Grants for public foundations

Name: Top 25 grants made to grantmaking public charity foundations
Creator: Cause IQ
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4,595 grantmaking public charity foundations received at least $2.3 billion in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 7,214 grants made from 4,303 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,500. Of these 4,303 foundations, 79% made just a single grant to public foundations, and 4% made grants to four or more public foundations. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$2,327,344,199

Total grant dollars given to public foundations

7,214

Number of grants made annually to public foundations

4,303

Number of grantmakers funding public foundations

$1,500

Median grant size to public foundations

Foundations that support grantmaking public charity foundations

Out of all grants made to public foundations, 79% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 55% of the dollar-value of grants to public foundations. Foundations funding public foundations also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, scholarship organizations, educational service providers, food banks, and boys and girls clubs.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	3,423
Medium	461
Large	415

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	106
Private	3,619
Corporate	191
Other	387

Grants made

Grants made to public foundations	Number of grantmakers
1	3,401
2-3	722
4-10	134
11+	46

Top 10 foundations supporting grantmaking public charity foundations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to public foundations	Number of grants made to public foundations	Median grant size
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.3%	119	$300
Baird Foundation	WI	National	1.9%	93	$500
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.2%	92	$150
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines	IA	State	0.2%	75	$1,000
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.5%	69	$103
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.4%	67	$518
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	3.6%	55	$2,500
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	1.4%	52	$500
Rasmuson Foundation	AK	State	0.3%	52	$370
Arkansas Community Foundation	AR	State	0.2%	51	$1,500

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Grantmaking public charity foundations grantees

Public foundations with more than $5 million in total revenues received 93% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 41% of all public foundations.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	7,009
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	205

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,000
$100k-$500k	$1,000
$500k-$1M	$1,225
$1M-$5M	$1,500
>$5M	$1,700

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
California	893
New York	868
Florida	433
Texas	376
Other	4,644

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	845
Los Angeles	262
Chicago	242
San Francisco	206
Other	4,878

Top 25 grants made to public foundations

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
East Bay Community Foundation (EBCF)	$230,000,000	Grants/donation	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP)
Harvard Private Capital Realty	$204,301,195	Cash	Harvard University
East Bay Community Foundation (EBCF)	$197,500,000	Project Support	Kaiser Permanente
The Chicago Community Trust	$100,705,810	General Nonprofit Support	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
Mississippi State University	$55,756,772	See Part Iv	Mississippi State University Foundation
California Community Foundation	$50,000,000	Project Support	Kaiser Permanente
Casalena Foundation	$43,435,394	FMV	Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Casalena Foundation	$43,435,394	General Operations	Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
National Philanthropic Trust	$35,000,000	Support	Zero Zero One
Memorial Foundation	$32,995,846		BJC HealthCare
ClimateWorks Foundation	$32,895,050	Conservation and Science	David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Schwab Charitable Fund	$31,162,615	For the Barger Family Fund at Schwab Charitable, for Won/holden Family Fund, To the Hammarskjold Family Fund at the San Francisco Foundation of the Schwab Charitable Fund, for Nancy G. Schaub Donor Advised Fund. for the Hammarskjold Family Fund at Schwab Charitable Fund, for General Operating Support.	San Francisco Foundation (TSFF)
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program	$30,050,000	General Use	The Davis Family Foundation
National Philanthropic Trust	$29,309,952	Grants From Donor Advised Funds - Operating Support	Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago (JUF)
The City Fund	$26,340,169	General Nonprofit Support	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation	$24,694,536	Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundation	Greater Horizons
Central Kansas Community Foundation	$23,975,151	Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundation	Greater Horizons
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund	$21,667,631	Transfer To Daf	The Boston Foundation (TBF)
Impact Investing Charitable Trust	$19,905,950	Further Charitable Purpose of the Organization	Impact Foundation / Impact Investing Charitable Foundation Inc
South Central Community Foundation	$17,316,125	Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundation	Greater Horizons
National Philanthropic Trust	$16,949,026	Cash / Services	NPT Charitable Asset Trust (NPTCAT)
National Philanthropic Trust	$16,949,026	Public Societal Benefit	NPT Charitable Asset Trust (NPTCAT)
Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico	$15,167,994	Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundation	Greater Horizons
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta	$15,000,042	For the Joseph B. Whitehead Fund To Support Achieve Atlanta, An Initiative To Improve the Postsecondary Success of Students in Atlanta Public Schools.	Joseph B Whitehead Foundation
Episcopal Collegiate School Foundation	$15,000,000	Education Institutions and Related Activities	Jackson T Stephens Charitable Trust for Art

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Public foundations" category for this page is determined by the "T30: Public Foundations" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.