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Community Improvement and Capacity Building foundations

5,426 grantmaking foundations focused on community improvement and capacity building, ranked by recent giving reported to the IRS (about $56B combined).

Top foundations by giving

  1. Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
    Boston, MA
    $15B (2025)
  2. Silicon Valley Community Foundation
    Mountain View, CA
    $3.3B (2024)
  3. American Online Giving Foundation Inc
    Newark, DE
    $2.3B (2026)
  4. Gothic Corporation
    Durham, NC
    $2B (2025)
  5. Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
    New York, NY
    $1.5B (2024)
  6. University of Southern California
    Los Angeles, CA
    $1.1B (2025)
  7. Trustees of Columbia University
    New York, NY
    $1B (2025)
  8. Trustees of Boston University
    Boston, MA
    $940M (2025)
  9. The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Redwood City, CA
    $890M (2025)
  10. Florida Clinical Practice Association Inc
    Gainesville, FL
    $780M (2025)
  11. Northeastern University
    Boston, MA
    $690M (2025)
  12. Save the Children Federation Inc
    Fairfield, CT
    $630M (2024)
  13. University of Notre Dame Du Lac
    Notre Dame, IN
    $580M (2025)
  14. Gothic Hsp Corporation
    Durham, NC
    $570M (2025)
  15. Vanderbilt University
    Nashville, TN
    $570M (2025)
  16. Signatry Charitable Trust
    Sioux Falls, SD
    $570M (2024)
  17. Samaritans Purse
    Boone, NC
    $520M (2025)
  18. University of California San Francisco Foundation
    San Francisco, CA
    $500M (2025)
  19. Syracuse University
    Syracuse, NY
    $480M (2025)
  20. Cliftonlarsonallen Llp
    Raleigh, NC
    $460M (2022)
  21. Brown University of Providence
    Providence, RI
    $450M (2025)
  22. University Medical Service Association Inc
    Tampa, FL
    $390M (2025)
  23. Liberty University Inc
    Lynchburg, VA
    $380M (2025)
  24. Sandler Foundation
    San Francisco, CA
    $350M (2025)
  25. Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics Inc
    Gainesville, FL
    $330M (2025)

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