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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC$25,000
BMI MUSIC 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
NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND$10,000
02The need
03

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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Its 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 its 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 INC: $25k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK OWNED BROADCASTERS
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +283%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR POLICY INNOVATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -29%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

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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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2
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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3
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
4
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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5
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
6
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

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

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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
Public Affairs Council

Our mission is to advance the field of public affairs and provide tools and resources that enable public affairs executives and managers to achieve their business and professional goals.

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9
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) serves as the unified voice for the 1,700 private, nonprofit colleges and universities in our nation. (continued on Schedule O)

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10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
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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12
National Association for College Admission Counseling

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 65 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/58
Grantees still filing
42/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 RightsUS Black Chambers Inc: $40,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK OWNED BROADCASTERS: $40,000 · Community ImprovementRural & Agriculture Council of America (RACA): $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 ServicesNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $40,000 · Public BenefitNATIVE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $40,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC: $35,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Public BenefitTHE TAXPAYERS PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetUS Black Chambers Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK OWNED BROADCASTERS: $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetRural & Agriculture Council of America (RACA): $40,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetFEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $39,090 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Media Institute: $31,200 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCALL FOR ACTION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetINTERFAITH CONFERENCE OF METROPOLIT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MEDIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRACYS KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LATINO COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FARMERS EDUCATIONAL AND COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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

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 National Association of Broadcasters funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Association of Broadcasters. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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