Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,272,544 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($850,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What National Academy of Social Insurance does
Mission
A non-partisan organization of leading experts on social insurance that advances solutions to challenges facing the nation by increasing public understanding of how social insurance contributes to economic security.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research - the academy is a convener of expert scholars (from our membership and beyond) to analyze key policy issues and offer policymakers independent, multi-stakeholder analyses and options. Academy staff analyzes social insurance policy issues both as individual scholars and by supporting study panels that analyze information and issue a consensus on policy options. The academy communicates its work to its members and the interested public through a variety of education forums that the staff or others organize, through website and print information, and through presentations.
$595,015 spent$350,524 earned by the program73% of program spendingMembership - the academy conducts an annual nomination process, holds an annual meeting, maintains an online database and directory of members, and keeps members (and the public) informed of opportunities to engage with academy events and research.
$118,436 spent14% of program spendingLeadership development - the academy provides opportunities for young people to enter the field of social insurance. As the primary organization of social insurance professionals, we connect today's leaders with those who will take the reins in coming years. The academy runs five distinct internship programs that each recruit talented students and young professionals and matches them with internship placements where they begin to make substantive contributions at organizations working to strengthen social insurance programs. There are now nearly 500 associate members of the academy - young and mid-career professionals who successfully completed one of the academy's leadership development programs. Past interns are now making significant contributions to social insurance policy research, advocacy, and implementation.
$103,476 spent$23,296 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $816,927.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $1.9M (+40%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
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
Rebecca Vallas
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Paul Van De Water
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $85k → $367k.
5 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
27% 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 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 72% · 2019 80% · 2020 36% · 2021 20% · 2022 43% · 2023 41% — 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
56% of NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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 ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187k 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.
Against its field
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
- Social Security Administration$169k
- Department of Labor$97k
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 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE: 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 ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE?
- NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,272,544 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($850,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,272,544 in grants to NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE 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.
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 37 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