Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,090 to it, the largest being HOLLE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($52,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What National Communication Association does
Mission
Advancing communication scholarship, teaching, and practice to foster a better world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research and membership: memberships in nca allows for professional affiliation of scholars, and the association provides a number of relevant resources including career services, support for pedagogy, support for research, and awards, among others.
$1,418,968 spentof which $254,831 as grants$725,984 earned by the program48% of program spendingNational convention: nca produces an annual convention for approximately 4,000 communication scholars. The convention includes over 1,000 formal education sessions as well as a variety of opportunities for professional networking.
$1,135,125 spent$1,000,817 earned by the program39% of program spendingNca partners with routledge/taylor and francis to publish twelve academic journals, including communication and critical/cultural studies, communication and race, communication education, communication monographs, communication teacher, critical studies in media communication, communication and democracy, journal of applied communication research, journal of international and intercultural communication, quarterly journal of speech, review of communication, and text and performance quarterly. Nca also publishes a magazine and other items in-house.
$375,561 spent$523,344 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,929,654.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $9.4M (−11%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Justin Danowski
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $16 → $26k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COMMUNICATION 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 COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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 COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $775 on record.
- Membership in Organizations$450
- Rent of Other Building Space$325
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 COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION: 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 COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,090 to it, the largest being HOLLE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($52,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $52,090 in grants to NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION?
- HOLLE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $52,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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