Grants for nonprofit management centers

364 nonprofit management organizations received at least $36.8 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 639 grants made from 479 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,620. Of these 479 foundations, 86% made just a single grant to real estate orgs, and 3% made grants to four or more real estate orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.
$36,798,770
Total grant dollars given to nonprofit management centers
639
Number of grants made annually to nonprofit management centers
479
Number of grantmakers funding nonprofit management centers
$1,620
Median grant size to nonprofit management centers

Foundations that support nonprofit management organizations

Out of all grants made to nonprofit management centers, 62% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 96% of the dollar-value of grants to real estate orgs. Foundations funding real estate orgs also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, educational service providers, colleges, scholarship organizations, and youth development programs.

Foundation size

Foundation size Number of grantmakers
Small
 
299
Medium
 
61
Large
 
119
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
 
19
Private
 
384
Corporate
 
29
Other
 
47

Grants made

Grants made to real estate orgs Number of grantmakers
1
 
413
2-3
 
48
4-10
 
15
11+
 
3

Top 10 foundations supporting nonprofit management organizations

Grantmaker State Geographic focus Percent of grant dollars to real estate orgs Number of grants made to real estate orgs Median grant size
Abell-Hanger Foundation TX Metro 0.3% 18 $511
JP Morgan Chase Foundation NY National 0.0% 14 $150
Seattle Foundation WA State 0.0% 13 $1,000
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines IA State 0.0% 9 $1,500
Salesforce Com Foundation CA National 0.0% 8 $100
California Wellness Foundation CA State 0.1% 6 $5,000
David and Lucile Packard Foundation CA State 0.0% 5 $5,000
Dyson Foundation NY State 0.2% 5 $5,000
Rasmuson Foundation AK State 0.1% 5 $2,600
Baxter IL National 0.0% 5 $515

Nonprofit management organizations grantees

Nonprofit management centers with more than $5 million in total revenues received 88% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 42% of all real estate orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant Number of grants
<$10k
 
629
$10k-$25k
 
0
$25k-$100k
 
0
$100k+
 
10

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue Median grant size
<$100k
 
$2,500
$100k-$500k
 
$2,000
$500k-$1M
 
$1,500
$1M-$5M
 
$2,256
>$5M
 
$1,000

Grantee states

State of grantee Number of grants
District of Columbia
 
159
California
 
105
New York
 
54
Massachusetts
 
40
Other
 
281

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee Number of grants
Washington DC
 
167
New York City
 
52
San Francisco
 
46
Boston
 
38
Other
 
321

Top 25 grants made to nonprofit management centers

Grantee Grant size Purpose Grantmaker
NPower $5,740,600 For Veteran and Young Adult Training and Programming Fund Ii Foundation
Strive Together $4,800,000 To Support Capacity Building Blue Meridian Partners
Oneoc $4,109,193 Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundation Greater Horizons
BCFS Health and Human Services (BCFS) $3,455,027 See Part Iv Baptist Child & Family Services (BCFS)
BCFS Health and Human Services (BCFS) $3,455,027 FMV Baptist Child & Family Services (BCFS)
Center For Community Initiatives of Greater Houston Community Foundation $3,178,876 Education and Support of the Houston Community Dan L Duncan Foundation
Tsne Missionworks (TSNE) $3,039,773 76499 Increasing the Network for Public Health Law Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Bridgespan Group $2,610,112 To Support Scaling Plan Blue Meridian Partners
Charitable Ventures of Orange County (CVOC) $2,577,750 Human Services Orange County Community Foundation (OCCF)
Movement Strategy Center $2,500,000 Project Support: Resonance Network Novo Foundation
Midland Shared Spaces $5,000 Operations Hord Foundation
Utah Nonprofits Association $5,000 To Support Utah Philanthropy Day 2020 The Kahlert Foundation
The Contingent $5,000 Donation The Ramig Family Foundation
Youth $5,000 Educational Programs & Other Student SVC Goldman Sachs Gives
Movement Strategy Center $5,000 Program Support Chamberlin Family Foundation
Tsne Missionworks (TSNE) $5,000 General Support New World Foundation
Points of Light Foundation $5,000 Charitable The Coneway Family Foundation
GreatNonprofits $5,000 General Support David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Northern California Grantmakers $5,000 General Support David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Center for Excellence in Nonprofits $5,000 General Support David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Charitable Ventures of Orange County (CVOC) $5,000 For 2019 Membership. California Wellness Foundation
Charitable Ventures of Orange County (CVOC) $5,000 For Core Operating Support To Orange County Women's Health Project To Provide Health and Wellness Educational Resources To Women in Orange County. California Wellness Foundation
Charitable Ventures of Orange County (CVOC) $5,000 For Core Operating Support for the Orange County Womens Health Projects Womens Health Summit in November 2019 To Convene Health Care, Nonprofit and Social Service Professionals To Address and Advance Health Equity for Women in Orange County. California Wellness Foundation
PEAK Grantmaking (GMN) $5,000 For 2019 Membership. California Wellness Foundation
Social Venture Partners Los Angeles $5,000 For Core Operating Support for the "social Innovation Fast Pitch" Event in March 2019 in Los Angeles and the Systems Change Accelerator Program As Strategies To Promote Innovation in the Operations and Service Delivery of Nonprofit Health and Wellness Org California Wellness Foundation
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 "Nonprofit management centers" category for this page is determined by the "S50: Nonprofit Management" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.