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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
The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Thousand Oaks, CA $7,015,511 924
The Ondulado Fund Pebble Beach, CA $7,014,709 54
Jacques And Natasha Gelman Foundation New York, NY $7,014,500 127
Thomas Jaffe Foundation New York, NY $7,012,300 26
Filomen M D'agostino Foundation New York, NY $7,012,000 148
Everlasting Private Foundation Cupertino, CA $7,012,000 37
Leibowitz And Greenway Family Charitable Crotononhudson, NY $7,011,000 615
Scheidel Foundation Falls Church, VA $7,010,218 6
The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc Sea Girt, NJ $7,009,509 303
Renee B Fisher Foundation Inc Stanford, CA $7,006,305 90
Jon L Hagler Foundation Dover, MA $7,004,346 183
Stanley M Truhlsen Family Foundation Inc Omaha, NE $7,003,940 180
The Schiff Foundation Incorporated Northbrook, IL $7,000,001 75
David And Carole Caplan Charitable Foundation Greenwich, CT $7,000,000 6
Gula Tech Foundation Inc Fulton, MD $7,000,000 32
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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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Browse by top giving categories in the U.S.

Category Foundations
Education 2,011
Health care 1,272
Human services 1,260
Arts, culture & humanities 959
Youth development 866
Religion-related 608
Community improvement 589
Philanthropy & grantmaking 568

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City Total giving
New York, NY $3.4B
Dallas, TX $1.7B
Wilmington, DE $1.6B
Chicago, IL $1.4B
Pittsburgh, PA $922.4M
Los Angeles, CA $797.8M
Boston, MA $741.2M
Houston, TX $568.9M
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