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From the Philanthropy 400: Wall Street Bonanza

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November 1, 2017 | Read Time: 4 minutes

Among the more than 290 organizations that completed a survey for The Chronicles Philanthropy 400 ranking, these nonprofits received at least some share of their gifts in the form of stocks.

Philanthropy 400 Rank Organization 2016 Private Support % of Private Support From Stock Gifts
NA Ipas $29,967,830 87.1%
9 Silicon Valley Community Foundation $1,383,888,000 70.4%
237 Omaha Community Foundation $120,575,054 68.3%
NA Community Foundation for Northeast Florida $62,200,537 67.8%
6 Schwab Charitable Fund $1,922,695,881 62.8%
63 Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund $371,072,679 62.7%
1 Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund $4,076,302,537 60.9%
NA Denver Foundation $52,279,334 60.6%
79 Renaissance Charitable Foundation $320,461,078 58.4%
248 U.S. Charitable Gift Trust $115,992,451 55.9%
50 Foundation for the Carolinas $498,065,318 55.8%
203 California Community Foundation $138,352,000 51.5%
257 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta $110,532,305 49.2%
209 Arizona Community Foundation $135,020,819 48.8%
27 Pew Charitable Trusts $694,860,174 48.7%
56 Jewish Communal Fund $434,991,130 47.6%
NA Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham $19,900,427 45.5%
289 Rochester Area Community Foundation $98,668,622 45.1%
14 National Philanthropic Trust $1,006,225,727 44.6%
54 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation $454,902,282 44.4%
271 Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego $104,563,602 43.9%
272 Boston Foundation $104,152,103 40.7%
10 Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program $1,278,868,232 39.2%
169 Greater Houston Community Foundation $161,495,240 36.0%
NA Minneapolis Foundation $53,341,705 33.6%
211 Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles $133,819,000 32.9%
21 American Endowment Foundation $824,956,056 32.6%
8 National Christian Foundation $1,532,256,000 30.8%
127 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston $212,497,879 30.6%
NA Los Angeles County Museum of Art $35,646,565 27.6%
267 Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties $105,723,622 24.1%
362 Dayton Foundation $78,192,419 22.9%
NA Pittsburgh Foundation $37,047,970 22.6%
174 Oregon Health & Science University $156,960,646 21.6%
374 Orange County Community Foundation $76,495,203 21.2%
143 Susan G. Komen $192,956,670 21.1%
NA Cleveland Foundation $36,875,729 19.4%
197 University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center $140,314,035 18.8%
299 Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan $95,414,399 18.1%
206 DonorsTrust $137,520,000 17.5%
NA Cedars-Sinai Medical Center $57,433,551 17.2%
315 Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America $91,781,322 17.2%
161 Tulsa Community Foundation $172,821,235 15.9%
391 Sierra Club Foundation $71,884,506 15.1%
338 United Jewish Foundation and Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit $85,277,849 14.8%
310 Communities Foundation of Texas $93,124,017 14.4%
113 Metropolitan Museum of Art $241,896,154 14.2%
261 Community Foundation of New Jersey $108,166,134 12.6%
NA Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens $43,004,458 12.2%
195 Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago $141,186,844 11.5%
344 Aspen Institute $82,854,468 10.5%
NA Rhode Island Foundation $59,969,221 10.3%
243 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation $117,244,182 9.8%
NA Whitney Museum of American Art $62,413,000 9.8%
241 Ducks Unlimited $118,690,925 9.3%
NA San Diego Zoo $65,747,541 8.8%
108 Oregon Community Foundation $255,172,559 8.8%
33 University of California at San Francisco $595,940,070 8.4%
177 Environmental Defense Fund $155,540,849 8.0%
NA Jewish National Fund $62,700,627 8.0%
126 Mount Sinai Health System $213,570,194 7.9%
276 San Diego Foundation $103,026,632 7.6%
101 Smithsonian Institution $269,878,400 7.2%
186 Boston Children’s Hospital $149,881,259 6.9%
337 Seattle Children’s Hospital Foundation and Guild Association $85,356,449 6.6%
345 Philadelphia Museum of Art $81,263,246 6.6%
334 WNET $86,362,115 6.5%
NA Greater Boston Food Bank $66,941,807 6.4%
NA New York Public Library $56,603,843 5.9%
368 Partners in Health $77,347,532 5.5%
68 Doctors Without Borders USA $357,438,744 5.4%
258 Northwell Health Foundation $110,501,249 5.0%
74 Save the Children $343,702,250 5.0%
255 Charities Aid Foundation America $112,581,139 4.6%
128 Teach for America $211,285,377 4.4%
NA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston $53,204,501 4.0%
NA American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science $66,982,000 3.9%
311 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art $92,615,271 3.9%
158 UJA-Federation of New York $175,930,000 3.7%
NA American Jewish World Service $68,587,770 3.6%
357 Oxfam America $78,818,402 3.2%
283 Trust for Public Land $100,764,309 3.0%
NA Year Up $58,394,374 2.7%
17 Habitat for Humanity International $950,000,000 2.6%
64 CARE $364,936,079 2.6%
NA Children’s Hospital Los Angeles $54,667,684 2.5%
359 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation $78,665,749 2.5%
