GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

National Council of Nonprofits

Washington, DC · EIN 52-1689643. Reported 25 grants totalling $1,101,020 to 23 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

23organizations funded
$29,052median reported grant
$1,101,020granted, 2023-2024
40%of grantees funded again the next year
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For National Council of Nonprofits, the IRS classifies it as a philanthropy and voluntarism organization (NTEE T50Z).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 11% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 40% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $29,052. Half of what it reported fell between $7,293 and $70,500; the smallest was $5,311 and the largest $118,400. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Together ScColumbia, SC$120,542222024
Hawaii Alliance of Nonprofit OrganizationsHonolulu, HI$118,400112024
Iowa Nonprofit AllianceDes Moines, IA$100,500112024
Montana Nonprofit Association IncHelena, MT$91,790112023
Florida Nonprofit Alliance IncJacksonville, FL$82,300112023
Tennessee Nonprofit NetworkMemphis, TN$77,020112024
New Jersey Center for Nonprofits IncMercerville, NJ$70,500112023
Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations IncBaltimore, MD$66,928112024
North Carolina Center for Non Profit Organizations IncRaleigh, NC$66,299222024
Pennsylvania Association of Non- Profit OrganizationsHarrisburg, PA$64,587112024
Maine Association of NonprofitsPortland, ME$34,152112024
Nonprofit Association of the MidlandsOmaha, NE$31,538112024
West Virginia Nonprofit Association IncLewisburg, WV$29,052112024
Delaware Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement IncWilmington, DE$29,000112024
Alabama Association of NonprofitsBirmingham, AL$28,094112024
United Way of Northwest Vermont IncS Burlington, VT$27,000112024
Wyoming Association of Non Profit OrganizationsCheyenne, WY$26,287112024
Nonprofit Association of OregonPortland, OR$7,293112024
Center for Nonprofit ExcellenceCharlottesvle, VA$6,612112024
Kentucky Nonprofit NetworkLexington, KY$6,421112024
Mission CapitalAustin, TX$5,942112024
Az Impact for GoodPhoenix, AZ$5,452112024
California Association of Non ProfitsSan Francisco, CA$5,311112024

2 of 23 (9%) received money in more than one year over the 2 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 23 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.

Community Improvement
11 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
7 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
1 org
Human Services
1 org
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20235$397,890$82,300
202420$703,130$27,668

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

11% of its giving went to organizations in South Carolina. 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.

South Carolina
$121K
Hawaii
$118K
Iowa
$100K
Montana
$92K
Florida
$82K
Tennessee
$77K
New Jersey
$70K
Maryland
$67K

Down to the city

Columbia, SC
$121K
Honolulu, HI
$118K
Des Moines, IA
$100K
Helena, MT
$92K
Jacksonville, FL
$82K
Memphis, TN
$77K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsFirst Interstate Bancsystem Foundation4 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc3 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America3 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $29,052 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in South Carolina.
  4. 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 Council of Nonprofits's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 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: 1001 G Street Nw Suite 700 East, Washington, DC, 20001.

EIN 52-1689643 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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