Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,114,285 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,000,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy does
Mission
Ncrp promotes philanthropy that serves the public good, is responsive to people and communities with the least wealth and opportunity, and is held accountable to the highest standards of integrity and openness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Field initiatives: ncrp advocates for philanthropy to move more and better resources and shift power to frontline movement organizations that represent marginalized communities and advance systemic change. This includes issue specific movement investment projects on the reproductive access & gendered violence and climate justice & just transition movements. Ncrp's "power moves" is a toolkit that helps funders assess how their organizations build, share, and wield power. Ncrp's impact awards recognize funders who exemplify our vision of philanthropy at its best.
$1,277,220 spent40% of program spendingNew project development: over the course of ncrp's work, it is important that the organization respond to any existing or current issues that have come to the forefront. This is part of the organization's strategy to set the sector debate and meet the moment. Ncrp will develop and incubate new ideas that can be shared with our partners and could become a dedicated body of work.
$639,660 spent20% of program spendingResearch: ncrp produces original research and analysis on grantmaking to movements and to organizations led by and serving communities with the least wealth, power, and opportunity, as well as opposition research.
$775,856 spent24% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$525,416 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,218,152.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.1M to $5.8M (+88%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Aaron Dorfman
CEO
Board chair
Dr Dwayne Proctor
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $2.0M.
14 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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 COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
40% 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 COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 54% · 2019 13% · 2020 8% · 2021 53% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% — 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
61% of NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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 COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M 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.
Organizations like NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY: 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 COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY?
- NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,114,285 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,000,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $20,114,285 in grants to NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY 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 98 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