Virginia · Nonprofit
National Council for Adoption
National Council for Adoption (Virginia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,648,761 to it, the largest being The Morgridge Family Foundation ($375,950). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What National Council for Adoption does
Mission
Passionately committed to the belief that every child deserves to thrive in a nurturing, permanent family. National Council for Adoption's mission is to meet the diverse needs of children, expectant parents, birth parents, adopted individuals, adoptive families, and all those touched by adoption through global advocacy, education, research, legislative action, and collaboration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conference - NCFA through its annual conference offers continuing education and high-caliber training to professionals from the adoption, social work, and child welfare communities who all share a common commitment to helping children thrive in nurturing, permanent families. The annual conference is an opportunity to highlight NCFA's research projects and findings done in cooperation with adoption researchers across the country.
$284,616 spent$310,273 earned by the program26% of program spendingAdoption-Sensitive Clinical Care project - This grant program is designed to help hospital-based staff understand and support the complex needs of expectant parents facing unintended pregnancies as well as those in the process of making an adoption plan for their child. With the guidance of a national advisory committee and the oversight of the federal Children's Bureau, the project team has updated and delivered the Understanding Infant Adoption curriculum online in the first of four different training lengths, as well as developed recommendations for three shorter training lengths, all of which will confer continuing medical education and social work continuing education credits for those who complete the training. The project team has updated and received federal approval to deliver six supplemental deep-dives into adoption-related topics and drafted two new supplemental modules. Data is being collected throughout the project to measure its effectiveness.
$198,451 spentof which $117,930 as grants18% of program spendingEducation and communication - NCFA offers free and low-cost webinars to expectant and current adoptive parents, adoption professionals, and other interested parties, training more than 3,000 people each year. NCFA also carries out communications campaigns to help the public better understand adoption and the needs of adoption families, communicating through national, regional, local, and special-interest media. NCFA provides social work CE through webinars and our conference, equipping social workers with high-quality, adoption-competent material. NCFA's e-publication of topical articles, the adoption advocate, offers critical information on relevant topics for those connected to adoption.
$146,008 spent$30,880 earned by the program13% of program spendingVarious other programs including: Research, Legislative Action, National Training and Development Curriculum, and General Programs.
$409,289 spent$138,850 earned by the program37% of program spendingConstituent Services- NCFA serves our member adoption agencies and attorneys, with education, networking, and advocacy resources. We participated in meetings with congressional staff, federal government personnel, think-tanks, institutions of higher learning, and others in the education and child welfare-oriented community.
$59,936 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,098,300.
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 $1.6M to $2.5M (+61%).
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 10% · 2022 1% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of National Council for Adoption’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Ryan Hanlon
President & CEO
Board chair
Andrea T Vavonese
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 9 funders, grant income rose $91k → $241k.
4 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Council for Adoption’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 Council for Adoption has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
32% 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 Council for Adoption.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 34% · 2019 35% · 2020 54% · 2021 25% · 2022 17% · 2023 46% — growing more concentrated.
“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
65% of National Council for Adoption's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 Council for Adoption draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Council for Adoption holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding National Council for Adoption receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record — $1.0M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Kinship Navigator$2k
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 Council for Adoption
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Council for Adoption: 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 Council for Adoption?
- National Council for Adoption (Virginia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,648,761 to it, the largest being The Morgridge Family Foundation ($375,950). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Council for Adoption have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,648,761 in grants to National Council for Adoption, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Council for Adoption?
- The Morgridge Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $375,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Council for Adoption 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.
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 31 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