Skip to content
National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers

To service our membership through strong, trusted relationships between shooting sports buyers and sellers.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
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.

Recreation & Sports$430kCivil Rights$175kEmployment$160kHealth$75kYouth Development$25k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN SUPPRESSOR ASSOCIATION$25,000
WALK THE TALK AMERICA INC$25,000
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION$25,000
YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS ALLIANCE$25,000
NSSF PROTECT LIBERTY PAC$25,000
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS ALLIANCE: $25k → 12%CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUND: $25k → 14%NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUND: $30k → 9%AMERICAN SUPPRESSOR ASSOCIATION: $25k → 13%SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION NRA-ILA: $50k → 6%WALK THE TALK AMERICA: $25k → 13%YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS ALLIANCE INC: $25k → 12%YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS ALLIANCE: $25k → 12%CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%NSSF PROTECT LIBERTY PAC: $25k → 9%AMERICAN SUPPRESSOR ASSOCIATION: $25k → 13%NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION NRA-ILA: $50k → 6%WALK THE TALK AMERICA INC: $25k → 13%YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS ALLIANCE: $25k → 12%YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS ALLIANCE INC: $25k → 12%CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%AMERICAN SUPPRESSOR ASSOCIATION: $25k → 13%NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION NRA-ILA: $25k → 6%WALK THE TALK AMERICA INC: $25k → 13%CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUND: $25k → 14%NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUND: $25k → 9%AMERICAN SUPPRESSOR ASSOCIATION: $25k → 13%CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUND: $25k → 14%NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%AMERICAN SUPPRESSOR ASSOCIATION: $25k → 13%CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AMERICAN SUPPRESSOR ASSOCIATION: $25k → 13%CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AMERICAN SUPPRESSOR ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%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
NV
CT
NE
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$815k · 6 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$815k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEmploymentYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • CS
    CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +20%
  • AS
    AMERICAN SUPPRESSOR ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +157%
  • NS
    NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • SA
    SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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
04the grantee network

7 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $175,000 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATIONNATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 · OtherNATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION INCNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $125,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIA…SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Civil RightsSECOND AMENDMENT FOUND…AMERICAN SUPPRESSOR ASSOCIATION: $160,000 · EmploymentAMERICAN SUPPRESSOR …YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS ALLIANCE INC: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH SHOOTING S…WALK THE TALK AMERICA: $75,000 · HealthWALK THE …
Other$330,000Civil Rights$175,000Employment$160,000Youth Development$125,000Health$75,000

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 budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN SUPPRESSOR ASSOCIATION: $160,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetNATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS ALLIANCE INC: $125,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetWALK THE TALK AMERICA: $75,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetSECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 7 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers’ filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home