Funder Intelligence Filter Guide

A guide to every filter available on the Funder Intelligence page. Use these to narrow the list of foundations down to the ones most relevant to your work.

Filters are grouped into three tabs: Foundation, Financials, and Grant Recipients. You can combine filters from any tab — results always match every active filter (logical AND). A badge on each tab shows how many filters are currently active in that group. Click Reset to clear all filters in every tab at once.

General behavior

Text filters match when every word you type appears anywhere in the field, regardless of case. For example, searching a name for community foundation returns rows that contain both community and foundation, in any order. Partial words are matched too (searching found matches Foundation).
Text filters wait for 3 characters before sending a search. Shorter input is ignored until you clear the box.
Select filters apply immediately when you pick an option. Open the dropdown to clear or change a selection.
Range filters (Min/Max) accept numbers. Leave either side empty for an open-ended range.
Multi-select filters apply immediately and match any row with at least one of the selected values.

Foundation tab

Filters that describe the foundation itself — who it is and where it’s located.

Name

Text search on the foundation’s display name. Every word you type must appear somewhere in the name — order and case don’t matter, and partial words count.

Examples — searching community foundation:

✅ Seattle Community Foundation
✅ Foundation for Community Health (order doesn’t matter)
❌ The Community Fund (missing “foundation”)
❌ Greater Arts Foundation (missing “community”)

EIN

Filter by the foundation’s Employer Identification Number. You can type the EIN with or without the dash (for example 85-1234567 or 851234567) — the filter strips non-digits before searching, so formatting doesn’t matter. Partial EINs are supported (typing 85 returns every EIN containing 85).

City

Text search on the foundation’s headquarters city.

State

Dropdown of U.S. state abbreviations. Pick one state to show only foundations headquartered there.

Zip Code

Text search on the foundation’s headquarters zip code. Partial zip codes are supported.

Focus Areas

Multi-select of the foundation’s declared focus areas (Education, Healthcare, Arts and Culture, and so on). A foundation matches if it has any of the selected focus areas — selecting more areas broadens results, not narrows them.

Keyword Search

Full-text search across the foundation’s mission statement, grant purposes, and past grant recipient names. Unlike the Name filter, this understands natural-language queries:

Words are matched by their root form (stem), so different grammatical variants match each other. Searching educate also matches education, educating, and educators; searching running matches run and ran.
Quoted phrases are treated as exact phrases: "early childhood" only matches that phrase.
A leading excludes a term: education -religious.
or combines alternatives: cancer or oncology.
Common English stop words (the, and, etc.) are ignored.

Use this when you want to find foundations that fund a particular kind of work, even if it’s not in their formal focus areas.

Multiple words — searching supporting education (both words required by default, each matched by its root form):

✅ Mission containing “…supports educational programs for underserved youth…” (supports and educational share roots with your terms)
✅ Grant purpose “…to educate young leaders through supportive mentorship…” (educate and supportive share roots; order doesn’t matter)
❌ Mission containing “…funds academic scholarships and community outreach…” (no form of “support” or “education”)
❌ Mission containing “…supports affordable housing initiatives…” (has “support” but no form of “education”)

Quoted phrase — searching "early childhood" (the words must appear together, in order):

✅ Mission containing “…invests in early childhood development…”
❌ Mission containing “…our earliest grants focused on childhood literacy…” (both words appear, but not as a phrase)

Excluding a term with - — searching education -religious:

✅ Mission containing “…advances public education and civic engagement…”
❌ Mission containing “…supports education rooted in religious traditions…” (matches education but is excluded by religious)

Alternatives with or — searching cancer or oncology (either term is enough):

✅ Mission containing “…funds pediatric cancer research…”
✅ Mission containing “…supports oncology clinics in rural communities…”
❌ Mission containing “…improves cardiovascular health outcomes…” (neither term appears)

Financials tab

Filters based on the most recent 990 filing.

Grants Awarded

Range filter (Min/Max) on the total dollars the foundation paid out in grants during its most recent filing year. Enter a minimum to find larger funders, a maximum to find smaller ones, or both to target a size bracket.

Assets

Range filter (Min/Max) on the foundation’s total assets from its most recent filing.

Donor-Advised Fund

Yes/No dropdown. Select Yes to show only foundations that operate donor-advised funds, or No to exclude them.

Grant Recipients tab

Filter foundations by the grants they’ve awarded in the past. A foundation matches when at least one of its past grants matches all of the criteria you set here. This is the most useful tab for finding foundations that have funded organizations like yours or in your geography.

Recipient Name

Text search on past grant recipient names. Every word you type must appear somewhere in the recipient’s name — order and case don’t matter, and partial words count.

Examples — searching youth center:

✅ Downtown Youth Center
✅ Center for Youth Development (order doesn’t matter)
❌ Youth Mentorship Program (missing “center”)
❌ Community Health Center (missing “youth”)

City

Text search on the city of past grant recipients.

State

Dropdown of U.S. state abbreviations. Select a state to find foundations that have made grants to recipients in that state.

Zip Code

Text search on the zip code of past grant recipients.

Combining filters

Filters across tabs stack. For example, to find mid-sized foundations in Texas that fund education and have previously made grants in Austin, you would set:

Foundation → State = TX, Focus Areas = Education
Financials → Grants Awarded Min = 500000, Max = 5000000
Grant Recipients → City = Austin

Results update automatically as you change filters. When you have a filter set you want to keep, use Save Search (top right) to return to it later.