Illinois · Nonprofit
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,800,375 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($17,909,070). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $397M
- Funders on record
- 105
- Grants received
- $81M
- Net assets
- $109M
What National Opinion Research Center does
Mission
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. Our experts identify relationships and trends, and evaluate programs and interventions, in the areas of economics, markets, and the workforce; education, training, and learning; global development; health and well-being; and society, media, and public affairs. In the course of this work, they advance research methods and technologies, and foster the responsible and scientifically rigorous use of data.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago is an independent research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous analysis to guide critical programmatic, business, and policy decisions. Since 1941, norc has conducted groundbreaking studies, created and applied innovative methods and tools, and advanced principles of scientific integrity and collaboration. Today, government, corporate, and nonprofit clients around the world partner with norc to transform increasingly complex information into useful knowledge. Our comprehensive and integrated services span the research cycle and offer solutions that anticipate and address critical needs in research and data science.those services include:. Strategy and planning. Design and methodology. Data collection and management. Analytics and data science. Policy analysis, program implementation and evaluation. Strategic communication and disseminationour areas of research focus include:. Economics, markets, and the workforce. Education, training, and learning. Global development. Health and well-being. Society, media and public affairs
$259,916,309 spent$86,732,275 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $259,916,309.
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 2019 to 2020, from $123M to $154M (+25%).
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 85% · 2018 81% · 2019 77% · 2020 62% · 2021 69% · 2022 73% · 2023 76% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 Gertner
Chair & trustee
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $4.2M → $9.2M.
11 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 OPINION RESEARCH CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 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 OPINION RESEARCH CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
67% 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 OPINION RESEARCH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 22% · 2019 35% · 2020 42% · 2021 18% · 2022 18% · 2023 30% — 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
22% of NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER'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 OPINION RESEARCH CENTER draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 OPINION RESEARCH CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9B on record — $1.8B federal, $11.0M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.4B
- Agency for International Development$95.3M
- National Science Foundation$85.6M
- Department of Labor$73.2M
- Department of the Interior$33.3M
- General Services Administration$29.3M
- DE$9.1M
- OR$999k
- MA$839k
- VT$58k
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 OPINION RESEARCH CENTER
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- University of Chicago · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: 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 OPINION RESEARCH CENTER?
- NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,800,375 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($17,909,070). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $80,800,375 in grants to NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER?
- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $17,909,070 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 105 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