Supporters & Initiatives
NFF sees community-led organizations as drivers of economic resiliency, well-being, and financial equity. Financially secure nonprofits provide jobs for diverse residents, retain local ownership of critical community assets, and invest in neighborhood stability and wealth-building.
Yet intentional disinvestment, economic exclusion, and systemic racism have created inequitable realities for nonprofits led by and serving communities of color. To address these challenges, NFF creates opportunities for philanthropic, corporate, and government partners to support nonprofits to become financially sound and have the resources needed to sustain their critical work. We do this by providing loans and financial consulting to community-centered nonprofits.
2023 highlights include:
- Originating $50 million in total new lending to 32 organizations, financing that will benefit thousands of individuals and families
- Providing direct, tailored financial management and financial consulting to 170 nonprofits and reaching thousands of nonprofit leaders through short engagements, events, and consulting webinars
- Continuing to share data, stories, and advice from the 1,100+ nonprofit leaders who took our 2022 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey about the impact of the pandemic as well as events that activated calls for racial justice
Below are examples of initiatives made possible by our generous supporters.
Initiatives
Flexible capital and technical assistance for nonprofits impacted by COVID-19
CDFIs advancing racial equity in lending
Thriving in a new economic reality
Data for change
Our Supporters
NFF Enterprise Supporters
- Mackenzie Scott
- The Ford Foundation
Supporters for Equitable Deployment of Capital
- The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
- Wells Fargo
- Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
- CDFI Fund
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
High Impact Programmatic Supporters
- Mellon Foundation
- The Colorado Health Foundation
- The California Endowment
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The Prudential Foundation
- Bank of America Charitable Foundation
- California Community Foundation
- The Vanguard Group Foundation
- Morgan Stanley
- New Jersey State Council on the Arts
- Trinity Church Wall Street
- Cedars-Sinai
Franklin Cummings Tech
Creating pathways to economic advancement in Boston | Franklin Cummings TechClient spotlights
A Day with Newark Opportunity Youth Network
Education, advocacy, and workforce development for opportunity youth Education / Nonprofit Sector Story | A Day with Newark Opportunity Youth NetworkBlack Nonprofit Chief Executives of Philadelphia
Leading Locally Nonprofit Sector Story | Black Nonprofit Chief Executives of PhiladelphiaCouncil of Peoples Organization
Supporting South Asian Families and Individuals in Brooklyn Nonprofit Sector Story | Council of Peoples OrganizationJoin Us
A thriving nonprofit ecosystem relies on the strength of our philanthropic
and investment partnerships. Following the lead of those closest to the work ensures our philanthropic partnerships actualize community aspirations, increase access to capital, and reimagine a more inclusive social sector.