Foundation directory

Profiles of U.S. private foundations, built from their IRS Form 990-PF filings: what each one actually paid in grants, its typical grant size, where its money goes, and its largest awards. 10,813 foundations currently meet the activity bar for a public profile.

Largest foundations by grants paid

Gates Foundation$6.3B · 4,974 grants · median $500K
Lilly Endowment Inc$6.1B · 4,093 grants · median $50K
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation$2.4B · 815 grants · median $503.1K
Pfizer Patient Assistance Foundation Inc$1.5B · 45 grants · median $2.7K
The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc$1B · 203 grants · median $1.5M
The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust$886.6M · 1,164 grants · median $403.4K
The Ford Foundation$844.7M · 4,007 grants · median $100K
Sergey Brin Family Foundation C/o Pacific Foundation Services$698.9M · 170 grants · median $1M
Good Ventures Foundation$664.2M · 1,058 grants · median $138.5K
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation$625M · 2,001 grants · median $150K
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation$622.6M · 3,093 grants · median $40K
WK Kellogg Foundation$590.3M · 3,597 grants · median $100K
Walton Family Foundation Inc$562.3M · 1,020 grants · median $200K
The Andrew W Mellon Foundation$555M · 848 grants · median $500K
The Sherwood Foundation$552.5M · 1,620 grants · median $80K
Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation$484.7M · 132 grants · median $820K
Foundation to Promote Open Society$481.5M · 738 grants · median $257.2K
Musk Foundation$474.3M · 55 grants · median $1M
The Duke Endowment$473.7M · 845 grants · median $200K
Freedom Together Foundation$470M · 595 grants · median $500K
The Marcus Foundation Inc$454.9M · 442 grants · median $300K
Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation$403M · 920 grants · median $200K
H&h Evergreen Foundation$401.8M · 11 grants · median $100K
Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc$372.6M · 56 grants · median $1.7M

Foundations that accept applications

Roughly 7 in 10 large foundations report giving only to preselected organizations. The rest publish how to apply on their 990-PF filings — contact, materials, and deadlines. Browse foundations open to applications.

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Grouped by each foundation's top recipient state on its 990-PF filings.

About this data

Every U.S. private foundation files a Form 990-PF with the IRS listing the grants it paid. This directory aggregates those public e-filings per foundation. It covers private foundations only (community foundations file Form 990 instead), reflects filings rather than real-time activity, and refreshes weekly as new filings enter the corpus. Foundations below the activity bar for a public page are still searchable inside GrantCue.