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Largest grantmakers

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund reported $15.3 billion in grants paid on its most recent return, the most of any tax-exempt organization for 2024, according to the IRS.

The 100 organizations reporting the most paid out in grants on their most recent filing. 21 of them itemized their grants, 17,339 in all.

By grants paid

Grants paid, not assets held. A large endowment that gives away little and a small one that gives away most of itself are different things, and this is the column that separates them — which is why the share of assets sits beside it.

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Organizations ranked by grants paid on their most recent filing
RankOrganizationGrants paid
1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$15.3 billion
2Donor Advised Charitable Giving$8.9 billion
3Guerreras Latinas$8.2 billion
4Gates Foundation Trust$8.1 billion
5National Philanthropic Tr$6.4 billion
6Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria$6.2 billion
7Gates Foundation$5.9 billion
8Feeding America$4.8 billion
9Astrazeneca Patient Assistance Organization$4.6 billion
10Sanofi-Aventis Patient Assistance Foundation$4.1 billion
11Lilly Endowment Inc$3.9 billion
12Genentech Patient Foundation$3.5 billion
13Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$3.5 billion
14Silicon Valley Community Foundation$3.3 billion
15GOOD360$3.3 billion
16Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation$3.1 billion
17GS Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc$3.1 billion
18GAVI Alliance$2.9 billion
19Bristol-Myers Squibb Patient Assistance Foundation Inc$2.7 billion
20National Christian Charitable Foundation$2.6 billion
21American Online Giving Foundation Inc$2.3 billion
22International Olympic Committee$2.3 billion
23The Wellcome Trust$2.0 billion
24Direct Relief$2.0 billion
25Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation Inc$2.0 billion
26Gothic Corporation$2.0 billion
27Merck Patient Assistance Program Inc$1.9 billion
28American Lebanese Syrian Assoc Char Inc$1.9 billion
29NYU Langone Hospitals$1.8 billion
30Americares Foundation Inc$1.8 billion
31Mayo Clinic Group Return$1.7 billion
32Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc$1.6 billion
33Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany$1.5 billion
34Pfizer Patient Assistance Foundation Inc$1.5 billion
35The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation$1.5 billion
36Mass General Brigham Incorporated and Affiliates Group RTN$1.4 billion
37Bayer US Patient Assistance Foundation$1.4 billion
38The Mastercard Foundation$1.4 billion
39Big Ten Conference Inc$1.4 billion
40Johns Hopkins University$1.3 billion
41American Endowment Foundation$1.3 billion
42Map International$1.3 billion
43The Chicago Community Trust$1.2 billion
44Novo Nordisk Fonden$1.2 billion
45World Federation of Hemophilia USA$1.2 billion
46Inland Counties Regional Center Inc$1.2 billion
47University of Southern California$1.1 billion
48World Vision$1.1 billion
49President and Fellows of Harvard College$1.1 billion
50North Los Angeles County Regional Center Inc$1.1 billion
51New York University$1.1 billion
52Jewish Communal Fund$1.0 billion
53Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc$1.0 billion
54Trustees of Columbia University$996.0 million
55Charities Aid Foundation America$993.2 million
56Regional Center of the East Bay Inc$975.2 million
57Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund$969.5 million
58Trustees of Boston University$938.6 million
59Cornell University$925.4 million
60Navigate Affordable Housing Partners Inc$890.1 million
61The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University$887.7 million
62San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Inc$883.4 million
63Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation$874.6 million
64Alta California Regional Center Inc$870.5 million
65San Andreas Regional Center$862.7 million
66Yale University$861.2 million
67Glaxosmithkline Patient Access Programs Foundation$842.9 million
68Regional Center of Orange County$807.2 million
69Foundation for the Carolinas$804.5 million
70Paypal Charitable Giving Fund$797.9 million
71University of Miami$791.4 million
72Step Up for Students - Florida Inc$790.2 million
73University of Chicago$789.3 million
74Florida Clinical Practice Association Inc$784.4 million
75Volkswagen-Stiftung$782.2 million
76Northwestern University$780.3 million
77Global Health Solutions Inc$772.0 million
78Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc$770.8 million
79Ford Foundation$770.7 million
80Atlantic Coast Conference$736.9 million
81BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund$725.6 million
82Massachusetts Institute of Technology$706.6 million
83Howard G Buffett Foundation$698.7 million
84Northeastern University$689.3 million
85Sergey Brin Family Foundation$688.7 million
86Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania$675.6 million
87South Central L A Reg Central for Dvlopmntly Disabled Persons Inc$674.4 million
88Central Valley Regional Center Inc$668.2 million
89Robert Wood Johnson Foundation$660.7 million
90Washington University$650.6 million
91Save the Children Federation Inc$632.7 million
92William & Flora Hewlett Foundation$625.0 million
93Princeton University$620.3 million
94National Collegiate Athletic Association$618.4 million
95Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$616.1 million
96Mayo Clinic$607.4 million
97Golden Gate Regional Center Inc$597.3 million
98Impactassets Inc$592.0 million
99Emory University$586.2 million
100Tri-Counties Association for the Developmentally Disabled Inc$580.2 million

How to read this

  • Only a Form 990-PF itemizes individual grants, so “grants listed” is blank for organizations filing a 990 or 990-EZ even though they report a total. A blank is not zero grants.
  • Share of assets above 100% is possible and is not an error: a foundation can pay out more than it holds at year end, by spending down or by passing money straight through.
  • On a Form 990-PF the figure is Part I line 25, contributions and grants paid. On a 990 it is grants and similar amounts paid. They are close but not the same line, and the form is shown for each row.
  • Nothing here says who received the money. Foundations list their recipients in the filing, and that is a separate piece of work — who funds whom is a different question from who gives most.
  • Each row is that organization’s most recent filing, and those are different years.

Sources

Compiled automatically from Exempt Organizations Business Master File and Form 990 series e-file data by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

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