Grants for public sector improvement organizations

Name: Top 25 grants made to public sector reform and improvement organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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665 public sector reform and improvement organizations received at least $184.9 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 1,128 grants made from 816 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 816 foundations, 81% made just a single grant to public sector orgs, and 3% made grants to four or more public sector orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$184,945,492

Total grant dollars given to public sector improvement organizations

1,128

Number of grants made annually to public sector improvement organizations

816

Number of grantmakers funding public sector improvement organizations

$1,000

Median grant size to public sector improvement organizations

Foundations that support public sector reform and improvement organizations

Out of all grants made to public sector improvement organizations, 75% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 75% of the dollar-value of grants to public sector orgs. Foundations funding public sector orgs also made grants to religious organizations, colleges, multiservice human service organizations, christian organizations, and international humanitarian organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	618
Medium	99
Large	99

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	18
Private	709
Corporate	34
Other	55

Grants made

Grants made to public sector orgs	Number of grantmakers
1	664
2-3	120
4-10	30
11+	2

Top 10 foundations supporting public sector reform and improvement organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to public sector orgs	Number of grants made to public sector orgs	Median grant size
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	16	$1,565
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.0%	13	$86
Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust	IL	National	3.8%	8	$3,000
Steiner King Foundation	OH	National	12.0%	8	$2,075
The Rhode Island Foundation	RI	Metro	0.0%	8	$1,100
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.1%	8	$1,000
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	8	$110
The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation	PA	National	2.6%	8	$275
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	7	$250
The Robertson-Finley Foundation	TX	National	11.7%	6	$3,000

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Public sector reform and improvement organizations grantees

Public sector improvement organizations with more than $5 million in total revenues received 87% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 52% of all public sector orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	1,099
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	29

Grant amount by grantee size

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

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
District of Columbia	401
Virginia	164
New York	100
California	79
Other	384

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Washington DC	561
New York City	99
Chicago	52
Los Angeles	34
Other	338

Top 25 grants made to public sector improvement organizations

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Consortium For Elections and Political Process Strengthening	$33,737,830	Democracy Assistance	Consortium For Elections and Political Process Strengthening
Center for International Private Enterprise	$18,557,946	Pluralism	National Endowment for Democracy
New Venture Fund	$9,817,396	General Nonprofit Support	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
Code for America	$9,500,000	To Provide Covid-19 Support	Blue Meridian Partners
New Venture Fund	$8,345,000	Delivery of Solutions To Improve Global Health; Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases; Family Planning; Financial Services for the Poor; Global Health and Development Public Awareness and Analysis; Inform and Engage Communities; Malaria; Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health; Pneumonia; Research and Learning Opportunities; Tobacco Control; Vaccine Delivery; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
New Venture Fund	$7,500,000	For Use By Co-Impact, A Global Collaborative for Systems Change, Toward the Costs of Funding Systems Change Efforts in Health, Education and Economic Opportunity Focusing on Underserved Populations With the Greatest Need	Rockefeller Foundation
New Venture Fund	$7,336,715	Family Interest Grantmaking	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
New Venture Fund	$7,329,402	To Implement the Seafood Collaboration for the Oceans and Seafood Markets Initiative.	Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation
New Venture Fund	$7,300,000	To Support Scaling Plan	Blue Meridian Partners
New Venture Fund	$6,484,192	To Support A Finance Hub That Will Support Implementation of the Conservation and Markets Initiative's Goal of Increasing Awareness of Natural Resource Risk Among Financial Institutions.	Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation
Nevadans for Secure Elections	$6,250,000	Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy	Sixteen Thirty Fund
New Venture Fund	$5,000,000	2020 Census Project	The JPB Foundation
New Venture Fund	$4,603,100	Conservation and Science	David and Lucile Packard Foundation
American Action Network (AAN)	$4,500,000	General Contribution	Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Progress North Carolina	$4,500,000	Citizen Engagement	Progressnow Now Education
2040 Foundation	$3,725,000	Support for Clean Energy Innovation Initiatives	2040 Foundation
New Venture Fund	$3,570,000	Promote Revitalization of Distressed Communities	Sean N. Parker Foundation
Fwdus Education Fund	$3,537,563	Actual	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation
Fwdus Education Fund	$3,537,563	General Operating Support	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation
New Venture Fund	$3,362,428	Charitable Purposes of the Organization	Rodan Family Foundation
Center for Responsible Lending	$3,000,000	General Support	Sandler Foundation
FreedomWorks	$2,910,278	Actual Expenses	FreedomWorks Foundation
FreedomWorks	$2,893,337	Allocated Based on Employee Time	FreedomWorks Foundation
New Venture Fund	$2,758,354	Research, Analysis, Investigation and Advocacy - in Support of the Enough Project and the Sentry	Thesentryorg
Grow Boating	$2,596,946	Cash	National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA)

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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 "Public sector improvement organizations" category for this page is determined by the "W20: Government and Public Administration" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.