Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NASPA FOUNDATION
NASPA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,016 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($57,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $436k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Naspa Foundation does
Mission
The Naspa Foundation's mission is to support naspa's mission and legacy. The foundation fulfills its mission by awarding scholarships for aspiring and current student affairs professions to attend naspa (see schedule o for continuation)events, awarding research grants for student affairs professionals to study emergent trends within the field, and supporting awards of recognition for exceptional work in the field of student affairs.the Naspa Foundations guiding principles are:- connecting the present with the future- celebrating achievement- supporting research and best practices- honoring history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Naspa Foundation program service offerings fall into five primary categories: scholarships - the jim rhatigan fellowship and other scholarships provide access to naspa events for aspiring and current student affairs professionals looking to further their student affairs education. Access scholarships were created to support membership dues and financial assistance for attendance to professional development events.grants - the Naspa Foundation supports the discovery of new knowledge through research and innovation in the field of student affairs. This is achieved through a continued commitment to funding selected submitted proposals for research grants such as the channing briggs small research grant.awards - the Naspa Foundation funds four named awards conferred on exceptional student affairs educators and practitioners at all level of the profession: - hardee dissertation of the year award - ruth strang research award - robert h. Shaffer award for academic excellence as a graduate faculty member - george d. Kuh award for outstanding contribution to literature and/or researchthe Naspa Foundation also recognizes exceptional student affairs practitioners with the awards below.…
$164,333 spentof which $76,402 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $164,333.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.7M to $2.2M (+27%).
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.
66% of NASPA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Paul Bennion
Naspa foundation chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 NASPA FOUNDATION’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
NASPA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 NASPA FOUNDATION.
“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.
Where its funders are
97% of NASPA 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NASPA FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NASPA 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NASPA 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 NASPA FOUNDATION?
- NASPA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,016 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($57,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NASPA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $59,016 in grants to NASPA FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of NASPA FOUNDATION?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASPA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 5 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