How much did NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$2.9MCivil Rights$354kHuman Services$175kCommunity Improvement$165kPublic Benefit$95kScience & Tech$81kHealth$70kSocial Science$55kEducation$40kOther$1.5M

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

personswomen medialivescreatecure smapolitical educationdialogue

2020

protectsconsumerlevelsjusticeeducateconsumersagricultural

2021

techfreedomenhancesincrease numbernumber africanafrican ownedowned broadcastbroadcast business

2022

advocacyincreaseparticipationprinciples freefree enterpriseenterprise limitedlatino

2023

fosterincreaseparticipationlibrarycommunicationseducationallatino

2024

navigation timingrntsourcesrecommendationssignalsinformationsystems

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

03FY2024 · 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

States reached

$208M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
FAITH & POLITICS INSTITUTE$25,000
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC$25,000
BMI MUSIC INC$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
MULTICULTURAL MEDIA TELECOM AND INTERNET COUNCIL$10,000

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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.0M · 32 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.0M

$373k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+29%

Still filing today

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitArts & 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

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +43% · 42% of their budget
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BROADCAST EDUCATIONS ASSOCIATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $360k · revenue +9%
CH
CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC
6× · 2018–2024 · $242k · revenue +97%

Funded once

PC
PHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES
one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +11%
REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESSgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +98%
PC
PREVENT CANCER FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +11%

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.

National Association of Broadcasters

Nab is the voice for the nation's radio and television broadcasters. as the premier trade association for broadcasters, nab advances the interests of our members in federal government, industry and public affairs; improves the quality and…

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National Association of Regulatory

To serve the public interest by improving the quality and effectiveness of public utility regulation.

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News Media Alliance

To represent nearly 2,000 news media orgs. and their multi-media platform businesses in the us.

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American Gas Association

American gas association (the association) is an advocate for natural gas utility companies and their customers. the association helps natural gas utilities achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of…

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Free Press

Free press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. free press conducts research on how the current media system influences the development of public policy and educates the public and policy-makers on how a…

Arts & Culture

America's Newspapers

To represent, promote and advance the interest of those in the newspaper industry

Employment

National Association for College

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

Education

American Press Institute Inc

To be the trusted source for career & leadership dev. for the newsmedia industry in n. america.

Arts & Culture

American Media Institute

Inform the public by providing news

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Association for Public Policy Analysis &

Appam is dedicated to improving public policy management by fostering excellence in research.

Public Benefit

Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights

National Constitution Center

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to teaching about the Constitution.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Americans Advancing Justice and the most unlike its peers is University of Vermont and State. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/58

the rest of the field

10%

1,356/12,943

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

52 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)

51/52

Grantees still filing

39/52

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$2,870,000Other$1,637,324Civil Rights$354,000Human Services$175,000Community Improvement$165,000Public Benefit$95,000Science & Tech$80,500

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.

Ncta - the Internet & TelevisionDC35.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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: NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521866840 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION, 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 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to National Association of Broadcasters?

Find your warmest path to National Association of Broadcasters 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 BROADCASTERS

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

52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to National Association of Broadcasters?

More from the funding graph

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS

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

52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to National Association of Broadcasters?

More from the funding graph