Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,047,182 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($6,106,751). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What National Association of Counties Research Foundation does
Mission
To ascertain, develop and distribute knowledge about county government for the education of the public generally and for the education and training of public officials and prospective public officials.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Nacorf delivers programming, technical assistance and thought leadership resources on a variety of pressing issues impacting member counties ranging from health, criminal justice, resiliency, economic development and human services. This work is supported by a network of nationally oriented private foundations and federal agencies. Current projects are in the areas of health, justice and public safety programs, human services, community and economic development and infrastructure and resiliency.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 $6.3M to $15M (+135%).
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: 2017 13% · 2018 12% · 2019 9% · 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $934k → $1.8M.
3 of 24 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $25M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Association of Counties). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION’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 COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 24% · 2019 68% · 2020 42% · 2021 60% · 2022 28% · 2023 27% — 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
33% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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 OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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.
Government funding NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.2M on record.
- Department of Commerce$3.2M
- Department of Defense$450k
- Department of Justice$250k
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
- Department of Transportation$75k
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 COUNTIES RESEARCH 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 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
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- National Association of Counties (Naco) · exempt
- Naco Financial Services Corp · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,047,182 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($6,106,751). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $20,047,182 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,106,751 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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