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NTC FOUNDATION

NTC FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,289,873 to it, the largest being DUNAWAY FOUNDATION ($5,500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.2M
Revenue FY2024
23
Funders on record
$7.3M
Grants received
$25M
Net assets
10/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

NTC FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($3.9M) Expenses 100 ($4.1M) Net assets 100 ($23M)2018 Revenue 106 ($4.1M) Expenses 101 ($4.1M) Net assets 110 ($25M)2019 Revenue 117 ($4.6M) Expenses 126 ($5.1M) Net assets 108 ($25M)2020 Revenue 400 ($16M) Expenses 185 ($7.5M) Net assets 144 ($33M)2021 Revenue 160 ($6.3M) Expenses 147 ($6.0M) Net assets 150 ($34M)2022 Revenue 140 ($5.5M) Expenses 149 ($6.1M) Net assets 148 ($34M)2023 Revenue 163 ($6.4M) Expenses 170 ($6.9M) Net assets 132 ($30M)2024 Revenue 158 ($6.2M) Expenses 186 ($7.5M) Net assets 111 ($25M)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (186)Net assets (111)Peer revenue range

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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 3% · 2019 9% · 2020 58% · 2021 5% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of NTC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 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.

$143k
17
$52k
18
$548k
19
$8.1M
20
$290k
21
$590k
22
$522k
23
$1.3M
24
2.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $65k → $206k.

4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)9% 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 NTC 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

NTC FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

75%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 50% · 2019 59% · 2020 66% · 2021 82% · 2022 78% · 2023 61%growing more concentrated.

“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

67% of NTC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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 NTC FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

WI
MI
MA
NJ
CA
WV
DE
NC

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

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18
20
21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $635k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding NTC FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $696k on record.

Federal$696k
grants $687kcontracts $9k
17
23
Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$687k
  • Department of Defense$9k

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 NTC FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

16
board members
94%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

85%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 9 related entities

  • Ntcf Liberty Station 1 · disregarded
  • Ntcf Liberty Station 35 · disregarded
  • Ntc Liberty Station II LLC · disregarded
  • Building 178 Performing Arts Center · exempt
  • Ntc Liberty 19 Owner LP · partnership

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NTC 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NTC FOUNDATION?
NTC FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,289,873 to it, the largest being DUNAWAY FOUNDATION ($5,500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NTC FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $7,289,873 in grants to NTC FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NTC FOUNDATION?
DUNAWAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NTC FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing