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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Our mission to achieve equity, political rights and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination and accelerate wellbeing, education, and economic security of black people and all persons of color.

$80k
Granted FY2023
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Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Human Services$292kCivil Rights$210kPublic Benefit$118kEmployment$80kReligion$45kCrime & Legal$30k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$80,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORKING AMERICA$80,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER: $30k → 11%TEXAS STATE CONFERENCE OF NAACP: $30k → 10%WORKING AMERICA: $80k → 14%MICHIGAN VOICES: $50k → 21%FAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA: $45k → 16%BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $80k → 13%PEACH CONCERNED CITIZENS INC: $8k → 18%FREEDOM ROC: $40k → 13%DETROIT CENTRAL BRANCH: $62k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
OH
PA
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Black Voters Matter Fund Inc

Our goal is to increase power in our communities through effective voting. We increase voter registration and help develop voting infrastructure and to pursue policies that expands access to the ballot.

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Elevated Voices Inc

Voter education around policy

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3
BlackPush Inc

Our organization combats gun violence works to turn out the vote pushes for laws to help previously incarcerated and issues related to social injustice.

Religion
4
Ballot Pa Action

Informed and educated the public and lawmakers about the benefits of including independent voters in Pennsylvania's primary elections.

Civil Rights
5
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
6
The Equal Voting Rights Institute

To protect and, where necessary, restore the primacy of all americans shared civil rights. the acr project exists to systematically sponsor litigation, file administrative complaints, participate in rulemaking, and educate both government…

Crime & Legal
7
Black American Political Association of California

Educate and advocacy

Civil Rights
8
Black Alliance for Just Immigration

The organization provides public education on the issues related to fair and just immigration policies.

Arts & Culture
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Civica Initiatives

Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions

Community Improvement
10
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective

We prioritize the needs of Black people through two programs: Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We believe that supporting mental healthcare, holding and creating space for vulnerability is a piece of how we free ourselves as…

Food & Nutrition
11
Election Freedom Inc

To promote and provide education related to protecting voting rights, strengthening our democracy, ballot access, the importance of free and fair elections, and a better future for the American people.

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12
Alabama Values

A nonpartisan grassroots communication organization that works to raise awareness and increase engagement around community issues in alabama by working directly with civic organizations advocating civic participation in communities across…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Righteous Organizing Collaborative; the most unlike its peers is Peach Concerned Citizens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $116,125 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLETHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE: $100,000 · OtherTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCENATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $88,450 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLEWORKING AMERICA: $80,000 · OtherWORKING AMERICANATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $62,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLEFREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $40,000 · OtherFREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVENATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $30,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE+4 more: $45,000 · Other+4 moreBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $80,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDIN…MICHIGAN VOICES: $50,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN VOICESPEACH CONCERNED CITIZENS INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsPEACH CONCERNED CITI…FAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA: $44,680 · ReligionABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER: $30,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$561,575Civil Rights$138,000Religion$44,680Crime & Legal$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORKING AMERICA: $80,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMICHIGAN VOICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA: $44,680 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $40,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPEACH CONCERNED CITIZENS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WORKING AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN VOICES ↗
  • Who funds FAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PEACH CONCERNED CITIZENS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Association for the Advancement of Colored People funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $154k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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