100 Tides Foundation $270,080,343 2.4%
NA Community Foundation for Greater New Haven $47,170,015 2.3%
98 Alzheimer’s Association $271,563,777 2.3%
354 Heritage Foundation $79,079,189 2.3%
138 JDRF International $196,804,267 2.3%
199 City of Hope $139,718,944 2.3%
94 Carter Center $281,438,007 2.2%
77 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center $323,202,582 1.9%
275 American Society for Technion-Israel Institute of Technology $103,294,031 1.9%
393 National Audubon Society $71,329,108 1.7%
NA Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America $67,446,251 1.6%
82 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute $317,925,589 1.6%
302 Henry Ford Health System $94,404,607 1.6%
NA Plan International USA $37,562,749 1.5%
263 Navigators $107,754,380 1.5%
259 Heifer International $110,289,116 1.4%
155 World Wildlife Fund $179,472,620 1.3%
355 InterVarsity Christian Fellowship $78,950,374 1.3%
95 Young Life $278,137,336 1.3%
NA Hospital for Special Surgery $46,901,978 1.3%
264 DonorsChoose.org $107,473,914 1.2%
307 Fellowship of Christian Athletes $94,023,718 1.2%
132 National Multiple Sclerosis Society $206,041,625 1.1%
212 Mercy Corps $132,846,542 1.1%
7 Salvation Army $1,882,744,000 1.1%
107 American Civil Liberties Union Foundation $260,670,199 1.1%
NA Mental Health America $67,450,457 1.0%
69 Catholic Relief Services $354,786,789 1.0%
234 North Texas Food Bank $121,737,163 1.0%
NA National Wildlife Federation $62,036,863 1.0%
160 Humane Society of the United States $174,583,075 1.0%
47 Cru $509,955,216 1.0%
NA Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation $59,770,587 0.9%
23 World Vision $786,014,143 0.9%
109 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee $248,823,471 0.9%
365 Mercy Ships $77,807,654 0.8%
106 Shriners Hospitals for Children $265,292,000 0.8%
236 City Harvest $121,261,698 0.8%
NA Arthritis Foundation $63,432,759 0.8%
246 Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties $116,184,330 0.7%
149 Wycliffe Bible Translators $186,084,000 0.7%
319 Billy Graham Evangelistic Association $91,137,190 0.7%
12 ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital $1,129,523,176 0.7%
87 Wounded Warrior Project $302,707,725 0.7%
105 Rotary Foundation of Rotary International $265,667,546 0.7%
341 National Academy of Sciences $83,281,291 0.7%
41 United States Fund for Unicef $566,169,095 0.6%
28 American Heart Association $683,171,667 0.6%
187 Junior Achievement Worldwide $148,865,619 0.6%
304 Birthright Israel Foundation $94,141,871 0.5%
154 Scholarship America $180,332,512 0.5%
325 Conservation Fund $89,368,230 0.5%
91 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society $285,638,088 0.5%
NA Capital Area Food Bank $63,972,599 0.4%
136 American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals $197,064,307 0.3%
34 Compassion International $592,465,017 0.3%
213 Second Harvest Heartland $132,777,317 0.3%
222 Unbound $127,382,454 0.3%
260 Medical Teams International $108,954,031 0.3%
24 American Cancer Society $779,168,000 0.3%
NA ALS Association $59,646,328 0.2%
363 Wikimedia Foundation $78,151,457 0.2%
NA Breast Cancer Research Foundation $66,003,474 0.2%
182 Children International $151,658,132 0.2%
NA Maryland Food Bank $57,728,641 0.2%
90 Population Services International $289,451,122 0.2%
280 Project Hope/People-to-People Health Foundation $101,377,931 0.1%
76 Make-a-Wish Foundation $329,083,705 0.1%
230 American Diabetes Association $124,596,288 0.1%
152 Helen Keller International $181,625,115 0.1%
250 United Service Organizations $114,964,688 0.1%
292 Atlanta Community Food Bank $97,205,931 0.1%
124 Project Orbis International $214,631,000 0.1%
356 Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation $78,827,657 0.1%
324 World Resources Institute $89,407,957 0.1%
18 Americares Foundation $914,386,527 0.1%
170 March of Dimes Foundation $161,433,520 0.1%
352 Harvesters-the Community Food Network $79,671,141 0.1%
NA Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute $46,349,337 0.1%
117 Matthew 25 Ministries $233,183,814 0.1%
330 Mid-Ohio Foodbank $86,669,654 0.1%

NA: These groups are not ranked on the Philanthropy 400.


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Senior Editor, Special Projects

Drew is a longtime magazine writer and editor who joined the Chronicle of Philanthropy in 2014. He previously worked at Washingtonian magazine and was a principal editor for Teacher and MHQ, which were both selected as finalists for a National Magazine Award for general excellence. In 2005. he was one of 18 journalists selected for a yearlong Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan.

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Peter Olsen-Phillips worked with Reporters and editors on the data that helped to power the editorial team’s work for The Chronicle of Philanthropy. He collected and analyzed the financial data behind some of The Chronicle’s annual reports — including surveys on nonprofit endowments, corporations’ charitable giving, and the Philanthropy 400, The Chronicle’s annual ranking of the charities that raise the most in private donations. Prior to joining The Chronicle, Peter covered money in politics as a Reporter at the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Georgetown University graduate.