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· Public charity
National Association of Regional
As a national public interest org, narc will work with & through its members to (1) shape federal policy (2) advocate effectively for the role of regional councils (3) provide research & analysis of key issues and developments, & (4) offer high quality learning opportunities.
$495k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants
7
Communities
$106k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of National Association of Regional’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2018 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $266k
$26,180
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- meister consultants group in$106,084
- Electrification Coalition$93,687
- mid america regional council$66,719
- metropolitan energy center$49,549
- Metropolitan area planning co$37,807
- clean communities of central$26,180
- Tucson Regional Clean Cities$19,496
- North Central Texas council$15,210
- Metropolitan Washington counc$14,987
- utah clean cities$11,380
- American Forests$7,557
- pima association of governmen$5,572
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 96% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 11 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +193% since the first grant, against -66% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
5
Total granted
$1.0M
$134k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+193%
-66%
Still filing today
64%
20%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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
- MAmid america regional council2× · 2017–2018 · $247k · revenue +193%
- ECElectrification Coalition2× · 2017–2018 · $141k · revenue +325%
- MEmetropolitan energy center2× · 2017–2018 · $93k · revenue +344%
Funded once
- NANational Asssociation for theone grant, 2017 · $59k
- YAYborra & Associates LLCone grant, 2017 · $31k
- TPthe primax groupone grant, 2017 · $21k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Clean Fuels Michigan
To accelerate the transition to clean transportation in michigan. we advocate for the suite of alternative fuels including biofuels, hydrogen, propane, natural gas, and electric vehicles.
Community Improvement
2
Greater Washington Region Clean Cities
Promotes the use of clean, and alternative american transportation fuels for homeland security and improved air quality.
Environment
3
Clean Air Council
Clean Air Council is a publicly supported environmental organization serving Pennsylvania and surrounding regions. It is dedicated to protecting and defending everyones right to breathe clean air.
Environment
4
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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5
Coalition for Green Capital
To halt climate change by accelerating investment in clean energy technologies.
Environment
6
Washington Clean Technology Alliance
CleanTech Alliance represents more than 1000 member companies and organizations across the region.
Community Improvement
7
Center for Clean Air Policy
Advancing clean energy, climate change, and air quality solutions.
Environment
8
Clean Energy Group Inc
Clean Energy Group promotes effective clean energy policies, develops low carbon technology innovation strategies and promotes new financial tools to strengthen the economy and stabilize climate change.
Environment
9
Virginia Energy Efficiency Council
Advance energy efficiency
Environment
10
Coalition for Clean Air
To protect public health, improve air quality and prevent climate change
Environment
11
The Climate Center
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Education
12
Clean Energy States Alliance Inc
Technical support to States clean energy agencies.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Electrification Coalition Foundation and the most unlike its peers is North Central Texas Council of Governments Foundation 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$502,250Environment$252,782Community Improvement$247,424Public Benefit$150,249Education$20,006
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 mid america regional council ↗
- Who funds Electrification Coalition ↗
- Who funds metropolitan energy center ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Washington counc ↗
- Who funds North Central Texas council ↗
- Who funds pima association of governmen ↗
- Who funds utah clean cities ↗
- Who funds clean fuels ohio ↗
- Who funds American Forests ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation National Association of Regional 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: mid america regional council.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 201824454 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on mid america regional council, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to National Association of Regional?
Find your warmest path to National Association of Regional through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines