 71.3% 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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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

$100.0m

Assets

$530.9m

Employees

EIN

23-7343119

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Eugene and Agnes E 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)

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)

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

$41.2m

Assets

$520.3m

Employees

EIN

20-0882784

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)

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)

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)

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

$55.3m

Assets

$347.6m

Employees

EIN

39-6038248

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

$21.2m

Assets

$52.0m

Employees

EIN

53-0234290

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)

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

$23.3m

Assets

$29.0m

Employees

EIN

20-1173824

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

$14.2m

Assets

$21.6m

Employees

EIN

04-3523528

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)

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)

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)

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)

Robin Hood Foundation / Tudor Charitable TR

Robin Hood Foundation funds effective NYC poverty-fighting programs and partners with community-based organizations to support low-income New Yorkers.

Revenue

$180.5m

Assets

$334.5m

Employees

128

EIN

13-3441066

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)

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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

Greater Washington Community Foundation

Eugene and Agnes E Meyer Foundation

Bainum Family Foundation

Skoll Foundation

Stuart Foundation

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Freedom Forum

Kresge Foundation

De Beaumont Foundation

Madison Community Foundation

United Way of the National Capital Area (UWNCA)

Koret Foundation

St Baldrick's Foundation (SBF)

Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP)

The Philanthropy Roundtable

California Community Foundation

United Way of New York City

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

Robin Hood Foundation / Tudor Charitable TR

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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