Maryland · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,607,096 to it, the largest being STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND ($1,700,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $44M
What National Association for the Advancement of Colored People does
Mission
Our mission to achieve equity, political rights and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination and accelerate wellbeing, education, and economic security of black people and all persons of color.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Civic engagement - through policy advocacy, partnership, research, and mobilization, our civic engagement work amplifies community voices with a focus on issue-based campaigns and voting rights.
$4,628,780 spentof which $154,000 as grants80% of program spendingUnit & membership operations - through field and membership, we build strategies and engage with communities across the nation. This includes recruitment, retention, and growth of our global membership, implementing initiatives and member benefits which enhance the member experience.
$932,288 spent$4,240,913 earned by the program16% of program spendingCommunications & marketing - policy advocacy and research are embedded in all aspects of the naacp's programmatic work. We assess policies impacting the experience of black people and all persons of color and educate and inform key constituencies. Similarly, our emphasis on research promotes actionable data, research, and engagement tools for communities.
$251,300 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,812,368.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $245k to $22M (+8849%).
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.
56% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% 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
Derrick Johnson
President and CEO
Board chair
Leon Russell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $403k → $938k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $497k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE’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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 69% · 2022 81% · 2023 75% — 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
20% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 22% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 152 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc · exempt
- NAACP Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,607,096 to it, the largest being STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND ($1,700,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $4,607,096 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE?
- STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 18 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