The NonProfit Times has released its twenty-fourth annual Power and Influence Top 50 list.

Selected from a group of roughly three hundred nonprofit executives by a committee of NPT editorial staff, contributors, and a few nonprofit executives, this year's list features sixteen new honorees and four executives returning to the list after a hiatus. New faces include Abigail Dillen, president of Earthjustice; Brian Greene, president and CEO of Houston Food Bank; Alix Guerrier, president and CEO of GlobalGiving; Pia Infante, co-executive director of the Whitman Institute; Suzanne McCormick, U.S. president of United Way Worldwide; Hilary Pennington, executive vice-president of programs at the Ford Foundation; Edgar Sandoval, Sr., president and CEO of World Vision U.S.; Doug Sauer, CEO of the New York Council of Nonprofits; Giving Pledger MacKenzie Scott; Barron Segar, president and CEO, World Food Program USA; Sonal Shah, president of the Asian American Foundation; Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Taylor, president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; Edgar Villanueva, founder and principal of the Decolonizing Wealth Project; Laura Walling, senior director of governmental affairs at Goodwill Industries International; and Ridgway White, president and CEO of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

Those returning to the Top 50 list after an absence of at least a year are Nonprofits Insurance Alliance president and CEO Pamela Davis, People For the American Way president Ben Jealous, Boston College Law School professor Ray Madoff, and National Urban League president and CEO Marc H. Morial.

Notable names not on the list this year include Antony Bugg-Levine, who made the list the last three years and is stepping down as CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund after ten years; Gates Foundation co-founder and co-chair Bill Gates, who appeared on the list fourteen times between 2000 and 2020; and NTEN chief executive Amy Sample Ward, who was on the list every year from 2015 to 2020.

"The leaders highlighted in this twenty-fourth annual NPT Power & Influence Top 50 have distinguished themselves as initiators, innovators, and leaders," wrote NPT vice president and editorial director Paul Clolery. "An important [criterion] of the list is that the honoree must be a working day-in, day-out executive. In many cases this year day-in, day-out was 24/7/365 and still going."