Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,500 to it, the largest being Lumina Foundation for Education Inc ($99,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $177k
- Net assets
- $12M
What National Association of College and University Attorneys does
Mission
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meetings and continuing education: nacua hosts both virtual and in-person cle workshops and an annual conference-the industry's preeminent gathering of higher education practitioners. In addition, nacua hosts various webinars and online courses to support college and university attorneys in providing top-quality advice and counsel to member institutions and help their institutions comply with the law. Through these offerings, nacua provides opportunities for participants to both learn and stay current with various aspects of higher education law and to network and spend time with a community of peers.
$3,397,729 spent$2,954,355 earned by the program68% of program spendingMembership services: nacua provides a variety of electronic resources to inform college and university attorneys about developments in higher education law, to facilitate peer-to-peer learning and the exchange of knowledge and best practices, and to develop and nurture a vibrant, welcoming, and diverse professional community that reflects the breadth of nacua's member institutions. Nacua member services include: nacua's new cases and developments, nacuanotes, briefings, searchable legal resources library (substantive legal materials and sample forms and agreements), over 40 affinity groups (most of which have online communities), nacua career center, and nacuanet.
$1,518,867 spent$2,881,197 earned by the program30% of program spendingPublications: nacua publishes the journal of college and university law, the only peer-reviewed, academic journal in the united states exclusively devoted to higher education law. Additionally, nacua administers and publishes periodic benchmarking surveys of its member institutions.
$88,251 spent$1,500 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,004,847.
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 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $17M (+28%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS’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 OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
44% 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 OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS.
“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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.
- Membership in Organizations$4k
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 ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS: 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 ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,500 to it, the largest being Lumina Foundation for Education Inc ($99,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $176,500 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS?
- Lumina Foundation for Education Inc is the largest funder on record, with $99,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS 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 2 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