Maryland · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION
NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION (Maryland) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,952,422 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($34,890,472). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 109
- Grants received
- $57M
- Net assets
- $0
What National Abortion Federation does
Mission
The mission of the National Abortion Federation (naf) is to unite, represent, serve, and support abortion providers in delivering patient-centered, evidence-based care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership services: naf sets the standards for quality abortion care through our evidence-based clinical policy guidelines (cpgs). First published in 1996, naf's cpgs are updated and reissued annually in order to help providers stay current in abortion practice and provide the highest quality abortion care. Our quality assurance and improvement (qai) program includes site visits to assess members compliance with the cpgs and provides technical assistance and training to help providers meet regulatory requirements. We develop and disseminate research-based protocols and clinical publications to our members on current medical issues. Our group purchasing program helps clinics stay open so women can access quality abortion care.training and professional education: naf provides the leading abortion-specific ongoing program of accredited continuing medical education for physicians and other health care professionals. In addition to our annual meeting and our regional training programs, naf also sponsors other workshops and web-based resources on clinically relevant topics. Naf's education programs are recognized by the accreditation council for continuing medical education and are…
$308,253 spentof which $308,253 as grants$6,338 earned by the program100% of program spendingAccess initiative
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $308,253.
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 $19M to $5.7M (−70%).
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: 2020 0% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Brittany Fonteno
President & CEO
Board chair
Melissa Grant
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $5.1M → $7.4M.
30 of 109 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $3.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Abortion Federation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 109 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
NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 65% · 2019 61% · 2020 87% · 2021 80% · 2022 50% · 2023 38% — 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
56% of NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.
Organizations like NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 15 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Naf Hotline Fund · exempt
- National Abortion Federation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION: 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 NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION?
- NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION (Maryland) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,952,422 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($34,890,472). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION have?
- IRS filings report 109 organizations giving $56,952,422 in grants to NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $34,890,472 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 109 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