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National Black Prosecutors Association

National Black Prosecutors Association (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$593k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$304k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What National Black Prosecutors Association does

Mission

The mission of the NBPA is reflected in the organization's commitment to the recruitment of blacks within the prosecutorial arm of the legal profession. To ensure the retention of blacks in prosecution.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The National Black Prosecutors Association (NBPA) hosted its 41st Annual Conference and Job Fair at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference was held August 3 through August 10, 2024. An estimated 400 lawyers attended. There were more than 1,200 minutes of Continuing Legal Education programming provided during the conference. An in-person job fair promoting the hiring of Black prosecutors was conducted on August 6, 2024. More than 40 employers participated in the job fair, including state and federal prosecuting offices. During the fiscal year the organization also created numerous continuing legal education training programs specifically tailored to modern prosecution issues. The organization also held numerous social and community events to promote diversity in the field of prosecution.

    $646,211 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $646,211.

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 ($155k) Expenses 100 ($142k) Net assets 100 ($190k)2018 Revenue 113 ($174k) Expenses 126 ($179k) Net assets 98 ($185k)2019 Revenue 214 ($332k) Expenses 243 ($345k) Net assets 91 ($172k)2020 Revenue 416 ($645k) Expenses 400 ($568k) Net assets 131 ($249k)2021 Revenue 200 ($310k) Expenses 2 ($3k) Net assets 0 ($0)2022 Revenue 202 ($313k) Expenses 64 ($91k) Net assets 284 ($541k)2023 Revenue 234 ($362k) Expenses 208 ($295k) Net assets 319 ($607k)2024 Revenue 208 ($321k) Expenses 391 ($555k) Net assets 196 ($373k)2025 Revenue 383 ($593k) Expenses 481 ($684k) Net assets 160 ($304k)
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Revenue (383)Expenses (481)Net assets (160)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 2020 to 2021, from $249k to $0 (−100%).

$190k
$185k
$172k
$249k
$0
$541k
$607k
$373k
$320k
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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

100% of National Black Prosecutors Association’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
−$5k
’18
−$13k
’19
$77k
’20
$306k
’21
$221k
’22
$67k
’23
−$234k
’24
−$91k
’25
5.6
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.

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Listed5775721212120
Joined·+4+0+1+5+18+0+0+13
No longer listed·203340014
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

Funder
'19
'20
'24*
total
Nfl Foundation Incunclassified
$10k
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of National Black Prosecutors Association’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 Black Prosecutors Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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

29% 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 Black Prosecutors Association.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

National Black Prosecutors Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.

NY
MA

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

’19
’20
Illinois out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

National Black Prosecutors Association has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding National Black Prosecutors Association receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.

State$33k
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04
05
06
19
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23
25
By state
  • MA$18k
  • FL$11k
  • NJ$4k
  • CT$100

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 Black Prosecutors Association

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 3%Fundraising 2%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds National Black Prosecutors Association?
National Black Prosecutors Association (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does National Black Prosecutors Association have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to National Black Prosecutors Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of National Black Prosecutors Association?
The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like National Black Prosecutors Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 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