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Look up any U.S. private foundation by name, EIN, city, or state. Pull total giving, grant counts, median grant size, trustees, and asset base from the most recent IRS Form 990 filings. No login. Updated daily.

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Top foundations by total giving in the U.S.

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Foundation Based in Total giving Grants
John And Leslea Caswell Family Apple Valley, MN $2,280,827 128
Lj Charitable Foundation Great Neck, NY $2,280,725 7
Peck Stacpoole Foundation Marlboro, NY $2,280,579 170
Pitts Family Foundation Arden, NC $2,280,350 77
Cincinnati Law Library Association Cincinnati, OH $2,280,266 10
Whitfield Family Foundation Wilmington, DE $2,280,198 413
The Hersha H And Hasu P Shah Family Harrisburg, PA $2,280,141 31
The Invisible Hand Foundation Inc Bethesda, MD $2,280,081 902
Starvit Foundation Lindale, TX $2,280,000 8
The Stefany And Simon Bergson Foundation Palisades, NY $2,279,996 238
The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation New York, NY $2,279,888 279
The Whitcomb Charitable Foundation Greenwood Village, CO $2,279,630 130
The Buck Foundation Rogers, AR $2,279,605 561
The Dorothy B Francis Charitable Cincinnati, OH $2,279,600 225
Kevin E Myers Family Foundation Berlin, MD $2,279,202 43
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Foundations file 990s in the state where they hold legal domicile. Explore where private foundations are most concentrated across the U.S.

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U.S. territories

American Samoa (AS) 3 Guam (GU) 0 Northern Mariana Islands (MP) 4 Puerto Rico (PR) 94 U.S. Virgin Islands (VI) 21
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Foundations by category and city

Two common starting points. Category browsing pinpoints funders by program focus. Major U.S. cities concentrate the largest grant dollars.

Browse by top giving categories in the U.S.

Category Foundations
Education 1,878
Health care 1,052
Human services 1,032
Arts, culture & humanities 714
Youth development 627
Religion-related 587
Community improvement 408
Philanthropy & grantmaking 362

Browse by major cities in the U.S.

City Total giving
New York, NY $1.3B
Dallas, TX $1.1B
Chicago, IL $799.9M
Wilmington, DE $788.3M
Pittsburgh, PA $656.4M
Las Vegas, NV $407.0M
Brooklyn, NY $406.1M
Los Angeles, CA $375.5M
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