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NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,309,254 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,505,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$4.3M
Net assets
$4.3M
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What National Right to Life Committee Educational Trust Fund does

Mission

See schedule o. The national right to life educational trust fund educates the public about abortion, euthanasia, infanticide and other related issues within the scope of bioethics. The trust fund publishes and distributes books and other publications, films and audio materials, holds seminars and conferences, and advertises on general right to life issues through television, radio and print media. The trust fund supports crisis pregnancy centers and outreach programs through the national teens and collegians for life, black americans for life, american victims of abortion, international education, and the national right to life educational trust fund.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. State education development - preparation of administrative and educational material for state right-to-life organizations.

    $189,310 spentof which $4,500 as grants
    24% of program spending
  2. General public information.

    $236,233 spent
    30% of program spending
  3. National right to life news - the fund publishes a online newsletter 6 days a week and a special issue once a month covering news on pro-life issues, education and organization.

    $76,672 spent
    10% of program spending
  4. Media impact campaign - advertising and promotion for national right to life (pro-life) to educate and create support from the public.

    $78,870 spent
    10% of program spending
  5. Medical ethics

    $24,867 spent
    3% of program spending
  6. International education

    $4,966 spent
    1% of program spending
  7. Publications

    $28,127 spent
    4% of program spending
  8. Information technology

    $144,431 spent
    18% of program spending

The 8 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $783,476.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 84 ($2.0M) Expenses 98 ($1.9M) Net assets 103 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 320 ($7.5M) Expenses 121 ($2.3M) Net assets 414 ($6.8M)2020 Revenue 113 ($2.6M) Expenses 136 ($2.6M) Net assets 412 ($6.8M)2021 Revenue 54 ($1.3M) Expenses 89 ($1.7M) Net assets 388 ($6.4M)2022 Revenue 50 ($1.2M) Expenses 89 ($1.7M) Net assets 351 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 59 ($1.4M) Expenses 129 ($2.5M) Net assets 263 ($4.3M)2024 Revenue 68 ($1.6M) Expenses 84 ($1.6M) Net assets 265 ($4.3M)
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Revenue (68)Expenses (84)Net assets (265)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $5.1M to $7.0M (+35%).

$4.1M
$5.1M
$7.0M
$8.3M
$7.8M
$7.1M
$5.6M
$5.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$386k
’17
$56k
’18
$5.1M
’19
−$25k
’20
−$474k
’21
−$550k
’22
−$1.1M
’23
−$48k
’24
5.3
months of
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

Scott Fischbach

Executive director

Board chair

Hon Lynda Bell

Chairman of the board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed5858586161616359
Joined·+0+0+11+0+0+15+19
No longer listed·008001323
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $206k → $114k.

11 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Right to Life Educational Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND raised.

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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 RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND.

35%
largest funder
86%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 64% · 2019 85% · 2020 85% · 2021 62% · 2022 47% · 2023 52% — 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

56% of NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.

NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND's revenue fell 32% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve5.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 22%Fundraising 11%

Governance

58
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

72%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • National Right to Life Committee Inc · exempt
  • National Right to Life Conventions Inc · exempt
  • National Right to Life Educational Foundation Inc · exempt
  • National Right to Life Political Action Committee · exempt
  • National Right to Life Victory Fund · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND?
NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,309,254 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,505,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $4,309,254 in grants to NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,505,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 12 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