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National Association of Convenience Stores

The mission of nacs is to represent the convenience and petroleum retailing industry and to provide the knowledge, connections, and advocacy necessary to assist our members in maximizing their effectiveness and profitability.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.8M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$135,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,228,527
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$79M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations National Association of Convenience Stores funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EmploymentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$1.8M40%
FY20233$1.7M33%
FY20226$1.8M33%
FY20214$1.8M50%
FY20202$1.7M0%
FY20192$1.6M50%
FY20184$215k25%
FY20173$210kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Employment$8.1MEnvironment$1.8MCommunity Improvement$685kArts & Culture$151kFood & Nutrition$28kPublic Benefit$25kHealth$15kCivil Rights$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Nacs Foundation$8,109,181699%
Transportation Energy Institute$1,800,000824%
Conexxus$385,382218%
Merchants Payments Coalition Inc$300,0002n/a
The Hispanic Leadership Fund Inc$150,500225%
American Leadership Fund Inc$25,00010%
National Grocers Association$10,00010%
Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne Inc$10,00021%
Food Research & Action Center$10,00020%
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc$10,00010%
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All grantees of National Association of Convenience Stores by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Nacs Foundation$8,109,181699%
Transportation Energy Institute$1,800,000824%
Conexxus$385,382218%
Merchants Payments Coalition Inc$300,0002n/a
The Hispanic Leadership Fund Inc$150,500225%
American Leadership Fund Inc$25,00010%
National Grocers Association$10,00010%
Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne Inc$10,00021%
Food Research & Action Center$10,00020%
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Partnership for Food Safety Education Inc$7,50012%
Foundation for Womens Cancer$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

National Association of Convenience Stores supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Nacs Foundation: $8,109,181 over 6y, 99% of budgetTransportation Energy Institute: $1,800,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetConexxus: $385,382 over 2y, 18% of budgetThe Hispanic Leadership Fund Inc: $150,500 over 2y, 25% of budgetAmerican Leadership Fund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Grocers Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation to Eradicate Duchenne Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFood Research & Action Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCongressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership for Food Safety Education Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About National Association of Convenience Stores

How much does National Association of Convenience Stores give?
National Association of Convenience Stores reported 5 itemized grants totaling $1,796,527, out of $5,430,563 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does National Association of Convenience Stores fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (75%), Environment (17%), Community Improvement (6%).
Who are National Association of Convenience Stores's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Nacs Foundation ($8.1M), Transportation Energy Institute ($1.8M), Conexxus ($385k).
Does National Association of Convenience Stores fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Association of Convenience Stores?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is National Association of Convenience Stores based?
National Association of Convenience Stores is based in VA.

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 12 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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