Private foundations

There are 145,194private foundations in the United States. Combined, these private foundationsemploy 219,107 people, earn more than $144 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $1 trillion.

Types of private foundations

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
145,194
$143,694,627,768
3,329
$16,465,531,195
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Sizes of private foundations

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
88,594
$250k to $1M
13,901
$1M to $5M
7,547
$5M to $25M
2,479
$25M to $100M
562
$100M+
192
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Directory of private 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 "T20: Private Foundations" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.