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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,916 to it, the largest being CHESAPEAKE AND POTOMAC REGION OF NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS INC ($228,901). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$16M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$453k
Net assets
$15M
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Narcotics Anonymous World Services Inc does

Mission

Provider of communications and information for fellowship of narcotics anonymous. Maintenance of fellowship intellectual property worldwide.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Maintenance of correspondence with narcotics anonymous groups and service committees, printing and distribution of fellowship approved and world service conference approved literature and maintenance of the archives, files and fellowship intellectual property of narcotics anonymous worldwide.

    $13,615,910 spentof which $13,837,532 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,615,910.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.5M) Expenses 100 ($7.5M) Net assets 100 ($7.0M)2018 Revenue 93 ($8.0M) Expenses 109 ($8.2M) Net assets 97 ($6.8M)2019 Revenue 140 ($12M) Expenses 163 ($12M) Net assets 93 ($6.5M)2020 Revenue 76 ($6.5M) Expenses 107 ($8.1M) Net assets 71 ($5.0M)2021 Revenue 68 ($5.8M) Expenses 65 ($4.8M) Net assets 85 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 96 ($8.2M) Expenses 75 ($5.6M) Net assets 122 ($8.5M)2023 Revenue 116 ($9.9M) Expenses 102 ($7.7M) Net assets 159 ($11M)2024 Revenue 136 ($12M) Expenses 116 ($8.7M) Net assets 200 ($14M)2025 Revenue 189 ($16M) Expenses 202 ($15M) Net assets 214 ($15M)
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Revenue (189)Expenses (202)Net assets (214)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $21M (+40%).

$7.4M
$9.9M
$7.4M
$6.1M
$7.7M
$9.8M
$15M
$21M
$20M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

13% of NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
’17
−$211k
’18
−$292k
’19
−$1.5M
’20
$996k
’21
$2.6M
’22
$2.3M
’23
$2.9M
’24
$1.0M
’25
6.9
months of
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

Anthony Edmondson

Executive director

Board chair

Irene Crawley

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161515141616162019
Joined·+3+1+1+4+1+0+4+1
No longer listed·41221002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $21k → $100k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC’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

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC.

51%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2019 95% · 2020 69% · 2021 39% · 2022 69% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.

“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

17% of NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

IL
PA
MD
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve6.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $388 on record.

State$388
Top programs
  • Other Books & Periodicals$388

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC?
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,916 to it, the largest being CHESAPEAKE AND POTOMAC REGION OF NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS INC ($228,901). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $452,916 in grants to NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC?
CHESAPEAKE AND POTOMAC REGION OF NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS INC is the largest funder on record, with $228,901 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 9 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