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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 FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.2M
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.

Employment$8.1MEnvironment$1.8MCommunity Improvement$685kArts & Culture$151kFood & Nutrition$28kPublic Benefit$25kHealth$15kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $1,796,527, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,430,563 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,634,036 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $136k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$135,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NACS FOUNDATION$1,228,527
TRANSPORTATION ENERGY INSTITUTE$400,000
HISPANIC LEADERSHIP FUND$135,500
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FUND$25,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR FOOD SAFETY EDUCATION$7,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HISPANIC LEADERSHIP FUND: $136k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR WOMENS CANCER: $5k → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR FOOD SAFETY EDUCATION: $8k → 7%FOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE: $5k → 9%HISPANIC LEADERSHIP FUND: $15k → 14%FOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC: $5k → 9%AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FUND: $25k → 14%THE NACS FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 9%CONSUMER ENERGY ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%THE NACS FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 9%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE NACS FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 9%FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER: $5k → 14%THE NACS FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 9%FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER: $5k → 14%THE NACS FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 9%THE NACS FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 9%TRANSPORTATION ENERGY INSTITUTE: $400k → 9%CONEXXUS: $365k → 9%THE FUELS INSTITUTE: $200k → 9%THE FUELS INSTITUTE: $200k → 9%THE FUELS INSTITUTE: $200k → 9%TRANSPORTATION ENERGY INSTITUTE: $200k → 9%TRANSPORTATION ENERGY INSTITUTE: $200k → 9%THE FUELS INSTITUTE: $200k → 9%THE FUELS INSTITUTE: $200k → 9%MERCHANTS PAYMENTS COALITION INC: $150k → 9%MERCHANTS PAYMENTS COALITION INC: $150k → 9%CONEXXUS: $21k → 9%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 7 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +60% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$11M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+60%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
Food & NutritionCivil RightsEmploymentHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • TE
    TRANSPORTATION ENERGY INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +147%
  • C
    CONEXXUS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $385k · revenue +52%
  • TH
    The Hispanic Leadership Fund Inc
    2× · 2022–2024 · $151k · revenue +104% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • NG
    NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +60%
  • CB
    CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • FF
    Foundation for Womens Cancer
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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.

1
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.

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2
American Culinary Federation Inc

Promoting excellence, education, professionalism and collegiality in the culinary profession

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3
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

To advance the business and policy interests of america's cooperatives and other farmer-owned enterprises.

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4
Minnesota Grocers Association

The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…

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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 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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7
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
8
Council for Responsible Nutrition

To protect and advance a climate for our members to responsibly create and market science-based dietary supplements, functional food, and their ingredients, for better human health and nutrition.

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9
The National Association of College and University Food Services

To promote excellence in campus dining, provide conference and tradeshow venues, and educational programs for professional development. As well as offer surveys for business practices and benchmarking.

Education
10
National Association of College Stores

Nacs works to successfully integrate the collegiate retail industry into the higher education ecosystem through advocacy, strategic partnerships, innovative direction, education, and resources that support student academic success and the…

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11
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

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

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12
American Farm Bureau Federation

The american farm bureau federation is the voice of agriculture (r). we are farm and ranch families working together to build a sustainable future of safe and abundant food, fiber and renewable fuel for our nation and the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Research & Action Center; the most unlike its peers is Conexxus. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NACS FOUNDATION: $8,109,181 · EmploymentTHE NACS FOUNDATIONTRANSPORTATION ENERGY INSTITUTE: $1,800,000 · OtherTRANSPORTATION ENERGY …MERCHANTS PAYMENTS COALITION INC: $300,000 · OtherMERCHANTS PAYMENTS COA…+2 more: $15,000 · OtherCONEXXUS: $385,382 · Community ImprovementThe Hispanic Leadership Fund Inc: $150,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Leadership Fund Inc: $25,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsFood Research & Action Center: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPartnership for Food Safety Education Inc: $7,500 · Food & NutritionFOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC: $10,000 · Health
Employment$8,109,181Other$2,115,000Community Improvement$385,382Arts & Culture$150,500Civil Rights$35,000Food & Nutrition$17,500Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Association of Convenience Stores funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Association of Convenience Stores. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 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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