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.
2022 highlights include:
- Providing 280 organizations with over 15,000 hours of financial capacity building support, helping build organizational strength and developing sustainable financial strategies to achieve community aspirations
- Directing 68% of our lending dollars – over $23 million – to organizations led by people of color
- Gathering data from 1,100+ nonprofit leaders about how to build a better social sector
Below are examples of initiatives made possible by our generous supporters.
Initiatives
Capital Advancing Racial Equity, supported by multiple investors across the nation
Flexible capital and technical assistance for nonprofits impacted by COVID-19
Catalyzing Finance for Racial Equity, supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
CDFIs advancing racial equity in lending
Rising Together, supported by Morgan Stanley
Thriving in a new economic reality
State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey, supported by Bank of America Charitable Foundation
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
Join 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.
Contact us to learn more at [email protected].