Maryland · Nonprofit
NAACP FOUNDATION
NAACP FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,759,320 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($5,095,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 105
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $15M
What NAACP Foundation does
Mission
The NAACP Foundation supports the mission of naacp by raising funds and promoting philanthropy to sustain civil rights and social justice advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The NAACP Foundation supports our civil rights and social justice work by raising funds and promoting philanthropy. The foundation board oversees our endowment, generating essential support for naacp's efforts. The foundation manages donor contributions to our scholarship fund, providing students with the most advanced educational opportunities. The contribution to epi, reported on part ix, line 1, is in support of the above activities.
$727,002 spentof which $727,002 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $727,002.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $6.2M (+476%).
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.
67% of NAACP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Derrick Johnson
Naacp president/CEO
Board chair
Dr Dwayne Proctor
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $243k → $985k.
21 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $65k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Columbus Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NAACP FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NAACP FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 funders by total. 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
NAACP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 NAACP FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 34% · 2019 40% · 2020 42% · 2021 65% · 2022 84% · 2023 29% — broadly stable.
“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
20% of NAACP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
55% of NAACP FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6.6M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
NAACP FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NAACP FOUNDATION
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc · exempt
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NAACP FOUNDATION: 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 NAACP FOUNDATION?
- NAACP FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,759,320 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($5,095,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NAACP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $14,759,320 in grants to NAACP FOUNDATION, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAACP FOUNDATION?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,095,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAACP FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 105 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing