Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC
NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,338,901 to it, the largest being THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC ($1,206,829). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $11M
What National Italian American Foundationinc does
Mission
The national italian american foundation (niaf) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes italian american culture and heritage. The niaf serves as a resource in the italian american community and has educational and youth programs including scholarships, grants, heritage travel, and mentoring. The niaf also has a public policy speakers program. The niaf's mission also includes advancing us - italy relations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Gala dinner: an annual event that honors distinguished italian american men and women who have made substantial contributions to their professions in such fields as education, humanitarianism, business, entertainment, science, and sports. Proceeds from the dinner support niaf's cultural, scholarship, and educational programs.
$2,447,274 spent$1,297,654 earned by the program52% of program spendingScholarships/ grants: approximately $970k was awarded for grants, scholarships and other education programs. Scholarships were presented to students at the college and graduate levels. Grants were awarded for such categories as general undergraduate, women's studies, italian language, communications, etc.
$1,294,634 spentof which $969,854 as grants$665,437 earned by the program28% of program spendingMember services: tiered membership program offering various opportunities for each level of membership. Membership support has allowed niaf to expand its many youth programs, scholarship offerings and grant awards to thousands of deserving italian americans throughout the country.
$270,060 spent6% of program spendingPublic policy: includes seminars, conferences, and news information projects designed to acquaint the general public with the italian community as represented by niaf. Also, the niaf continues efforts in the cooperation with the embassy of italy in assisting italian americans interested in obtaining italian citizenship. Niaf launched an online survey questionnaire to determine eligibility requirements for use by the embassy in processing potential applications.
$676,284 spent$912,708 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,688,252.
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 2017 to 2018, from $13M to $10M (−23%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Robert E Carlucci
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $341k → $524k.
15 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $26k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Columbus Citizens Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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 ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
27% 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 ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 41% · 2019 25% · 2020 25% · 2021 16% · 2022 10% · 2023 19% — 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
35% of NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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 ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $739k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 28 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC: 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 ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC?
- NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,338,901 to it, the largest being THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC ($1,206,829). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $4,338,901 in grants to NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC?
- THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,206,829 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC 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.
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 76 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