Kansas · Nonprofit
NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC
NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC (Kansas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,384,860 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,153,687). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $917k
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What National Police Accountability Project Inc does
Mission
To promote the accountability of law enforcement officers and their employers for violations of the Constitution or laws of the United States.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
NPAP works to build a future free of police violence while seeking justice for those harmed by the existing system. NPAP supports a network of 500+ civil rights attorneys that brings thousands of misconduct cases against abusive police departments, jails and prisons across the country. NPAP provides additional resources so our member attorneys can bring bigger, more impactful cases against departments and cities to force a change to their practices. Our focus is on the South, Midwest, rural and smaller jurisdictions where police misconduct is egregious, yet civil rights attorneys are scarce. We are actively growing the numbers and expertise of attorneys skilled in police misconduct cases in these geographic areas. We also support communities ability to engage in advocacy by providing legal expertise and counsel to community-led and community-driven efforts to reform and reimagine policing across the country.
$1,158,674 spent$847,413 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,158,674.
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 2019 to 2020, from $314k to $3.3M (+964%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Lauren Bonds
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $1k → $142k.
15 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 30% · 2021 71% · 2022 86% · 2023 28% — 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
14% of NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
85% of NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $356k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC: 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 POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC?
- NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC (Kansas) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,384,860 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,153,687). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $2,384,860 in grants to NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,153,687 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 46 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