Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,700 to it, the largest being THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION ($82,891). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $222k
- Net assets
- $76M
What National Association of Social Workers does
Mission
The National Association of Social Workers, inc.'s (nasw) exempt purpose is to improve and extend the social work profession through advancement of sound social policies and programs, provision of membership services, and creation and maintenance of professional standards and to ensure the professional development of members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy/program: preparing and disseminating issue briefs on a wide range of topics including substance use, ptsd, elder abuse, adverse childhood experiences, aging, and social work and law enforcement; and continuing to provide updates to the field on topics including the cms physician fee schedule, medicaid and medicare, telehealth flexibilities, the budget reconciliation bill; and the affordable care act; garnering wo stipends ($10,000) from the america public health association champion of change program. Completing and disseminating practice standards on school social work and clinical social work; presenting at national conferences; continuing to participate in national reimbursement coding meetings for health care providers; and providing technical assistance to social workers through "hour of private practice' conference calls and other means preparing and disseminating a blueprint of public policy priorities for the 119th congress; attending the democratic national convention for meetings with policy makers about the mental health and substance use crises and the need for a more diverse mental health workforce; working with congressional champions to introduce a social…
of which $15,752 as grants$37,961,130 earned by the programNmc:- provided technical assistance to members, partners, employers and chapters. - served more than 110,000 social workers and social work students with quality national and state-based programming. Increased regular members. - published 4 social work advocates magazines, introducing extra content by email. Produced 15 podcasts on eco-social work, disaster recovery, domestic violence, suicide grief and more. Hosted facebook live events on social work compensation, self-care and the interstate compact.- published a weekly members-only newsletter and a daily sw smartbrief headline digest.- attracted 14 million visits to socialworkers.org and increased total nasw social media followers to 500,000+. Reached 1.8 million social work talks podcast downloads. - produced annual social work month campaign related posts reached a potential 429 million people in march, according to meltwater news and social media monitoring service. The most looked at social media post was the msn article on nasw ceo dr. Estreet's column in salon and the care right center post. More than 163,000 people visited nasw's social work month website. - provided an online discussion community, a research library,…
Nasw press:published five, quarterly, scholarly journals 1. Social work (flagship journal of nasw)2. Children & schools3. Health & social work4. Social work research5. Social work abstracts- published five new or updated books, in print and e-book formats1. Self-care in social work: a person-in-environment approach to managing occupational stress and burnout, 2nd edition2. The social work career guidebook: how to land your ideal job and build a legacy3. Social work speaks, 13th edition4. Interactional supervision: a teaching guide for the 4th edition5. Social work field instruction in modern practice: a handbook6. Artificial intelligence in the behavioral health professions: ethical and risk management issues 7. Managing client violence: a practical guide for social workers8. The school social work toolkit: practical and hands-on activities and group work- engaged multiple marketing campaigns1. Multiple social media paid ads on facebook/messenger/instagram/ meta;2. Exhibit at nasw annual conference; ebook sale; exhibit at cswe annual conference; holiday sale 3. Black history month sale; social work month sale; exhibit at nabsw annual conference; graduation sale; holiday sale, book…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed 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 2022 to 2023, from $94M to $114M (+21%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 9% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Anthony Estreet
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $16k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Nasw Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS’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 SOCIAL WORKERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 SOCIAL WORKERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 96% · 2020 58% · 2021 83% · 2022 81% · 2023 62% — broadly stable.
“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
13% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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 SOCIAL WORKERS draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 SOCIAL WORKERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $515k on record.
- MA$500k
- VT$10k
- OR$2k
- OK$2k
- DE$250
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 SOCIAL WORKERS
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Nasw Foundation · exempt
- Nasw Political Action for Candidate Election · exempt
- Nasw Assurance Services Inc · corp_trust
- Nasw Insurance Company · corp_trust
- Nasw Legal Defense Fund · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,700 to it, the largest being THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION ($82,891). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $221,700 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS?
- THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,891 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS 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 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