New York · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,500 to it, the largest being THE NATHAN CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC ($72,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $234k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $148k
What National Conference of Black Lawyers does
Mission
Defend human rights, challenge oppression and advanced self-determination for black communities in the united states and throughout the african disapora.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In march 2025 ncbl released handbook for community organizing working to obtain reparations. Ncbl leadership participated in national reparations conferences and international forums including the united nations permanent forum on people of african descent, reinforcing the global dimensions of reparation justice. Continued legal research policy analysis and community education to advance local state national and international reparation efforts
$30,347 spentof which $106,720 as grants36% of program spendingNorth Carolina Community Advocacy Programming NC state-specific advacacy addressing local issues such as housing justice, workers rights and economic justice and court debt relief. Programming also includes Know-Your-Rights workshops and community outreach.
$19,500 spent23% of program spendingConfronting criminalization and political repression ncbls criminal justice section advanced a coordinated strategy to confront systemic criminalization - particularly the criminalization of poverty protest and political dissent. Section members supported court fines and fees relieft in north carolina by assisting individuals burdened with unaffordable court dent, filing motions seeing waiver or reduction and disrutpitng cycles of poverty. The section launched the black legal observer collective piloted in georgia through formal legal observer training. This initiative strengthens community defense during protest and public demonstrations. Ncbl supported political advocacy by issuing formal letters urging parole for long-held political prisoners and amplifying their cases throught public education.
$11,616 spent14% of program spendingVoting rights and democracy defense recognizing that voter supppression dilution and disenfrancisement are modern extensions of racialized state power ncbl engaged in legal advocacy aimed at defending the right of black communities to fully participate in democratice life.
$11,616 spent14% of program spendingLegacy project a national oral history and archival iniiative designed to presrve and transmit the black radical legal tradition with over 200 boxes of archial materials housed at the moorland-spingarn research center the project mobilized law students nationwide to conduct research transcription and interview preparation. The legacy project lays the groundwork for an ncbl institute for social research ensuring that movement knowledge informs future legal strategies.
$11,615 spent14% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $84,694.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $38k to $174k (+354%).
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.
103% of NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $50k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS’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 CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
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 CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 91% · 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
96% of NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Against its field
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS?
- NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,500 to it, the largest being THE NATHAN CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC ($72,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $125,500 in grants to NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS?
- THE NATHAN CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $72,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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