Grants for public sector, public co-ops, and veteran organizations

Name: Top 25 grants made to public sector, public cooperatives, and veteran organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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3,192 public sector, public cooperatives, and veteran organizations received at least $294.6 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 3,999 grants made from 2,614 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 2,614 foundations, 78% made just a single grant to public policy orgs, and 4% made grants to four or more public policy orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$294,619,851

Total grant dollars given to public sector, public co-ops, and veteran organizations

3,999

Number of grants made annually to public sector, public co-ops, and veteran organizations

2,614

Number of grantmakers funding public sector, public co-ops, and veteran organizations

$1,000

Median grant size to public sector, public co-ops, and veteran organizations

Foundations that support public sector, public cooperatives, and veteran organizations

Out of all grants made to public sector, public co-ops, and veteran organizations, 79% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 55% of the dollar-value of grants to public policy orgs. Foundations funding public policy orgs also made grants to public sector improvement organizations, religious organizations, animal shelters, christian organizations, and food banks.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	2,079
Medium	273
Large	260

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	68
Private	2,180
Corporate	117
Other	249

Grants made

Grants made to public policy orgs	Number of grantmakers
1	2,059
2-3	442
4-10	97
11+	16

Top 10 foundations supporting public sector, public cooperatives, and veteran organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to public policy orgs	Number of grants made to public policy orgs	Median grant size
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.1%	51	$137
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.1%	42	$50
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.3%	41	$625
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.1%	35	$774
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	34	$327
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.3%	28	$148
Synchrony Foundation	CT	National	0.1%	27	$130
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.1%	26	$1,565
Carmax Foundation	VA	National	0.2%	26	$500
Westrock Foundation	GA	National	0.0%	23	$33

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Public sector, public cooperatives, and veteran organizations grantees

Public sector, public co-ops, and veteran organizations with more than $5 million in total revenues received 86% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 49% of all public policy orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	3,951
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	48

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,500
$100k-$500k	$1,500
$500k-$1M	$2,000
$1M-$5M	$1,000
>$5M	$575

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
Florida	645
District of Columbia	645
California	333
Virginia	257
Other	2,119

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Washington DC	917
Jacksonville, FL	529
New York City	239
Chicago	132
Other	1,962

Top 25 grants made to public sector, public co-ops, and veteran 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
Tides Advocacy	$18,355,262	Project Support	Tides Foundation
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
Tides Advocacy	$8,723,000	Further Mission	Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
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
Bob Woodruff Foundation	$7,885,258	Salute To Service Grant	NFL Foundation
Self-Help Credit Union	$7,839,803	Highest Balance in 2019	Center for Community Self-Help
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
Public Citizen	$6,922,002	Actual Expenses Reimbursed	Public Citizen Foundation
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
Priorities USA	$6,000,156	Digital Communications and Voter Access Litigation	Priorities USA Foundation
City of New Haven in Municipal Building Corporation	$5,817,722	Communty Benefit Dev	Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH)
Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County Florida	$5,352,650	Mental Health Substance Abuse	South Florida Behavioral Health Network
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
Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)	$4,470,000	Propelnext 2.0	The Edna Mcconnell Clark Foundation
Public Citizen	$4,321,714	Allocation Based on Timesheets	Public Citizen 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 "Public sector, public co-ops, and veteran organizations" category for this page is determined by the "W00: Public Policy, Public Services Institutions: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.