Virginia · Nonprofit
CNA CORPORATION
CNA CORPORATION (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,791,172 to it, the largest being METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS ($1,119,956). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $62M
What Cna Corporation does
Mission
Cna is a non-profit research organization that operates the center for naval analyses, a federally funded research center that has supported the navy and marine corps for nearly seventy years, and the institute for public research that provides support to a broad range of government clients in education, health care and public health, homeland security, human capital management and air traffic management. Cna specializes in objective, empirical research and analysis to help decision makers develop sound policies, make better-informed decisions, and manage programs more effectively.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The operational warfighting (ops) division focuses on improving the ability of the department of the navy to organize, plan, train, and execute at the operational level of warfare. Ops analysis typically links wargaming, concept development, hypothesis testing, and exercise and operational assessment into an iterative cycle. The division's research emphasizes naval integration, joint and combined operations, cyber effects, intelligence support and special operations.
$45,809,895 spent35% of program spendingSafety & security (sas) provides analysis and guidance to support evolving standards and practices and gives recommendations for improving decision-making at all levels during crisis operations. We work with senior decision-makers in federal, state, and local agencies as well as with members of the homeland security professional community of law enforcement officials, firefighters, public health officials, and emergency medical personnel. (see on schedule o)
$30,718,480 spent23% of program spendingThe systems, tactics and force development (stfd) division provides classical warfare analyses to the navy and dod focused on systems and platforms at the tactical level for great power competition. Stfd conducts quantitative analyses of fleet systems and multi-mission platforms to develop performance estimates against china, russia and other threats. The division analyzes and assesses combinations of networks, sensors, weapons, and platforms to provide maritime warfighting capabilities in all warfare areas, under realistic conditions for current operations and future-force architectures.
$18,490,750 spent14% of program spendingOther programs (see schedule o)
$37,102,329 spent28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $132,121,454.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $75M to $155M (+105%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 98% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Katherine Mcgrady
President & CEO, trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $277k.
From the IRS filings of CNA CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CNA CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CNA CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 75% · 2022 51% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of CNA CORPORATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CNA CORPORATION draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like CNA CORPORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CNA CORPORATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CNA CORPORATION?
- CNA CORPORATION (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,791,172 to it, the largest being METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS ($1,119,956). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CNA CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,791,172 in grants to CNA CORPORATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CNA CORPORATION?
- METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,119,956 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CNA CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing