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National Athletic Trainers' Association Inc

The mission of the national athletic trainers' association is to enhance the quality of health care provided by certified athletic trainers and to advance the athletic training profession.

$97k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.

Philanthropy$1.1MRecreation & Sports$940kPublic Benefit$364kHealth$226kCommunity Improvement$142kScience & Tech$53kEmployment$38kEducation$8k
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $62,731 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $97,308 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,577 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.

$46,669
Median grant
2
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY$46,669
SOUTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC TRAINERS' ASSOCIATION$16,062
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA ATA: $15k → 11%ATHLETIC TRAINERS OF MASSACHUSETTS: $25k → 7%ATHLETIC TRAINERS OF MASSACHUSETTS: $17k → 11%MINNESOTA ATA: $49k → 9%MINNESOTA ATA: $21k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA AT SOCIETY: $27k → 10%CALIFORNIA ATA: $127k → 14%NEW YORK STATE ATA: $38k → 9%NATA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FDTN: $382k → 14%SOUTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC TRAINERS' ASSOCIATION: $16k → 12%ARKANSAS ATA: $26k → 14%Kansas Athletic Trainers' Society: $10k → 10%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $47k → 15%MISSOURI ATA: $16k → 15%Oregon Athletic Trainers' Society: $11k → 8%CONNECTICUT ATA: $23k → 7%RHODE ISLAND ATA: $14k → 7%Colorado Athletic Trainers' Association: $24k → 7%INDIANA ATA: $16k → 16%OHIO ATA: $18k → 15%WVATA: $12k → 18%WVATA: $20k → 19%ILLINOIS ATA: $24k → 8%ILLINOIS ATA: $24k → 19%ATSNJ: $23k → 11%ATSNJ: $18k → 12%VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF ATHLETIC TRAINERS: $10k → 9%MARYLAND ATA: $18k → 11%MARYLAND ATA: $15k → 19%ARIZONA ATA: $35k → 11%ATHLETIC TRAINERS OF MASSACHUSETTS: $14k → 11%MINNESOTA ATA: $46k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA AT SOCIETY: $22k → 10%CALIFORNIA ATA: $113k → 14%NEW YORK STATE ATA: $36k → 9%NATA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FDTN: $364k → 14%ARKANSAS ATA: $17k → 14%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $47k → 15%CONNECTICUT ATA: $18k → 7%RHODE ISLAND ATA: $12k → 7%INDIANA ATA: $13k → 16%ILLINOIS ATA: $24k → 19%ATSNJ: $18k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA AT SOCIETY: $16k → 10%CALIFORNIA ATA: $110k → 14%NEW YORK STATE ATA: $33k → 9%NATA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FDTN: $337k → 14%CONNECTICUT ATA: $16k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.
$2.5M · 25 repeat orgs$328k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
14

Total granted

$2.5M
$312k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+0%

Still filing today

44%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyEmploymentHealthRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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

  • CA
    California Athletic Trainers Association
    3× · 2017–2019 · $351k · revenue +4% · 96% of their budget
  • NY
    NEW YORK STATE ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $107k · revenue +144%
  • PA
    PENNSYLVANIA ATHLETIC TRAINERS' SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $65k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $144k · revenue +102%
  • IA
    Illinois Athletic Trainers Association
    one grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue +0%
  • CA
    COLORADO ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $24k

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
Louisiana Athletic Trainers Assn Foundation Inc

The organization's primary exempt purposes are to (1) develop, promote, and maintain high standards for the professionals of athletic training within the state of louisiana; (2) organize, cooperate with, and aid other groups dedicated to…

Education
2
Michigan Athletic Trainers Society Inc

Provide support and professional advancement of athletic trainers and athletic training students in the state of michigan.

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3
Eastern Athletic Trainers Association Inc

The advancement, encouragement, and improvement of the athletic training profession in all of its aspects; to encourage improved working relationships among all persons interested in, and working with, the problems that are inherent in the…

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4
Armed Forces Athletic Trainers Society

Armed forces athletic trainers support for academy members

Civil Rights
5
American Tennis Association

To develop, promote, and showcase opportunities through tennis

Recreation & Sports
6
College Athletic Trainer's Society

The College Athletic Trainers' Society is founded to provide high quality care to our student-athletes; to foster a close working relationship with organizations whose interests are to promote intercollegiate athletics; and to address the…

Education
7
Pro Tech Athletes Coalition
Recreation & Sports
8
Ola Athletic Association
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9
Powerability

Athletic training and education

Human Services
10
American Physical Therapy Association of Massachusetts Inc

Develop and improve physical therapy education, practice, and research.

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11
American Physical Therapy Association Montana Chapter

Apta mts mission is to address the needs and interests of members to promote the highest standards for physical therapy practice education and research and to ensure that the physical therapy profession serves the evolving health and…

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12
Old Timers Athletic Association of Greenwich Connecticut Inc

To promote and support the concepts of sports as part of the educational process

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Carolina Athletic Trainers Association and the most unlike its peers is The University of Connecticut 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.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%50%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,525

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

California Athletic Trainers Association — $350,692 · OtherCalifornia Athletic Trainers AssociationMinnesota Athletic Trainers Associa — $115,463 · OtherMinnesota Athletic Trainers AssociaMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY — $93,338 · OtherMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITYDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION INC — $87,450 · OtherDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION …PENNSYLVANIA ATHLETIC TRAINERS' SOCIETY INC — $65,494 · OtherATHLETIC TRAINERS SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY — $58,500 · OtherCONNECTICUT ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION INC — $56,959 · OtherARIZONA ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · OtherILLINOIS ATA — $48,000 · Other+19 more — $378,347 · Other+19 moreNATIONAL ATHLETIC TRAINERS' ASSOCIATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,082,555 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ATHLETIC TRAINERS' ASSOCIATION RE…THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $144,000 · EducationAthletic Trainers of Massachusetts Inc — $55,198 · Community ImprovementOHIO ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION — $28,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION — $16,062 · Community ImprovementLouisiana Athletic Trainers Association — $14,000 · Community ImprovementHAWAII ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION — $9,834 · Community ImprovementGEORGIA ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION INC — $8,750 · Community ImprovementNorth Carolina Athletic Training Assoc — $5,216 · Community ImprovementNEW YORK STATE ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION — $106,922 · EmploymentARKANSAS ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION — $52,536 · HealthHawaii Athletic Trainers Association — $25,996 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,304,243Philanthropy$1,082,555Education$144,000Community Improvement$137,060Employment$106,922Health$52,536Recreation & Sports$25,996

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL ATHLETIC TRAINERS' ASSOCIATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,082,555 over 3y, 36% of budgetCalifornia Athletic Trainers Association — $350,692 over 3y, 96% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $144,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Athletic Trainers Associa — $115,463 over 3y, 56% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ATHLETIC TRAINERS' SOCIETY INC — $65,494 over 3y, 12% of budgetATHLETIC TRAINERS SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY — $58,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA — $39,224 over 3y, 13% of budgetINDIANA ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION INC — $29,200 over 2y, 12% of budgetOHIO ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION — $28,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetHawaii Athletic Trainers Association — $25,996 over 2y, 59% of budgetWisconsin Athletic Trainers Association Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION — $16,062 over 1y, 21% of budgetVirginia Athletic Trainers Association — $8,750 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetGEORGIA ATHLETIC TRAINERS ASSOCIATION INC — $8,750 over 1y, 17% of budgetNorth Carolina Athletic Training Assoc — $5,216 over 1y, 7.9% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Great Lakes Athletic …
Great Lakes Athletic Trainers AssociatiIL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Athletic Trainers' Association Inc 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.

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no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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