California · Nonprofit
NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT
NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,602,605 to it, the largest being RAIKES FOUNDATION ($6,959,504). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $10M
What National Equity Project does
Mission
To transform the experiences, outcomes, and life options for children & families who have been historically underserved by our institutions and systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organizational Consulting & Leadership Coaching:This business unit is primarily responsible for contracts that build the capacity of leaders and teams to make progress on equity goals and outcomes that lead to thriving and more liberatory communities. Leading services are executive coaching, process facilitation, team development, strategy & process design, and project management.
$5,559,879 spentof which $100,166 as grants$2,883,860 earned by the program78% of program spendingFiscal Sponsorships:The organization was the fiscal agent for LiberatED, which focuses on healing and social and emotional learning. The organization provides student, teacher, and family & community engagement resources as well as an educator training and coaching program to support educators and leaders at all levels of a school system.
$1,561,135 spentof which $1,410,229 as grants22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,121,014.
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 $11M to $16M (+49%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.4M.
18 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 EQUITY PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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 EQUITY PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
42% 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 EQUITY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 32% · 2019 26% · 2020 23% · 2021 41% · 2022 56% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 EQUITY PROJECT draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 EQUITY PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT: 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 EQUITY PROJECT?
- NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,602,605 to it, the largest being RAIKES FOUNDATION ($6,959,504). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $31,602,605 in grants to NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT?
- RAIKES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,959,504 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 50 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