Grantmaking public charity foundations

There are 17,126public foundations in the United States. Combined, these public foundationsemploy 165,582 people, earn more than $116 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $485 billion.

Types of public foundations

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
17,126
$115,913,005,293
4,474
$24,446,187,644
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Job trends for Public foundations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
4,571
1-10
1,236
11-25
343
26-100
197
101 to 1,000
58
1,000+
15
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Sizes of public foundations

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
5,054
$250k to $1M
1,559
$1M to $5M
1,179
$5M to $25M
590
$25M to $100M
207
$100M+
113
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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 "T30: Public Foundations" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.