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National Association of Broadcasters

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS (nab) advances the interest of radio and television broadcasters in federal government, industry and public affairs; improves the quality of broadcasting, and encourages technological innovation and public service.

$605k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.8MCivil Rights$552kPublic Benefit$539kEducation$307kCommunity Improvement$230kHealth$211kScience & Tech$131kSocial Science$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $350k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$208M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$250,000
BROADCAST EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$45,000
CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE$35,000
CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC$32,200
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONGRESSIONAL STUDIES$30,000
BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$25,500
BMI MUSIC INC$25,000
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC$25,000
FAITH & POLITICS INSTITUTE$25,000
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$19,590
THE MEDIA INSTITUTE$15,750
CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$15,000
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION$14,000
LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BROADCASTING FOUNDATION$12,750
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK OWNED BROADCASTERS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

VT
WA
IL
NY
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
TX

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.6M · 36 repeat orgs$383k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
28

Total granted

$5.6M
$378k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+22%

Still filing today

89%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthScience & TechOther

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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +64% · 47% of their budget
  • BE
    BROADCAST EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $360k · revenue +37%
  • CH
    CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $197k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • PC
    Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +23%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK OWNED BROADCASTERS
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +102%

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.

1
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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2
News Media Alliance

The news media alliance (nma) is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 news media organizations and their multi-media platform businesses in the us, canada and europe.

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3
National Association of Broadcasters

National association of broadcasters (nab) advances the interest of radio and television broadcasters in federal government, industry and public affairs; improves the quality of broadcasting, and encourages technological innovation and…

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4
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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5
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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6
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
7
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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8
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
9
National Center for Apec

Ncapec is the only u.s. business association focused exclusively on facilitating american private sector input to the apec process. programs typically feature discussions between business, government and academia on key trade and economic…

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10
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
12
The National Bureau of Asian Research

Nbr conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, energy, globalization, and health issues affecting u.s. relations with asia. drawing upon an extensive network of the world's leading specialists and leveraging…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tracys Kids 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr16%37%35–55yr15%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr18%68%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr15%14%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/65
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,936

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 65 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/58
Grantees still filing
41/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $3,275,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION+3 more — $95,000 · Arts & CultureBROADCAST EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $360,000 · OtherBROADCAST EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $196,667 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS IN…TWINLOGIC STRATEGIES LLP — $90,000 · OtherCAPITOL COUNSEL LLC — $82,200 · OtherLIBRARY OF AMERICAN BROADCASTING FOUNDATION — $80,500 · OtherCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $80,000 · Other+34 more — $812,957 · Other+34 moreMulticultural Media Telecom & Internet Council — $92,500 · Civil RightsAsian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional — $70,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $64,000 · Civil RightsAMERICANS FOR LIMITED GOVERNMENT INC — $45,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $15,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $10,000 · Civil RightsRural & Agriculture Council of America (RACA) — $40,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK OWNED BROADCASTERS — $40,000 · Community ImprovementUS Black Chambers Inc — $40,000 · Community ImprovementCALL FOR ACTION INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementCONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP — $15,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesNATIVE PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $40,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC — $40,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC — $35,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Public BenefitTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL BANKERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Public BenefitTECHFREEDOM — $100,000 · Science & TechRESILIENT NAVIGATION AND TIMING FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · Science & Tech
Arts & Culture$3,370,000Other$1,702,324Civil Rights$316,500Community Improvement$165,000Human Services$150,000Public Benefit$145,000Science & Tech$105,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $3,275,000 over 8y, 47% of budgetBROADCAST EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $360,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $196,667 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTECHFREEDOM — $100,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetMulticultural Media Telecom & Internet Council — $92,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetLIBRARY OF AMERICAN BROADCASTING FOUNDATION — $80,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $80,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAsian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional — $70,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $64,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmericans for Tax Reform — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION — $51,667 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $50,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNational Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations — $48,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetAMERICANS FOR LIMITED GOVERNMENT INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research — $45,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNATIVE PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $40,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRural & Agriculture Council of America (RACA) — $40,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK OWNED BROADCASTERS — $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUS Black Chambers Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $39,090 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetNATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Media Institute — $31,200 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCALL FOR ACTION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY INNOVATION — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP — $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MEDIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARM BUREAU FEDERATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LATINO COALITION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH CONFERENCE OF METROPOLIT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

Pharmaceutical Resear…Ncta - the Internet &…Motion Picture Associ…Association for Acces…Ctia - the Wireless A…Edison Electric Insti…MywirelessorgNetChoiceAmerican Fuel and Pet…The Business Roundtab…AARPAmerican Petroleum In…
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC34.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · Motion Picture Association Inc · Association for Accessible Medicines · Ctia - the Wireless Association · Edison Electric Institute Inc · Mywirelessorg · NetChoice · American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers · The Business Roundtable Inc · AARP · American Petroleum Institute

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 National Association of Broadcasters 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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