National Action Council for Minorities
Alexandria, VA · EIN 52-1190664. Reported 159 grants totalling $7,512,100 to 54 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For National Action Council for Minorities, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R220) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 89% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $33,750. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $44,000; the smallest was $5,625 and the largest $341,468. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Arkansas Fayetteville | Fayetteville, AR | $743,731 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Morgan State University | Baltimore, MD | $705,318 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Kentucky | Lexington, KY | $469,387 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $438,611 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $371,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | $248,845 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $214,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The University of Illinois Alumni Association | Urbana, IL | $195,875 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The North Carolina A&t Real Estate Foundation Inc | Greensboro, NC | $192,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Comparative Gastroenterology Society | College Station, TX | $182,125 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Tuskegee University | Tuskegee Institute, AL | $170,875 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Prairie View A&m University | Prairie View, TX | $159,625 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rutgers the State University of Nj | Flemington, NJ | $159,625 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology | Hoboken, NJ | $155,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA | $155,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $150,875 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Milwaukee School of Engineering | Milwaukee, WI | $149,978 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lehigh University | Bethlehem, PA | $147,125 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kansas State University | Manhattan, KS | $146,575 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $142,638 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of California Davis | Davis, CA | $134,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kettering University | Flint, MI | $133,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Texas San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $131,375 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $130,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Florida International University | Miami, FL | $129,375 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology Foundation | Newark, NJ | $120,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Institute of Chemical Engineers | New York, NY | $113,125 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma State University Foundation | Stillwater, OK | $113,125 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $112,962 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $95,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Central Florida | Orlando, FL | $75,875 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| City College of New York | New York, NY | $75,625 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Alaska | Fairbanks, AK | $74,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | Blacksburg, VA | $74,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Toledo | Toledo, OH | $70,625 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $70,625 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | $62,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Georgia | Athens, GA | $52,890 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | $51,875 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Purdue University Global Inc | West Lafayette, IN | $39,375 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Arkansas Little Rock | Fayetteville, AZ | $32,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California State University Sacramento | Sacramento, CA | $31,490 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | $29,375 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation for City College | New York, NY | $28,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | $26,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Central Florida | Orlando, FL | $25,625 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Michigan Technological University | Houghton, MI | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Dayton | Dayton, OH | $22,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $18,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Association for Computing Machinery | Rolla, MO | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
39 of 54 (72%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 39 | $2,209,030 | $36,750 |
| 2021 | 37 | $1,650,276 | $26,875 |
| 2022 | 38 | $1,614,909 | $39,687 |
| 2023 | 45 | $2,037,885 | $37,125 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
10% of its giving went to organizations in Arkansas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $33,750 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Arkansas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Action Council for Minorities's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 45 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1432 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA, 22314.
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