Foundations and grantmaking organizations

There are 185,805foundations in the United States. Combined, these foundationsemploy 419,893 people, earn more than $316 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $2 trillion.

Types of foundations

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
145,194
$143,694,627,768
17,062
$128,069,623,598
4,278
$26,791,105,266
4,188
$1,789,522,633
3,329
$16,465,531,195
904
$30,231,908,418
293
$256,723,386
293
$359,765,062
124
$166,632,846
25
$68,734,086
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Job trends for Foundations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
15,394
1-10
7,837
11-25
903
26-100
572
101 to 1,000
168
1,000+
17
Key takeaways for employment stats:

Sizes of foundations

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
99,967
$250k to $1M
16,828
$1M to $5M
9,553
$5M to $25M
3,352
$25M to $100M
867
$100M+
330
Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Directory of foundations


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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.