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NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC

NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 296 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,232,229 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($4,080,000). 179 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.5M
Funders on record
296
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
$8.9M
179/296 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%
01What it does

What National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc does

Mission

Ncfp catalyzes the potential of philanthropic families to achieve greater impact with their giving by elevating a bold vision for family philanthropy; equipping family philanthropies with community, support, and resources; and activating a network of philanthropic families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Member resources and support - ncfp aims to ensure that philanthropic families gain clarity of purpose and achieve meaning and impact in their giving, while the field of family philanthropy pursues an ambitious vision toward building a more equitable world. In addition activating a network of philanthropic families who are motivated and equipped to effectively deploy their resources, ncfp partners with peer donor-serving organizations to serve as a hub of learning, connection, and action.

    $1,174,823 spent
    25% of program spending

  2. Events - ncfp offers a range of programs to foster learning for philanthropic families. Programs are rooted in a family giving lifecycle that provides onramps for families to begin planning, learning, and accessing custom support and resources. Education and events include fundamentals of family philanthropy webinar series; peer networks focused on a particular group, population, or topic; learning and action cohorts dedicated to deep shared learning about a specific concept in family philanthropy; conferences (including the national forum on family philanthropy) workshops, small group conversations, and retreats.

    $1,010,236 spent$316,532 earned by the program
    22% of program spending

  3. Learning and action cohort - ncfp learning and action cohort are ongoing cohorts dedicated to deep shared learning about a specific concept in family philanthropy, with an expectation of a commitment to defined action(s) after the completion of the cohort. Each cohort collectively works through a curriculum with discrete learnings carried out by multiple peer learning events led by experts in the field. Learning and action cohorts provide a connected and dedicated peer community while encouraging funders to think differently and commit to learning and real action. Cohorts are gated (by invitation or application).

    $739,775 spent$104,000 earned by the program
    16% of program spending

  4. Program support

    $725,651 spent$299,500 earned by the program
    16% of program spending

  5. Peer networks

    $446,240 spent
    10% of program spending

  6. Fellows

    $280,541 spent
    6% of program spending

  7. Conferences and speaking engagements

    $244,204 spent$4,978 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,621,470.

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 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 102 ($2.6M) Expenses 103 ($2.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 153 ($4.0M) Expenses 120 ($3.1M) Net assets 156 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 121 ($3.1M) Expenses 104 ($2.7M) Net assets 185 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 312 ($8.1M) Expenses 151 ($3.9M) Net assets 451 ($7.1M)2022 Revenue 226 ($5.9M) Expenses 216 ($5.6M) Net assets 472 ($7.4M)2023 Revenue 380 ($9.9M) Expenses 417 ($11M) Net assets 415 ($6.5M)2024 Revenue 286 ($7.4M) Expenses 264 ($6.8M) Net assets 453 ($7.2M)2025 Revenue 326 ($8.5M) Expenses 258 ($6.7M) Net assets 567 ($8.9M)
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Revenue (326)Expenses (258)Net assets (567)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 $3.5M to $7.8M (+127%).

$2.1M
$2.1M
$3.0M
$3.5M
$7.8M
$8.4M
$8.7M
$9.2M
$11M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,053 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’17
$858
’18
$884k
’19
$459k
’20
$4.2M
’21
$321k
’22
−$895k
’23
$609k
’24
$1.8M
’25
11
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

Nicholas A Tedesco

President and CEO

Board chair

Ashley Blanchard

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed191619202024252626
Joined·+6+6+3+4+8+6+4+3
No longer listed·93244533
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 48 funders to 128 funders, grant income rose $696k → $1.8M.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
48
55
68
89
118
123
128
136
41

17 of 296 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 296 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 CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

35% 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 CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC.

22%
largest funder
33%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 24% · 2019 27% · 2020 11% · 2021 68% · 2022 10% · 2023 12% — 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

46% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 41 states in all.

AK
VT
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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

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’20
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’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Months of reserve10.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC

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.

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy88%National Park Foundation87%National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc86%Center for American Progress86%National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated86%National Fish and Wildlife Foundation85%National Partnership for Women & Families Action Fund85%National Forum for Black Public Administrators Inc85%

Nationally

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy88%Afp Foundation for Philanthropy88%Nonprofit Finance Fund87%National Park Foundation87%National Center for Policing Innovation87%National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc86%Center for American Progress86%The Family Place Foundation86%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 15%Fundraising 15%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

72%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 11 states

WA
IL
MI
NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
TN
MS
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: 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 CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC?
NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 296 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,232,229 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($4,080,000). 179 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC have?
IRS filings report 296 organizations giving $18,232,229 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC, 179 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $4,080,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC 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 296 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing