Not-for-Profit Executive Roles — Foundations, NGOs, Philanthropy
More than 499 executive roles classified in Not-for-Profit, Foundations & Philanthropy, with 39 new this week. Executive Director, CEO, and senior program leadership at foundations, large NGOs, and philanthropic organizations.
Tier breakdown
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Founder438
C-Suite29
VP2
Sr Director30
DirectorWhat this category covers
Not-for-Profit covers executive roles at foundations, large NGOs, advocacy organizations, and grantmakers. The CEO/ED titles are common, plus Chief Program Officers, VPs of Development, and Heads of Strategy.
Includes mission-driven hybrid organizations (B-Corps, social enterprises) when the org is governed as a non-profit. Endowment-management roles fall here too when they sit inside the foundation.
Across the 499 active roles in this category, the largest tier is C-suite. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
Sample Jobs (10 of 499)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Director, Human Resources, IS-0201-14 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory The position provides direction to subordinate managers, supervisors, and technical specialists, overseeing both Federal and non-federal hiring processes, and leading electronic initiatives and modernization efforts. VP | Cambridge, MA Onsite |
| Executive Director ... Texas Association of School Boards, Inc. (TASB) The Executive Director of TASB leads the organization in collaboration with the Board of Directors, overseeing strategic vision, advocacy, governance, and operational services for Texas school boards. C-Suite | Texas Unknown |
| Director, Supply Chain Nécessaire, Inc. Senior leadership role responsible for Nécessaire's end-to-end supply chain, including strategy, supplier relationships, cost management, and team leadership. Director | New York, NY Onsite |
| Chief Quality Officer Emplify Health Emplify Health seeks a collaborative, forward-thinking enterprise leader to serve as its next Chief Quality Officer (CQO). This role involves shaping and unifying quality and safety strategy within a newly formed health system. C-Suite | La Crosse, Wisconsin Unknown |
| Director of Finance National Association of School Psychologists The Director of Finance is responsible for managing and overseeing the Association's financial operations, including accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, cash management, payroll, audits, and compliance. The role involves working closely with the COO and leading a small finance team. C-Suite | Bethesda, Maryland Hybrid |
| Director of Communications and Membership Waterways Council, Inc. Lead communications and membership efforts, manage media relationships, and drive membership growth for Waterways Council, Inc. C-Suite | Washington, D.C. Onsite |
| Director of Strategic Philanthropy, Southeast Region American Friends of Magen David Adom Seeking a Director of Strategic Philanthropy for the Southeast Region to lead fundraising efforts, oversee regional operations, and strengthen community connections. C-Suite | Miami, FL Onsite |
| Chief Delivery Officer Catalyst Exchange Catalyst Exchange is searching for a systems-thinking, user-obsessed, and integrative leader to serve as the inaugural Chief Delivery Officer (CDO). The CDO will lead functions responsible for designing and delivering solutions for nonprofits and public sectors. C-Suite | Remote Remote |
| Chief Technology Officer Digital Research Alliance of Canada The CTO will provide executive leadership for Canada's national digital research infrastructure technology environment, including infrastructure operations, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, and corporate technology systems. C-Suite | Toronto, Ontario Unknown |
| Director, Professional Learning Newsela Lead the Professional Learning Services team, accountable for P&L, customer retention, and revenue. Develop content strategy and manage budgets. Director | Remote Remote |
How classification gets to this category
Not-for-Profit, Foundations & Philanthropy classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for governance structure (501c3, foundation, public charity), program scope, and budget responsibility. The classifier weights Executive Director seniority correctly even though the title isn't "CEO". See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Not-for-Profit, Foundations & Philanthropy as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Not-for-Profit, Foundations & Philanthropy is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Not-for-Profit + Senior Director and above and you see EDs and Chief Program Officers running multi-region operations — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
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