Illinois · Nonprofit
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,363,897 to it, the largest being MCELHATTAN FOUNDATION ($5,000,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $38M
What National Safety Council does
Mission
The National Safety Council's mission is to eliminate the leading causes of preventable death and injury. Nsc's efforts and thought leadership center on impacting safety through education and training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safety, education, and training - educational services to customers, including defensive driving, first aid, workplace safety, and conventions.the nsc accomplished the following during fy2025: - safety, education, and training educational services to customers, including defensive driving, first aid, workplace safety and convening safety professionals at nsc congress & expo.the nsc accomplished the following during fy2025: - promoted innovation and technology pillars of safety and health workplace strategy. Nsc held a series of network member meetings and events to convene ehs professionals, researchers and problem solvers for an open exchange of safety innovations and best practices. - provided new training and education resources to help save lives. Nsc continues to offer a variety of virtual and in-person training and educational resources. Nsc strives to update content regularly and create new courses to better fit organizational and individual needs toreduce injuries and build a safety culture. - trained more than 1.2 million people through nsc's workplace , first aid, and driver safety training offers which impacted 41,000+ workplaces.
$18,091,532 spentof which $963,189 as grants$34,712,834 earned by the program45% of program spendingMembership - provides support and benefits to members.engaged nsc's 13,000+ member companies to build a strong safety culture at their workplace and keep their employees safe. Members receive:-access to the latest regulatory, trend, research and complianceinformation.-discounts on training to keep their workplaces and employees safe.-tools and resources to build a culture of safety at their workplace,-opportunities to connect with other safety professionals, thought leaders, and peers.
$11,888,523 spent$10,265,628 earned by the program29% of program spendingAdvocacy and partnerships - activities related to public awareness, lobbying, and grant-funded initiatives. Nsc advocates at both the federal and state level in their efforts to educate everyone to ensure safety is a priority each day. Additionally, nsc advocates for safety with more than 100 current policy statements related to transportation and workplace. With the help of advocacy partners, nsc advocates for roadway safety and workplace safety policy solutions at the federal, state, and local levels, including before the u.s. Congress, state legislatures, and federal and state regulatory bodies
$10,525,378 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,505,433.
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 2020 to 2021, from $67M to $82M (+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 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 11% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Martin Lorraine
President & CEO
Board chair
Cook Brian
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $7k → $1.2M.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SAFETY COUNCIL’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 SAFETY COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 43% · 2019 31% · 2020 41% · 2021 88% · 2022 82% · 2023 81% — 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
27% of NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 SAFETY COUNCIL draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $843k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 SAFETY COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 37 public safety & disaster nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.2M on record — $21.8M federal, $437k state.
- Department of Transportation$15.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.3M
- General Services Administration$1.1M
- Department of Defense$775k
- Department of the Interior$269k
- Department of Homeland Security$180k
- NJ$332k
- OK$52k
- MA$28k
- VT$15k
- FL$10k
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 SAFETY COUNCIL
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- International Safety Council · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL: 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 SAFETY COUNCIL?
- NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,363,897 to it, the largest being MCELHATTAN FOUNDATION ($5,000,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $6,363,897 in grants to NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL?
- MCELHATTAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL 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.
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 27 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