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· 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.

$700k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$115k
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.

Public Benefit$841kCommunity Improvement$407kEnvironment$258kSocial Science$170kHealth$136kCrime & Legal$66kEducation$35kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $210,967, the rows itemized in this filing. The $699,737 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $488,770 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.
$114,810
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY BUILDERS$114,810
WV Community Devel Hub$96,157
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Coconino County: $100k → 16%NEBRASKA CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%RAMSEY COUNTY: $11k → 14%COUNTY OF DAUPHIN - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH: $25k → 12%COUNTY OF ERIE: $100k → 15%City and County of Honolulu: $100k → 9%NYSAC: $10k → 14%CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $30k → 17%SOUTHWEST TEXAS REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL: $15k → 16%County of El Paso: $100k → 21%JUDGE DAVID L BAZELON CTR FOR MENTAL HLTH LAW: $30k → 14%CRADLE TO CAREER ALLIANCE: $25k → 17%ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOODPLAIN MNG INC: $84k → 10%Multnomah County: $100k → 12%THE CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF WATAUGA COUNTY: $25k → 21%CCAO RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%WASHINGTON STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES: $10k → 9%TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $11k → 9%COUNTY OF KITTITAS: $100k → 11%WV Community Devel Hub: $96k → 18%TARRANT COUNTY COMMISSIONER COURT: $11k → 7%TASC INC: $30k → 14%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION: $25k → 19%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $15k → 7%NATIONAL SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION: $15k → 9%WASHINGTON COUNTY VA: $25k → 11%MARYLAND NONPROFITS: $10k → 19%DAUPHIN COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA-DEPT OF MENTAL HEALTH: $11k → 12%COASTAL STATES ORGANIZATION: $49k → 14%CRADLE TO CAREER ALLIANCE: $11k → 17%ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOOD PLAN MANAGER INC: $41k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF WATAUGA: $11k → 21%WV COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUB: $35k → 18%WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA: $11k → 11%NADO RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $48k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS INC: $27k → 10%NADO RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $44k → 14%WISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 10%NADO RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $39k → 14%COASTAL STATES ORGANIZATION: $28k → 14%COASTAL STATES ORGANIZATION: $25k → 14%National Association of Regional Councils: $19k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGIONAL COUNCILS: $13k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGIONAL COUNCILS: $13k → 14%COASTAL STATES ORGANIZATION: $7k → 14%THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $73k → 14%THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE: $56k → 14%THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $41k → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
OH
PA
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$883k · 10 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
24

Total granted

$883k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
+33%

Still filing today

70%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
Community ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitSocial ScienceCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TB
    THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $170k · revenue +70%
  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $152k · revenue +42%
  • NA
    National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation
    4× · 2017–2021 · $151k · revenue +309%

Funded once

  • CA
    City and County of Honolulu
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • PB
    PALM BEACH COUNTY DIVISION OF SENIOR SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • WH
    WILLIAMS HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF COCONINO COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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 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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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
National Association for College Admission Counseling

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

Education
4
The National Association of State Workforce Agencies

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.

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5
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.

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6
Nd Association of Counties

NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.

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7
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
8
National Association of State Budget Officers

To encourage study and research in state budgeting, to exchange information and promote cooperation toward more effective budget preparation and management, and to attain greater efficiency and economy of programs and services though…

Philanthropy
9
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

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

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10
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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11
National Association of County and City Health Officals

The national association of county and city health officials' (naccho) mission is to be a leader, partner, catalyst, and voice for local public health departments in order to ensure the conditions that promote equity and health, to combat…

Unclassified
12
Council On Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs

To establish standards that promote quality education in nurse anesthesia programs through accreditation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COASTAL STATES ORGANIZATION INC: $109,018 · OtherCOASTAL STATES ORGANIZATION INCCity and County of Honolulu: $100,000 · OtherCity and County of HonoluluPALM BEACH COUNTY DIVISION OF SENIOR SERVICES: $100,000 · OtherPALM BEACH COUNTY DIVISION OF SENIOR SERVICESWILLIAMS HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF COCONINO COUNTY: $100,000 · OtherWILLIAMS HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF COCONINO COUNTYEL PASO COUNTY: $100,000 · OtherEL PASO COUNTYHENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $100,000 · OtherHENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARYMultnomah County Joint Office of Homeless Services: $100,000 · OtherMultnomah County Joint Office of Homeless ServicesCOUNTY OF ERIE: $100,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF ERIEKITTITAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $100,000 · OtherKITTITAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE+12 more: $267,000 · Other+12 moreNational Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation: $151,058 · Community ImprovementNational Association o…WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUB INC: $131,022 · Community ImprovementWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNIT…COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $114,810 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY BUILDERS+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $169,875 · Social ScienceTHE BROOK…THE ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS INC: $152,070 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES: $30,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST TEXAS REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL: $15,000 · HealthNAMI National: $15,000 · HealthNational Association of Regional Councils: $26,211 · Public BenefitCCAO Research & Educational Foundation: $10,000 · Public BenefitCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterWASHINGTON STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY O OFFICIALS: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,176,018Community Improvement$406,890Social Science$169,875Philanthropy$162,070Health$60,000Public Benefit$36,211Housing & Shelter$30,000Crime & Legal$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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $169,875 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS INC: $152,070 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNational Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation: $151,058 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUB INC: $131,022 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY BUILDERS: $114,810 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOASTAL STATES ORGANIZATION INC: $109,018 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetCradle to Career Alliance: $36,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF WATAUGA COUNTY INC: $36,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDGE DAVID L BAZELON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Association of Regional Councils: $26,211 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST TEXAS REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCCAO Research & Educational Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY O OFFICIALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Center for Technology…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Center for Technology and Civic LifeIL22.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Counties Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Association of Counties Research Foundation. 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 →median 27%
  • Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 35 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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