· Public charity
Midway USA Foundation Inc
The foundation provides financial support to other nonprofit organizations with funds directed specifically to support educational programs focusing on firearms safety, skill training for shooting, hunting and outdoor activities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 494 grants below total $9,528,613 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,194,824 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,666,211 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k228 grants · $1.6M
- $10k–50k232 grants · $4.7M
- $50k–250k33 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $389k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOLASTIC SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION INC | $388,797 |
| PARENT BOOSTER USA INC | $227,610 |
| ARKANSAS GAME & FISH FOUNDATION | $219,680 |
| UTAH YOUTH EDUCATION IN SHOOTING SPORTS | $191,204 |
| ALASKA SCTP INC | $190,240 |
| X COUNT INC | $128,418 |
| THE MASS SHOOTERS FOUNDATION INC | $106,998 |
| MICHIGAN SCHOLASTIC CLAY TARGET PROGRAM | $106,017 |
| YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS ALLIANCE | $97,829 |
| INDIANA YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION INC | $88,826 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICA WILD SHEEP | $82,312 |
| GILBERT SHOOTING CLUB INC | $79,302 |
| CHEROKEE COUNTY YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS | $77,795 |
| PALMYRA SPORTSMENS ASSN INC | $73,109 |
| MID CAROLINA 4-H | $71,926 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
463 repeat relationships — 389 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 102 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SSScholastic Shooting Sports Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +76%
- ASALASKA SCTP NON PROFIT CORPORATION AKSCTP YES8× · 2017–2024 · $826k · revenue +95% · 57% of their budget
- MSMASS SHOOTERS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $684k · revenue +13% · 97% of their budget
Funded once
- BTBLAINE TRAP SHOOTING BOOSTERSone grant, 2021 · $60k
- LTLACKAWANNA TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $57k
- SSASP-Spartanburgone grant, 2023 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide youth with a safe, responsible opportunity to learn and compete in shooting sports.
We are a conservation organization that provides a variety of events and facilities to help members and the public improve their outdoor skills.
Non profit organization for education
The mission of the hodag sports club is to provide gun safety education to the rhinelander area and the public at large by providing a safe facility for shooting training and practice to serve local law enforcement, hunters, students and…
Foster, promote and educate young generations of gun users with the junior club
Shotgun sport and safety
The main purposes of the Corporation are to educate citizens of Warren Countyin the safe handling and use of firearms; to improve their skill in target shooting throughregular practice sessions and competitions; teach members leadership,…
Social and Recreational Shooting Sports Shotgun, Rifle, Archery
Sportsmen's club promoting shooting sports, the love of the outdoors and conservation but mostly safety and knowledge of of the shooting sports.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Youth Education in Shooting Sports and the most unlike its peers is Sibley-Ocheyedan Shooting Generals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
251 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 251 of the 666 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALASKA SCTP NON PROFIT CORPORATION AKSCTP YES ↗
- Who funds MASS SHOOTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH EDUCATION IN SHOOTING SPORTS ↗
- Who funds WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA SCHOLASTIC CLAY TARGET PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds X COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING STATE 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI YOUTH SPORT SHOOTING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SCHOLASTIC CLAY TARGET PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SAFARI CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMATEUR TRAPSHOOTING ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PALMYRA SPORTSMENS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA YOUTH SHOOTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUTH TARGET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PHEASANTS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GASTON YOUNG GUNS SHOOTING SPORTS ↗
- Who funds IOWA SCHOLASTIC CLAY TARGET PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE TRAPSHOOTING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKEYE OUTDOOR YOUTH EDUCATION & SHOOTING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PA YOUTH SHOOTING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Spartan Clay Target Team Booster Club Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: NRA Foundation Inc · Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation Inc · Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc · Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Whitetails Unlimited Inc · Ohio Valley Conference Inc · National Writing Project Corporation · Weatherby Foundation International Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Midway USA Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Florida 4-H Club Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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