Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES
NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,702,463 to it, the largest being STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($3,100,843). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $34M
What National Governors Association Center for Best Practices does
Mission
To provide tailored technical assistance for challenges facing the states, identify and share best practices, and serve as an information clearinghouse on gubernatorial initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During fiscal year 2024-2025, the nga center advanced its mission of providing innovative, bipartisan solutions to critical policy challenges through targeted technical assistance, policy academies, learning collaboratives, research publications, and national convenings.the nga center led transformative education policy work under the chairmanship of colorado governor jared polis' let's get ready initiative. This work involved hosting a series of national convenings and gathering research and best practices from across north america to better align education systems with the skills needed for the jobs of today and in the future. In the workforce sector, the nga center continued to convene governors teams focused on removing degree requirements from public sector jobs and moving towards skills based hiring. Additionally, the nga center continued to convene governors workforce advisors and workforce board leaders for biannual convenings, including in october 2024 in connecticut and march 2025 in washington, dc.the nga center continued to support governors with health and human services work, including supporting governors around youth mental health, maternal and infant health, and…
$15,184,628 spent$208,678 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,184,628.
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 2023 to 2024, from $34M to $41M (+22%).
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: 2017 29% · 2018 28% · 2019 29% · 2020 19% · 2021 24% · 2022 25% · 2023 33% · 2024 34% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
William Mcbride
Executive director
Board chair
Gov Wes Moore
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $884k → $4.2M.
11 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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 GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
39% 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 GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 30% · 2019 19% · 2020 15% · 2021 36% · 2022 42% · 2023 14% — diversifying over time.
“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
23% of NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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 GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $37.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$17.1M
- Department of Energy$13.3M
- Department of Homeland Security$2.5M
- Department of Defense$1.5M
- Department of Agriculture$1.5M
- Department of Commerce$598k
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 GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Governors Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: 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 GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES?
- NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,702,463 to it, the largest being STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($3,100,843). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $33,702,463 in grants to NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES?
- STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,100,843 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 80 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