California · Nonprofit
National Alopecia Areata Foundation
National Alopecia Areata Foundation (California) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,542,307 to it, the largest being SUNSHINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($310,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What National Alopecia Areata Foundation does
Mission
NAAF drives research to find a cure and accessible treatments for alopecia areata, supports those those impacted, and educates the public about the disease.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Awareness and support - provided emotional support and medical updates for persons suffering from Alopecia Areata. Services provided include monthly live webinars, a youth mentor program, support groups for parents and people living with alopecia areata, a robust website with resources including but not limited to patient brochures, school advisory toolkit as well as resources for insurance and finding local doctors who treat alopecia areata. Sponsored annual patient conference which featured support sessions, and which was attended by persons from the US and other countries. Walk For Alopecia held in September during Alopecia Areata Awareness month to raise funds and awareness of Alopecia areata. NAAFs Treatment Development programs funded medical research to find safe and effective treatments or cure for alopecia areata.
$2,804,461 spentof which $337,673 as grants$228,385 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,804,461.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $3.5M to $4.3M (+24%).
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.
61% of National Alopecia Areata Foundation’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. 1 of the last 6 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
Nicole Friedland
President & CEO
Board chair
Ann Hollins
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $137k → $439k.
21 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Alopecia Areata Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 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 Alopecia Areata Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
63% 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 Alopecia Areata Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 23% · 2019 43% · 2020 29% · 2021 19% · 2022 14% · 2023 14% — 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
43% of National Alopecia Areata Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
61% of National Alopecia Areata 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 $986k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside California, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 Alopecia Areata Foundation has grown faster 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 Alopecia Areata Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $255k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$255k
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 Alopecia Areata 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 33 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Alopecia Areata 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 National Alopecia Areata Foundation?
- National Alopecia Areata Foundation (California) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,542,307 to it, the largest being SUNSHINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($310,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does National Alopecia Areata Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $2,542,307 in grants to National Alopecia Areata Foundation, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Alopecia Areata Foundation?
- SUNSHINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Alopecia Areata Foundation 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 96 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