· Public charity
National Association of Counties Research Foundation
To ascertain, develop and distribute knowledge about county government for the education of the public generally and for the education and training of public officials and prospective public officials.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $210,967 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $699,737 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $488,770 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY BUILDERS | $114,810 |
| WV Community Devel Hub | $96,157 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TBTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION3× · 2021–2023 · $170k · revenue +70%
- TATHE ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS INC3× · 2018–2020 · $152k · revenue +42%
- NANational Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation4× · 2017–2021 · $151k · revenue +309%
Funded once
- MCMultnomah County Joint Office of Homeless Servicesone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CACity and County of Honoluluone grant, 2021 · $100k
- HCHENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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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Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
The national association of state workforce agencies (naswa) mission is to enhance the state workforce agencies' ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities.
To ascertain, develop and distribute knowledge about county government for the education of the public generally and for the education and training of public officials and prospective public officials.
NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
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Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
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To establish standards that promote quality education in nurse anesthesia programs through accreditation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations and the most unlike its peers is Cradle to Career Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS INC ↗
- Who funds National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUB INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds COASTAL STATES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF WATAUGA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Cradle to Career Alliance ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds JUDGE DAVID L BAZELON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW ↗
- Who funds TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds National Association of Regional Councils ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST TEXAS REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY O OFFICIALS ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CCAO Research & Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Center for Technology and Civic Life · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Counties Research Foundation 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.
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
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.