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International Franchise Association

Ifa mission: to protect, enhance and promote franchising.ifa vision: be the preeminent voice and acknowledged leader for franchising worldwide.ifa values: integrity, respect, trust, excellence, diversityifa strategic priorities: government relations, public relations, education and professional development.

$704k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$599kEducation$165kCommunity Improvement$147kCivil Rights$100kArts & Culture$35kEmployment$25kFood & Nutrition$12k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $640,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $703,885 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $63,635 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $481k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEMAFOR$165,000
COALITION TO SAVE LOCAL BUSINESS$140,000
SAVE LOCAL RESTAURANTS$126,250
AMERICAN COMPASS$50,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION$35,000
INSTITUTE FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER$25,000
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION$25,000
AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM$25,000
TASTE OF THE SOUTH$12,000
TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE$10,000
HOUSE VICTORY FUND$10,000
ARIZONA SENATE VICTORY FUND$10,000
ASAE$7,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ARIZONA SENATE VICTORY FUND: $10k → 11%SAVE LOCAL RESTAURANTS: $126k → 8%SEMAFOR: $165k → 17%HOUSE MAJORITY PAC: $20k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER: $25k → 4%ONE NATION: $75k → 6%GOPAC: $10k → 7%HOUSE VICTORY FUND: $10k → 11%AMERICAN COMPASS: $50k → 14%GOPAC: $15k → 7%COALITION TO SAVE LOCAL BUSINESS: $140k → 14%GOPAC: $10k → 7%AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM: $25k → 14%GOPAC: $15k → 7%TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%ASAE: $7k → 14%NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $25k → 14%STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $105k → 14%STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $70k → 14%Republican State Leadership Committee: $40k → 14%STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%Republican Attorneys General Association: $13k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Taxpayers Union Foundation

National taxpayers union foundation (ntuf) provides crucial, impactful research and analysis showing americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. with our unique combination of policy expertise, outreach know-how,…

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2
Employ America

To promote macroeconomic policies that ensure the sustained advancement of labor market outcomes for all american workers, i.e. tight labor markets, higher wages and better quality employment.

Employment
3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
The American Assembly

A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.

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5
Americans for Public Trust

The Organization's mission is to restore trust in government by holding officials and groups accountable for corrupt and unethical behavior through investigation, legal action, and reporting.

Arts & Culture
6
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
7
American Legislative Exchange Council

The american legislative exchange council (alec) is a forum for stakeholders to exchange ideas and develop potential solutions. alec's mission is to advance and promote the jeffersonian principles of limited government, free markets and…

Public Benefit
8
National Association of State Budget Officers

To encourage study and research in state budgeting, to exchange information and promote cooperation toward more effective budget preparation and management, and to attain greater efficiency and economy of programs and services though…

Philanthropy
9
American Policy Coalition

With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.

Public Benefit
10
California Taxpayers Association

CalTaxs mission is to serve the general public and our members including Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and individuals by promoting sound tax policy and government efficiency at the state and local levels of government through…

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11
State Business Executives

Multi-sector, multi-state voice of business advocating on 5 key policies pillars.

Community Improvement
12
Virginia Afl-Cio

The Virginia AFL-CIO monitors all legislation affecting the working people of Virginia. To keep the state's labor standards on a progressive track for all working people, we work to win the fight against passage of laws that would have a…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Taxpayers Union; the most unlike its peers is American Society of Association Executives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $245,000 · Public BenefitSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONSave Local Restaurants: $126,250 · Public BenefitSave Local RestaurantsONE NATION: $75,000 · Public BenefitONE NATION+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitSEMAFOR: $165,000 · OtherSEMAFORGOPAC: $50,000 · OtherGOPACRepublican State Leadership: $40,000 · OtherRepublican State LeadershipAmericans for Tax Reform: $25,000 · OtherAmericans for Tax ReformNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNIONHMP: $20,000 · OtherHMPRepublican Attorneys General Assoc: $12,500 · Other+3 more: $27,000 · Other+3 moreCOALITION TO SAVE LOCAL BUSINESSES INC: $140,000 · Community ImprovementCOALITION TO S…American Compass Inc: $50,000 · Civil RightsTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureInstitute for the American Worker: $25,000 · EducationTASTE OF THE SOUTH: $12,000 · Philanthropy
Public Benefit$456,250Other$364,500Community Improvement$140,000Civil Rights$50,000Arts & Culture$35,000Education$25,000Philanthropy$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $245,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCOALITION TO SAVE LOCAL BUSINESSES INC: $140,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetONE NATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTASTE OF THE SOUTH: $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Edison Electric Insti…Pharmaceutical Resear…Association for Acces…The Concord FundAmerican Petroleum In…National Restaurant A…Motion Picture Associ…
Edison Electric Institute IncDC22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edison Electric Institute Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Association for Accessible Medicines · The Concord Fund · American Petroleum Institute · National Restaurant Association · Motion Picture Association Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization International Franchise Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Franchise Association. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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