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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $915,749 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS ($604,545). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$48M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$916k
Net assets
$37M
3/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What National Association of Corporate Directors does

Mission

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Marketing & communications - marketing and communications works primarily to enhance nacd's position in the marketplace by creating awareness for our membership, research, and educational programs. They also lead our communications efforts by coordinating our press outreach, as well as our efforts around social media and advertising.

    $10,570,414 spent
    29% of program spending
  2. Educational programs - nacd conducts leading-edge, interactive seminars and conferences (both traditional in-person and virtual) designed for both directors and executive management. Nacd also offers its full curriculum as in-house educational programs that can be individually tailored to meet specific needs.

    $8,540,689 spent$6,884,126 earned by the program
    23% of program spending
  3. Membership - provides services to more than 23,000 members & various customers. Membership benefits include: continuing director education, benchmarking research in numerous board and committee practices, thought leadership publications, practical handbooks for committees and boards, director search services, nacd directorship certification, and other resources.

    $7,152,532 spent$30,765,309 earned by the program
    19% of program spending
  4. Research and publications - provides educational publications designed to elevate individual and board performance. These publications include the nacd directorship magazine and our daily publication, directors daily.

    $4,197,801 spent$7,096,869 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  5. Chapters - nacd has 20 chapters providing events in more than 35 cities. They develop world class programming which feature leading industry experts and public and private company director speakers, providing in-depth information on timely topics and peer-to-peer dialogue about critical boardroom issues.

    $4,058,262 spent
    11% of program spending
  6. Board advisory services - provides educational programs for companies that are customized around the board's needs as they relate to corporate governance issues.

    $1,807,725 spent$1,253,845 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  7. Certification

    $745,883 spent
    2% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,073,306.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($32M) Expenses 100 ($29M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 109 ($35M) Expenses 115 ($34M) Net assets 101 ($17M)2019 Revenue 119 ($38M) Expenses 126 ($37M) Net assets 117 ($19M)2020 Revenue 93 ($30M) Expenses 109 ($32M) Net assets 111 ($18M)2021 Revenue 119 ($38M) Expenses 102 ($30M) Net assets 147 ($24M)2022 Revenue 120 ($38M) Expenses 129 ($38M) Net assets 133 ($22M)2023 Revenue 140 ($45M) Expenses 143 ($42M) Net assets 173 ($29M)2024 Revenue 147 ($47M) Expenses 156 ($46M) Net assets 197 ($33M)2025 Revenue 149 ($48M) Expenses 164 ($48M) Net assets 221 ($37M)
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Revenue (149)Expenses (164)Net assets (221)Peer revenue range

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 $60M to $80M (+33%).

$36M
$37M
$42M
$40M
$55M
$53M
$60M
$80M
$84M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (30% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 286 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.7M
’17
$1.0M
’18
$921k
’19
−$2.1M
’20
$8.3M
’21
$669k
’22
$2.8M
’23
$1.4M
’24
−$202k
’25
3.4
months of
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

Peter Gleason

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Sue Cole

Trans. Chair to board member 05/25

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed232122252223212020
Joined·+1+2+6+4+5+4+2+2
No longer listed·31374632
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $235k → $135k.

2 of 15 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.

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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 ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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

89% 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 CORPORATE DIRECTORS.

66%
largest funder
78%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 88% · 2019 57% · 2021 100% · 2022 68% · 2023 63% — 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

0% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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 OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 10 states in all.

ME
NY
MA
OH
AZ
AR
NC
DC
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS's revenue grew 49% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−0% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 132 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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In Virginia

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Nacd Corporate Directors Institute · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS?
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $915,749 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS ($604,545). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $915,749 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS?
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS is the largest funder on record, with $604,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 15 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