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THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN
THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN (Virginia) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,270,798 to it, the largest being T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,557,986). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67M
- Funders on record
- 155
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $84M
What The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children does
Mission
The national center for missing & exploited children (ncmec) is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation whose mission is to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. Ncmec works with families, victims, private industry, law enforcement, and the public to assist with preventing child abductions, recovering missing children, and providing services to deter and combat child sexual exploitation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The ncmec exploited children division operates the cybertipline, and, as part of their support to investigation and recovery efforts, manages the child victim identification program to assist with child identification, maintains a hash-sharing list to support tech industry ongoing detection of online child sexual abuse material, partners with the ncmec analytical services division to identify and respond to suspected child sex trafficking and noncompliant sex offender cases, and organizes survivor-informed services to aid the recovery and healing of children and families affected by the trauma of online exploitation.
$21,261,792 spent$10,000 earned by the program37% of program spendingThe ncmec missing children division operates the call center and provides case management services as part of their support to investigation and recovery efforts, disseminates posters and manages the secondary distribution of amber alerts informing the public of active missing child cases, organizes team adam consultants to provide rapid onsite responses to critical missing child cases, tracks attempted abductions in partnership with the ncmec analytical services division as a preventative measure, coordinates an array of forensic services to support long-term missing cases and cases of unidentified, deceased children, and is ready to deploy child location assistance in a national emergency.
$14,182,487 spent$12,756 earned by the program24% of program spendingThe ncmec analytical services division provides technical assistance and data analysis to assist law enforcement in their efforts to locate and recover missing children and victims of domestic child sex trafficking and to locate and apprehend noncompliant sex offenders.
$13,154,271 spent$1,430,909 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe ncmec content & community engagement division coordinates with all ncmec divisions to operate our portfolio of outreach, training, and prevention resources, programs, and materials to increase awareness of missing and exploited child issues as well as promote skill building and evidence-based practices for response and recovery. This division is responsible for ncmec connect, our online learning management system supporting virtual training courses and in-person learning opportunities to law enforcement, social services, and other child-serving professionals. This division also partners with national nonprofit organizations, law enforcement agencies, and businesses to organize community events, conferences, webinars, and other presentations, such as the code adam program promoting safety protocols within retail establishments, to amplify prevention and educational resources on child safety at no-cost to participants.
$6,854,701 spent$70,000 earned by the program12% of program spendingThe ncmec family advocacy and survivor services provide peer-based emotional support, community-based professional mental health resources, and advocacy opportunities to families and survivors of missing and exploited child cases. Offer reunification and recovery assistance in missing child cases to searching families and helping professionals. Provide resources for healing from sexual exploitation for survivors and non-offending caregivers. Create opportunities for learning and improved service-delivery from a trauma-informed, survivor-based perspective through our survivor and caregiver consultancy groups. Provide longterm support to families of missing and exploited children and survivors of all case types.
$2,463,295 spent4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $57,916,546.
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 2017 to 2018, from $40M to $75M (+88%).
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: 2017 78% · 2018 65% · 2019 76% · 2020 72% · 2021 75% · 2022 74% · 2023 75% · 2024 76% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Michelle DeLaune
Pres/CEO
Board chair
Jon Grosso
Director (Active), Chairperson (Thru 12/11/2025)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $803k → $3.8M.
28 of 155 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 155 funders by total. 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
77% 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 41% · 2019 24% · 2020 54% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 64% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
67% of THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN'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 $4.4M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 31 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.
Against its field
THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 165 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 165 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $394.7M on record.
- Department of Justice$391.4M
- Department of Homeland Security$3.3M
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 THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN: 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 THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN?
- THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN (Virginia) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,270,798 to it, the largest being T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,557,986). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 155 organizations giving $13,270,798 in grants to THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN?
- T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,557,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 155 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing