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PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP

PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,952 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($402,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$466k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$456k
Net assets
$180k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Pallas Foundation for National Security Leadership does

Mission

To develop educational programs in fields of global and national security policy and practice; including national security policy and strategy, national defense, homeland security, diplomacy, intelligence operations, coalition operations, and alliances and cybersecurity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The pallas foundation aims to foster education and professional development of emerging leaders with an emphasis on underrepresented groups in national security.

    $552,870 spentof which $93,000 as grants$466,234 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $552,870.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($385k) Expenses 100 ($200k) Net assets 100 ($200k)2023 Revenue 158 ($609k) Expenses 219 ($439k) Net assets 185 ($371k)2024 Revenue 138 ($530k) Expenses 275 ($551k) Net assets 175 ($350k)2025 Revenue 121 ($466k) Expenses 318 ($636k) Net assets 90 ($180k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (121)Expenses (318)Net assets (90)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 2022 to 2023, from $234k to $403k (+72%).

$234k
$403k
$363k
$197k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

42% of PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$185k
’22
$171k
’23
−$21k
’24
−$170k
’25
3.7
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.

2022202320242025
Listed3366
Joined·+0+4+0
No longer listed·010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
2
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP’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

PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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 PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP.

88%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $456k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP has grown faster than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−36% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Pallas Advisors LLC · partnership
  • Pallas Ventures Gp LLC · partnership
  • Pallas Ventures Manager LLC · partnership
  • Xiphos Solutions LLC · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP?
PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,952 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($402,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $455,952 in grants to PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $402,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PALLAS FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP 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 2022–2025), 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