Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,723,714 to it, the largest being THE PENTECOST FOUNDATION ($7,700,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What National Center on Sexual Exploitation does
Mission
Ncose embraces a mission to defend human dignity and to advocate for a world free from sexual exploitation, objectification, and violence. To this end, ncose operates on the cutting edge of public policy activism to combat corporate and government policies that foster exploitation, civil litigation, research, and through its parent center to bring about a world free from sexual abuse and exploitation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Litigationthe ncose law center is an advocate for survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation in litigation against mega corporations and systems that have facilitated their abuse and intervenes in key, precedent-setting cases. While still in its infancy, the ncose law center has already brought together some of america's leading plaintiffs law firms to begin bringing dozens, and soon hundreds, of cases to the courts. This is similar to the strategy that was used to bring other harmful industries such as big tobacco to their knees.
$1,106,742 spent$235 earned by the program26% of program spendingPublic policy ncose's public policy team aims to defend dignity and combat sexploitation through political advocacy at the national and state levels with bi-partisan support of all legislative solutions. Our task is both offensive and defensive: we must work to educate congress and state legislatures, so policymakers produce legislation that prevents sexual exploitation and protects its victims. As often, ncose is compelled to combat bad initiatives that would, for example, increase sex trafficking by expanding the commercial sex trade a real fight we've faced (and won) since 2018. Ncose is establishing a complete library of the best model legislation in america to stop sexual exploitation. We are growing our effort and are proactively engaged in the congress and various state legislatures to promote our legislation and turn back initiatives of our opponents. This includes, cleaning up the internet by holding on-line providers and platforms accountable harm the facilitate and creating policies that decriminalize victims of sexual exploitation while increasing accountability for those who do the harm pimps/traffickers and sex buyers. Ncose assists legislators and interest groups,…
$1,250,806 spent$266 earned by the program29% of program spendingCoalition and movement leadershipncose directs the coalition to end sexual exploitation (cese), a diverse, loose-knit network of more than 300 multi-disciplinary organizations, survivor leaders, academics, advocates, policymakers, and other stakeholders collaborating to end all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation. Key activities include networking, strategy development, and thought leadership on emerging issues such as technology-facilitated abuse and ai harms, and ongoing support for member initiatives. Ncose's subject matter experts are in high demand for invited presentations, panels, conferences, and thought-leadership events in both public and private settings. These engagements often involve travel and related costs covered by ncose and offer significant opportunities for relationship-building, movement strengthening, and fundraising. Through cese and related efforts, ncose provides platforms for survivor voices, promotes evidence-based resources, and advances a cohesive, non-partisan movement for prevention, justice, and cultural change.
$564,176 spent$120 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,328,338 spent$297 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,250,062.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.6M to $6.0M (+133%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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
Dawn Hawkins
CEO (through january 2025)
Board chair
Kindsey Pentecost Chadwick
Director chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $381k → $3.5M.
15 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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 ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 50% · 2019 71% · 2020 66% · 2021 58% · 2022 34% · 2023 29% — 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
47% of NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $240k on record.
- Department of Justice$240k
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 ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Center on Sexual Exploitation Institute for Public Policy · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: 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 ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION?
- NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,723,714 to it, the largest being THE PENTECOST FOUNDATION ($7,700,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $17,723,714 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION?
- THE PENTECOST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION 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 69 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