Foundations and grantmaking organizations

Name: Top 20 Foundations
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There are 193,728 foundations in the United States. Combined, these foundations employ 446,037 people, earn more than $510 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 (922)
Organizations supporting multiple foundations (4,832)

Private foundations (151,006)
- Corporate foundations (2,207)
Public foundations (18,663)
- Community foundations (5,227)

Types of foundations

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Private foundations	151,006	32,774	$234,956,688,215	$1,423,386,936,836
Grantmaking public charity foundations	18,663	376,469	$246,597,008,468	$813,807,407,480
Community foundations	5,227	23,310	$49,317,756,304	$239,731,868,643
Organizations supporting multiple foundations	4,832	1,564	$4,665,961,824	$16,595,446,398
Corporate foundations	2,207	1,503	$31,991,445,248	$67,526,587,225
Organizations supporting a single foundation	922	438	$13,109,499,538	$89,314,791,665
Foundation alliances and advocates	338	692	$195,643,194	$304,161,599
Foundation professional societies	303	534	$262,587,911	$268,643,587
Foundation technical and management assistance providers	127	317	$62,813,607	$106,691,401
Foundation research and public policy institutes	23	90	$19,592,864	$23,669,032

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Job trends for Foundations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	118,081
1-10	8,258
11-25	915
26-100	560
101 to 1,000	179
1,000+	25

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	96,493
$250k to $1M	21,162
$1M to $5M	12,470
$5M to $25M	4,395
$25M to $100M	1,108
$100M+	435

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return, and DAFgiving360 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 72.5% 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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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)

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)

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)

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)

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

$19.7m

Assets

$752.8m

Employees

EIN

23-7000192

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

$85.6m

Assets

$89.6m

Employees

130

EIN

13-2617681

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

$386.6m

Assets

$2.3b

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)

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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

Skoll Foundation

Stuart Foundation

Eugene and Agnes E Meyer Foundation

Kresge Foundation

Bainum Family Foundation

Greater Washington Community Foundation

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Freedom Forum

Citybridge Foundation

Koret Foundation

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

United Way of New York City

Annie E Casey Foundation (AECF)

Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP)

Council on Foundations

The Philanthropy Roundtable

St Baldrick's Foundation (SBF)

Madison Community Foundation

California Community Foundation

De Beaumont Foundation

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