Organizations That Have Ranked Among Top 400 Groups Each Year Since 1991
October 17, 2010 | Read Time: 5 minutes
Alzheimer’s Association (Chicago)
American Cancer Society (Atlanta)
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science (New York)
American Diabetes Association (Alexandria, Va.)
American Heart Association (Dallas)
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis)
American Red Cross (Washington)
American Society for Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (New York)
AmeriCares Foundation (Stamford, Conn.)
Arizona State University at TempeArthritis Foundation (Atlanta)
Auburn University (Ala.)
Baylor College of Medicine (Houston)
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (Philadelphia)
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (Charlotte, N.C.)
Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.)
Boston University
Boy Scouts of America (Irving, Tex.)
Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Atlanta)
Brandeis University (Waltham, Mass.)
Brother’s Brother Foundation (Pittsburgh)
Brown University (Providence, R.I.)
California Institute of Technology (Pasadena)
Campus Crusade for Christ International (Orlando, Fla.)
CARE (Atlanta)
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh)
Carter Center (Atlanta)
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland)
Catholic Relief Services (Baltimore)
ChildFund International (Richmond, Va.)
Children International (Kansas City, Mo.)
Christian Appalachian Project (Lancaster, Ky.)
Christian Broadcasting Network (Virginia Beach)
City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.)
Columbia University (New York)
Columbus Foundation (Ohio)
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Compassion International (Colorado Springs)
Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Covenant House (New York)
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (Bethesda, Md.)
Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.)
Disabled American Veterans (Cold Spring, Ky.)
Ducks Unlimited (Memphis)
Duke University (Durham, N.C.)
Easter Seals (Chicago)
Emory University (Atlanta)
Environmental Defense (New York)
Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home (Boys Town, Neb.)
Feed the Children (Oklahoma City)
Feeding America (Chicago) 1
Food for the Poor (Coconut Creek, Fla.)
George Washington University (Washington)
Georgetown University (Washington)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
Gifts In Kind International (Alexandria, Va.)
Girl Scouts of the USA (New York)
Girls Incorporated (New York)
Goodwill Industries International (Rockville, Md.)
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation (Mo.)
Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.)
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (New York)
Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)
Indiana University (Bloomington)
Institute of International Education (New York)
Iowa State University (Ames)
Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles
Jewish Federation/Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago
Junior Achievement Worldwide (Colorado Springs)
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (New York)
KCET/Community Television of Southern California (Los Angeles)
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (White Plains, N.Y.)
MAP International (Brunswick, Ga.)
March of Dimes Foundation (White Plains, N.Y.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)
Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Metropolitan Opera Association (New York)
Michigan State University (East Lansing)
Muscular Dystrophy Association (Tucson)
Museum of Modern Art (New York)
National Audubon Society (New York)
National Multiple Sclerosis Society (New York)
National Wildlife Federation (Reston, Va.)
Natural Resources Defense Council (New York)
Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.)
New York Community Trust
New York Public Library
New York University
North Carolina State University (Raleigh)
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Ohio State University (Columbus)
Oregon Health & Science University (Portland)
Paralyzed Veterans of America (Washington)
Pennsylvania State University (University Park)
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (New York)
Princeton University (N.J.)
Project Hope/People-to-People Health Foundation (Millwood, Va.)
Purdue University at West Lafayette (Ind.)
Rice University (Houston)
Rockefeller University (New York)
Rotary Foundation of Rotary International (Evanston, Ill.)
Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Salvation Army (Alexandria, Va.)
San Francisco Foundation
Save the Children (Westport, Conn.)
Scholarship America (St. Peter, Minn.)
Shriners Hospitals For Children (Tampa, Fla.)
Smithsonian Institution (Washington)
Southern Methodist University (Dallas)
Special Olympics (Washington)
Stanford University (Calif.)
Texas A&M University (College Station)
The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)
Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana (Trinity Broadcasting Network) (Calif.)
Tufts University (Medford, Mass.)
Tulane University (New Orleans)
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York
United Jewish Foundation and Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)
United Negro College Fund (Fairfax, Va.)
United States Fund for Unicef (New York)
United Way Worldwide (Alexandria, Va.) 2
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Arizona (Tucson)
University of California at Berkeley
University of California at Davis
University of California at Irvine
University of California at Los Angeles
University of California at San Diego (La Jolla)
University of California at San Francisco
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati
University of Florida (Gainesville)
University of Georgia (Athens)
University of Illinois (Urbana)
University of Iowa (Iowa City)
University of Kansas (Lawrence)
University of Kentucky (Lexington)
University of Louisville (Ky.)
University of Maryland at College Park
University of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
University of Missouri at Columbia
University of Nebraska (Lincoln)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame (Ind.)
University of Oklahoma (Norman)
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
University of PittsburghUniversity of Rochester (N.Y.)
University of South Carolina at Columbia
University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
University of Tennessee System (Knoxville)
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
University of Utah (Salt Lake City)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
University of Washington (Seattle)
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Vanderbilt University (Nashville)
Virginia Tech (Blacksburg)
Volunteers of America (Alexandria, Va.)
Washington State University (Pullman)
Washington University in St. Louis
West Virginia University (Morgantown)
WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston)
WNET.org (New York)
World Vision (Federal Way, Wash.)
World Wildlife Fund (Washington)
Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
Yeshiva University (New York)
YMCA (Chicago)
Young Life (Colorado Springs)
Notes:1 America’s Second Harvest was founded in 1976 and helped start other food banks across the country. It merged with Food Chain in 2000 and became Feeding America in 2008.
2 Until 2005, United Way’s local chapters were counted separately in the Philanthropy 400; since then United Way has been consolidated into a single entry, United Way Worldwide.