National Foundation for Affordable
North Bethesda, MD · EIN 52-1665967. Reported 82 grants totalling $1,306,201 to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 Foundation for Affordable, the IRS classifies it under housing & shelter rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE L99Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 15% 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. 58% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,500. Half of what it reported fell between $5,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $177,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $202,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Western Golf Association | Glenview, IL | $139,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Casey Cares Foundation Inc | Columbia, MD | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hope in a Suitcase | Beverly Hills, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mecca Society Inc | Flossmoor, IL | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bps Foundation | Las Vegas, NV | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lets Win Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | New York, NY | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Duke University Philanthropies Inc | Durham, NC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Montgomery County Collaboration Council | Rockville, MD | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Evans Scholars Foundation | Glenview, IL | $39,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc | Charlotte, NC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $28,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| BABY2BABY | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fight for Children Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gift of Life Marrow Registry Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institute for Responsible Housing Preservation | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington Jesuit Academy | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Main Street Connect Inc | Rockville, MD | $21,160 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cal Ripken SR Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St John's College High School | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wofford College | Spartanburg, SC | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation | Saline, MI | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| DC Public Education Fund | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | Deerfield, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| School Leader Lab | Washington, DC | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Westchester Golf Association Caddie Scholarship Fund Inc | Elmsford, NY | $10,381 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bender Jcc of Greater Washington | Rockville, MD | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | Rye Brook, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Caves Valley Golf Club Foundation Inc | Owings Mills, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Foundation | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Foundation for Democratic Development | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Free and Fair Litigation Group Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Haverford School | Haverford, PA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hope for Henry Foundation | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lab School of Washington | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sanctuary for Families Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Blackbaud Giving Fund | Daniel Island, SC | $6,160 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Atlanta Humane Society & Society Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | Atlanta, GA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Abyssinian Fund Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Anti-Defamation League | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bishop Mcnamara High School | Forestville, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bullis School Inc | Potomac, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| College Track | Oakland, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Temple Israel of Hollywood | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc | North Bethesda, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| World Central Kitchen Incorporated | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
25 of 47 (53%) 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 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.
- Communities in School of Los Angeles Inc
STRATEGICALLY ALIGN AND DELIVER NEEDED RESOURCES SO THAT STUDENTS CAN FOCUS ON LEARNING - Hope in a Suitcase
TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO CHILDREN AND TEENS ENTERING FOSTER CARE. - Western Golf Association
SUPPORT OF UNDERPRIVILEGED YOUTH - Evans Scholars Foundation An Ilinois Charitable Trust
PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR CADDIES AND PROMOTES THE SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL WELFARE OF RECIPIENTS - Casey Cares Foundation
INVEST IN PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT CREATE A STRONG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN TO THRIVE LONG-TERM. - Fight for Children Inc
TO HELP INDIVIDUALS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND COMMUNITIES LEVERAGE THE POWER OF SPORTS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF UNDERSERVED YOUTH.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 36 of 47 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | $502,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 21 | $216,381 | $5,381 |
| 2023 | 19 | $308,660 | $7,500 |
| 2024 | 23 | $279,160 | $6,160 |
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
28% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $9,500 -- 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 California.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Foundation for Affordable's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 11810 Grand Park Avenue Suite 600, North Bethesda, MD, 20852.
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