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THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION

THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $801,863 to it, the largest being Tides Center ($310,000). 9 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.

$253k
Revenue FY2024
18
Funders on record
$802k
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
9/18 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve27.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 ($563k) Expenses 100 ($283k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 104 ($588k) Expenses 109 ($310k) Net assets 122 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 51 ($289k) Expenses 89 ($253k) Net assets 135 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 33 ($188k) Expenses 76 ($216k) Net assets 139 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 80 ($448k) Expenses 108 ($307k) Net assets 159 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 62 ($352k) Expenses 120 ($340k) Net assets 140 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 39 ($219k) Expenses 80 ($228k) Net assets 148 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 45 ($253k) Expenses 78 ($220k) Net assets 150 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (45)Expenses (78)Net assets (150)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

57% of THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$279k
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$278k
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$36k
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$28k
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$141k
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$12k
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$9k
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$33k
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28
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $303k.

10 of 18 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.

Left out of every figure on this page: $350k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Asian Pacific American Bar Association). These are real filings, and they are not money THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of THE NAPABA LAW 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

THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

94% 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 THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION.

39%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 54% · 2019 73% · 2020 72% · 2021 60% · 2022 48% · 2023 89%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

20% of THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

90% of THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION'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 $77k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states.

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

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $725k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 18 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.

Organizations like THE NAPABA LAW 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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 14%Fundraising 13%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

80%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 38 states

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Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NAPABA LAW 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 THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION?
THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $801,863 to it, the largest being Tides Center ($310,000). 9 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 THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $801,863 in grants to THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION?
Tides Center is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE NAPABA LAW 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18funders 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