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NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS
NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS (Virginia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,633,668 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($3,763,692). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $104M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $39M
What National Center for State Courts does
Mission
Since 1971, the National Center for State Courts (the center) partners with state courts in their evolution into modern governmental institutions and helps to introduce efficiency and cost-effectiveness into the administration of justice (see schedule o for continuation) to ensure impartiality and accountability. The center provides research and technology services both domestically and internationally. It provides technical assistance to state courts through consulting, serves as a clearinghouse for information sharing within the court community, identifies emerging cost-cutting practices, develops cost benefit analysis for court operations, and designs leadership training/educational programs for state court leaders. The center is educating a new generation of court leaders, providing state-of-the-art resources to court executives, and ensuring that the state judiciaries become effective partners with the legislative and executive branches of government.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
International programs - the center conducted approximately 75 projects in 2024 in diverse areas including judicial governance, judicial education, court technology, access to justice, ethics, integrity and anti corruption, criminal justice, juvenile justice and transnational and organized crime. The program provides technical assistance, training and technology to enhance justice systems and services around the world.
$69,372,797 spent$219,768 earned by the program74% of program spendingDirect services to state and local courts - the center serves as a technical assistance resource for the adaptation of improvements in the courts through consulting. The center performed approximately 210 individual state contracts in many areas, including foster care, human resources, automation, budget and financial issues, juries, facilities planning, caseflow management and court interpretation.
$13,643,072 spent$10,023,842 earned by the program15% of program spendingResearch programs - program delivers its services in data quality, governance, and analysis - turning data into useful, actionable information, help courts prepare for the future through trendspotting, anticipating challenges and needs.
$4,918,231 spent$1,240,143 earned by the program5% of program spendingClearinghouse activities - the center serves as a clearinghouse through which members of the court community and others interested in courts can exchange information and encourage improvements in state courts administration. Specific services are: distribution of court-related publications, court association management services, government relations, and information services.
$3,317,775 spent$2,260,798 earned by the program4% of program spendingEducational and training - programs provides courses and training for court community.
$2,556,076 spent$1,528,595 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,807,951.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $46M to $56M (+22%).
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 59% · 2018 65% · 2019 79% · 2020 81% · 2021 82% · 2022 79% · 2023 81% · 2024 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Mary C Mcqueen
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.2M.
7 of 38 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $868k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 STATE COURTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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 52% · 2018 43% · 2019 61% · 2020 33% · 2021 29% · 2022 49% · 2023 43% — 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
26% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 CENTER FOR STATE COURTS draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $262k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15 crime & legal nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $569.5M on record — $560.0M federal, $9.5M state.
- Department of State$539.4M
- Department of Justice$8.0M
- Department of Transportation$7.1M
- Agency for International Development$4.2M
- District of Columbia Courts$795k
- National Science Foundation$500k
- NJ$3.4M
- VT$2.9M
- OR$2.0M
- DE$879k
- OK$373k
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 CENTER FOR STATE COURTS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS: 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 STATE COURTS?
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS (Virginia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,633,668 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($3,763,692). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $13,633,668 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $3,763,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 38 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