How much did NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF grant in FY2024?

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF reported 258 grants totaling $17,960,984 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF based?

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF is based in DC.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF

The goals of the organization are to: 1) represent districts as their national voice on conservation issues; 2) provide useful information to conservation districts and their state associations; 3) build partnerships with federal and state agencies and other organizations in order to carry out district priorities and programs; 4) analyze…

$18M

Granted FY2024

258

Grants

Communities

$531k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

greencrawfordcommissioncd'snorthnrcdswcd's

2020

warren swcdjackson soilalleghenynrcddirectionniobrara nrdnortheast

2021

jefferson soilpalousealleghenyscheduleandersonnrdnrcd

2022

jefferson soilpalouseandersonnrcdnrdcreekkiowa

2024

utilizingenvironmentharvestsandersonalleghenynorthshoshone

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 258 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $57k
$10k–50k126 grants · $3.8M
$50k–250k117 grants · $11M
$250k+7 grants · $2.4M

$48,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

ARIZONA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS$531,048
ALASKA VILLAGE INITIATIVES$377,901
GEORGIA ASSOC OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS$324,584
NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OF SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION$295,000
LAKE RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT$280,733
POPO AGIE CONSERVATION DISTRICT$275,000
MECKLENBURG SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT$266,170
KANSAS ASSOC OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS$248,753
CONNECTICUT COUNCIL ON SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION$244,145
SNOHOMISH CONSERVATION DISTRICT$232,500
TRINITY COUNTY RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT$229,306
NATIONAL ASSOC OF RC&D COUNCILS INC$228,414
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOC OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS$202,457
GLACIERLAND RC&D COUNCIL$198,653
INDIAN NATIONS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE$198,211

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$64M · 352 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

352 repeat relationships — 195 still active in FY2024, 157 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

352

Total granted

$64M

$565k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%

+235%

Still filing today

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

RI
RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF CD'S
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +6915% · 44% of their budget
VA
VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF CD
7× · 2018–2024 · $983k · revenue +31%
AA
ARIZONA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS
5× · 2020–2024 · $885k · revenue +509%

Funded once

NC
NATIONAL CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $85k · revenue +235%
WC
WASHAKIE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT
one grant, 2018 · $56k
KC
KIOWA COUNTY CD
one grant, 2022 · $41k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Alaska Wildlife Conservation

Awcc is a sanctuary dedicated to preserving alaska's wildlife through conservation, research, education, and quality animal care.

Animals

Conservation Nebraska

Protecting nebraskas natural resources

Environment

Nd Natural Resources Conservation T

To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota

Environment

Southeast Conservation District Employee Association

Conservation education and promotion

—

Kentucky Association of Conservation District Employees

Conservation education and promotion

Environment

Alabama Association of Conservation

The alabama association of conservation districts (aacd) is the unified voice of alabama's 67 conservation districts. organized as a 501(c)3, aacd works in cooperation with the alabama soil & water conservation committee, federal, state,…

Environment

Iowa Ass'n Soil Conservation Districts

Work with soil & water conservation districts to promote sustainable agricultural practices and conservation practices for communities

Science & Tech

American Conservation Association

—

Arizona Center for Nature Conservation

The arizona center for nature conservation (acnc) advances the stewardship and conservation of animals and their habitats while providing experiences that inspire people and motivate them to care for the natural world.

Animals

Southwest Conservation District Inc

Water & soil conservation

Environment

North Dakota Natural Resources

—

West Virginia Association of

Promotes the conservation of natural resources

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Association of Soil and Water Conservat and the most unlike its peers is Florida Three Rivers Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/449

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,116

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.

05the grantee network

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

35/40

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$57,705,005Environment$6,866,370Food & Nutrition$1,187,331Community Improvement$851,253Philanthropy$720,102

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.

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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC40.5× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Coalitions & Collaboratives Inc · Greater Wisconsin Agency on Aging · The Nature Conservancy · California Fire Safe Council Inc · The Maryland Association of Soil · First Nations Development Institute · Bonneville Environmental Foundation · Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc · American Farmland Trust · Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · Resources Legacy Fund

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 organisation NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 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.

2024

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1get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 15.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 300661669 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 64% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to National Association Of through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to National Association Of?

More from the funding graph

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to National Association Of?

More from the funding graph