Maryland · Nonprofit
NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,232 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($122,047). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $165k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Natl Orgn for the Prof Adv of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers does
Mission
NOBCChE is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the academic and professional advancement of students and professionals in chemistry, chemical engineering, and related fields. In FY2024, NOBCChE hosted its national conference in Orlando, Florida, welcoming 802 registered participants. The program featured 137 technical talks, 400 poster presentations, 55 professional and student development workshops, and a STEM Festival for over 100 elementary students. A highlight was the Career and Academic Expo with over 100 universities, companies, and agencies. NOBCChE also celebrated excellence through its prestigious awards luncheons and closing ceremony, where more than 30 awards were presented. In collaboration with the National Science Foundation, the conference included new initiatives such as speed coaching and an innovation tank competition. In total, the event impacted more than 1,200 individuals, advancing NOBCChE's mission to inspire the next generation of STEM leaders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers is a non-profit professional organization dedicated to assisting black and other minority students and professionals in fully realizing their potential in academic, professional, and entrepreneurial pursuits in chemistry, chemical engineering, and allied fields. NOBCChE conducts programs locally, regionally and nationally as much as feasible. During the 2022-2023 Fiscal year, NOBCChE held its 50th Annual Meeting in an in-person format September 11-14, 2023 at the Sheraton in New Orleans, Louisiana. Approximately 1122 students, professionals and exhibitors attended the conference and exhibition. The conference was funded by a contribution of registrant fees, exhibition fees, sponsor donations, and grant funds. The meeting had record breaking numbers of attendees at the major luncheons for Winifred-Burks Houck and Percy L. Julian luncheons, which honored Drs. Tyrslai Menyaee' Williams-Carter and Squire J. Booker. The sessions were stellar and including panels on teaching, a career and academic expo, poster prizes for poster presentations, workshops on branding and social media and…
$795,090 spent$964,715 earned by the program47% of program spendingNOBCChE engaged in various other programs and activities at the regional and local levels and in collaboration with other entities with the expressed purpose to fill the STEM pipeline in general and specifically the chemical enterprise pipeline with under-represented groups of students and professionals.
$49,097 spent$34,537 earned by the program3% of program spendingInvestment of surplus revenue to fund growth
$500,468 spent$500,468 earned by the program30% of program spendingOther expenses
$335,168 spent20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,679,823.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+41%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Sharon Thomas
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $7k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS’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
NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
90% of NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS'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 $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS?
- NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,232 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($122,047). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $165,232 in grants to NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $122,047 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATL ORGN FOR THE PROF ADV OF BLACK CHEMISTS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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