Grants for crisis hotlines

Name: Top 25 grants made to crisis hotlines and intervention services
Creator: Cause IQ
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419 crisis hotlines and intervention services received at least $6.0 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 756 grants made from 564 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 564 foundations, 89% made just a single grant to crisis hotlines, and 3% made grants to four or more crisis hotlines. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$6,008,096

Total grant dollars given to crisis hotlines

756

Number of grants made annually to crisis hotlines

564

Number of grantmakers funding crisis hotlines

$1,000

Median grant size to crisis hotlines

Foundations that support crisis hotlines and intervention services

Out of all grants made to crisis hotlines, 77% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 78% of the dollar-value of grants to crisis hotlines. Foundations funding crisis hotlines also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, food banks, scholarship organizations, and emergency assistance programs.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	433
Medium	60
Large	69

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	15
Private	441
Corporate	57
Other	51

Grants made

Grants made to crisis hotlines	Number of grantmakers
1	503
2-3	42
4-10	13
11+	6

Top 10 foundations supporting crisis hotlines and intervention services

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to crisis hotlines	Number of grants made to crisis hotlines	Median grant size
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.1%	17	$250
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.0%	17	$100
Baxter	IL	National	0.0%	14	$55
The Rhode Island Foundation	RI	Metro	0.1%	12	$2,000
Community Foundation of North Texas (NTXCF)	TX	State	0.1%	12	$1,000
Chick-fil-A Foundation	GA	Regional	0.1%	12	$1,000
Salesforce Com Foundation	CA	National	0.0%	10	$100
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.0%	9	$84
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	7	$2,000
Georgia Power	GA	State	0.1%	7	$300

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Crisis hotlines and intervention services grantees

Crisis hotlines with more than $5 million in total revenues received 82% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 33% of all crisis hotlines.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	755
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	1

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,000
$100k-$500k	$1,000
$500k-$1M	$2,000
$1M-$5M	$1,600
>$5M	$765

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	154
California	83
Washington	49
Illinois	44
Other	426

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	154
Los Angeles	43
Chicago	40
Bridgeport	32
Other	425

Top 25 grants made to crisis hotlines

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago	$4,579,635	Services To Victims of Sexual Assault	Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault (ICASA)
Mother Seton House	$5,000	Donation	Monarch Charities
Helpline House	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	Archarios Foundation
Womens Center of Tarrant County	$5,000		Colleyville Woman's Club
Crisis Connection	$5,000	Charitable	German American Foundation
Palmetto Citizens Against Sexual Assault	$5,000	Sex Assaulte	United Way of Chester County in
Rape Foundation	$5,000	To Support and Fund Programs To Provide Free Services for Sexual Assault Victims.	The Lawrence and Diedre Gordon Foundation
Idaho Anti Trafficking Coalition	$5,000	Support Rescuing and Recovory of Trafficked Children	Operation Underground Railroad (OUR)
Graham E Smith Memorial Fund for Suicide Prevention	$5,000	Education	DTE Energy Foundation
Aspen Hope Center	$5,000	To Support the Charitable Mission of the Recipient Organization	Robins Foundation
Rape Crisis Intervention of North Central California	$5,000	General Support	InFaith Community Foundation (ICF)
Crisis Center	$5,000	Counseling Services	The Nolen Family Foundation
Napa Solano Sane Sart	$5,000	Entreprenuership	The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation
Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response Center	$5,000	Entreprenuership	The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation
Center for Community Solutions	$5,000	Miscellaneous Grant	Weingart Foundation
Hope Coalition	$5,000	Human Services Program Support	Greater Green Bay Community Foundation (GGBCF)
Suicide Prevention Coalition of Eagle Valley	$5,000	Community Training Partnership	Vail Health Hospital
The Blue Bench	$5,000	Funding for Local Organization	Delta Dental of Colorado / Colorado Dental Service Inc
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention	$5,000	2019 Lifesavers Gala	Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund
Rape Foundation	$5,000	Social Justice	Angell Foundation
Hope for the Day	$5,000	General Operating Support	The Grossinger Foundation
The Samaritans of New York	$5,000	General Support	The Robinson Harris Foundation
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	Herbert and Nell Singer Foundation
Mujeres Unidas Y Activas (MUA)	$5,000	General Support	The Grove Foundation
Assistance League of El Paso	$5,000	Support Operation School Bell Fundraiser	Paul L Foster Family Foundation

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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 "Crisis hotlines" category for this page is determined by the "F40: Hot Line, Crisis Intervention Services" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.