Minnesota · Nonprofit
National Council on Family Relations
National Council on Family Relations (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,600 to it, the largest being ANNE E LEIBOWITZ FUND CO JOY SEGAL ($1,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What National Council on Family Relations does
Mission
NCFR provides an educational forum for family researchers, educators and practitioners to share in the development and dissemination of knowledge about families and family relationships, establishes professional standards, and works to promote family well-being.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Educational Activities 2024:NCFR held its annual conference in Bellevue, Washington. Over a thousand people attended onsite and another 60 people watched sessions remotely. The conference included two pre-conference workshops: Theory Construction and Research Methodology; and the Feminist, Fearless, and Fierce Leadership Retreat.NCFR hosted 16 webinars in 2024 for constituents' professional and skill development. NCFR continues to make available all past webinar recordings for this purpose as well. In 2024, NCFR hosted a three-part comprehensive training intended for practitioners working in the community and students wishing to learn more about growing a FLE practice. The training, titled 6 Steps to Growing Your Family Life Education Practice, had 28 participants.In 2024, an average of 1,422 people held the Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) credential and 121 NCFR CFLE-approved programs in the U.S. and internationally. One new academic Family Science program received first-time approval for including coursework that meets CFLE standards. One program reinstated its CFLE-approved status. Twenty-one programs renewed their CFLE-approved status. In 2024, 11 individuals were…
$1,426,029 spentof which $16,782 as grants$429,423 earned by the program61% of program spendingInformation dissemination in 2024:NCFR published five issues of its flagship scholarly journal, Journal of Marriage, and Family, five issues of its journal Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science and four issues of its Journal of Family Theory & Review in 2024. A total of 283 articles were published. The journal issues were provided to 2,303 active members in 2024. NCFR journal articles reached readers in 217 countries with around 1.4 million views across the three journals. NCFR created and published two policy briefs in 2024, titled Reducing the Digital Divide for Families: State and Local Policy Opportunities and The Role of Taxation in Family Inequality: Possibilities for Reform. The briefs were disseminated to state policymakers and NCFR members who are encouraged to share with others. The NCFR website provides curated resources to disseminate NCFR's policy-related activities, and a description of NCFR's policy-related activities. Additional research and policy briefs were in production at the end of 2024.In 2024, NCFR created one new resource collection, Public Scholarship Harassment Resources, and updated the Immigration and Families collection…
$502,985 spent$1,414,419 earned by the program22% of program spendingMembership services in 2024:NCFR also offered the Student Access Grant for a fifth year, supporting registration fees, one year of NCFR membership, and a $500 travel stipend to attend the 2024 NCFR annual conference. The grant was given to ten students from historically marginalized racial or ethnic populations, providing access and inclusion to the NCFR membership and conference. NCFR fundraised $18,954 from members to fund and support the 2024 Student Access Grant.For the fifth year, NCFR and David H. Olson, Ph.D. sponsored the annual $10,000 NCFR Olson Grant: Bridging Research, Theory, and Practice. The grant was established to enable projects that bridge research, theory, and practice in Family Science. In its inaugural year, NCFR awarded the first recipient of the NCFR Darling Family Life Education Research Initiative Grant. This grant awards $5,000 every other year to one awardee. Carol Darling established the grant to support Family Life Educators, researchers, and programs that often lack funding to conduct research needed to support and maintain their projects and services.The 2024 Honors Program recognized 26 graduating students in the Fall, Spring and Summer graduation…
$400,284 spentof which $45,967 as grants17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,329,298.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.2M to $4.8M (−8%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of National Council on Family Relations’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $250 → $300.
From the IRS filings of National Council on Family Relations’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.
Where its funders are
National Council on Family Relations draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 on Family Relations's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Council on Family Relations: 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 on Family Relations?
- National Council on Family Relations (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,600 to it, the largest being ANNE E LEIBOWITZ FUND CO JOY SEGAL ($1,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Council on Family Relations have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,600 in grants to National Council on Family Relations, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Council on Family Relations?
- ANNE E LEIBOWITZ FUND CO JOY SEGAL is the largest funder on record, with $1,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Council on Family Relations find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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