Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION
NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,500 to it, the largest being National Board for Respiratory Care Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What National Sleep Foundation does
Mission
To improve health and well-being through sleep education and advocacy
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Awareness: including programs such as sleep awareness week, drowsy driving prevention week, and the National Sleep Foundation website properties including www.thensf.org and others.
$944,857 spent$253,526 earned by the program40% of program spendingPublishing: including the National Sleep Foundation's peer-reviewed journal sleep health: journal of the National Sleep Foundation, the journal website property www.sleephealthjournal.org, and nsf's sleep health textbook for future public health professionals, foundations of sleep health.
$339,544 spent$157,789 earned by the program14% of program spendingResearch: including nsf's proprietary validated research tools to measure sleep health: the sleep health index, sleep satisfaction tool and best slept self questionnaire. Also includes the sleep in america poll, a national annual poll that provides valuable information to the general public and sleep community on topics of interest. Includes nsf population health-related activities, such as nsf recommendation development, consensus panels, workgroups, and data analysis.
$738,987 spent$351,254 earned by the program31% of program spendingOther program services
$331,745 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,355,133.
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 $4.4M to $13M (+202%).
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: 2023 3% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
John Lopos
CEO
Board chair
Steve Lerman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION’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 SLEEP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SLEEP FOUNDATION.
“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.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 SLEEP FOUNDATION's revenue fell 59% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Sleep Inc · exempt
- Nsf Services Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION: 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 SLEEP FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,500 to it, the largest being National Board for Respiratory Care Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $39,500 in grants to NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION?
- National Board for Respiratory Care Inc is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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