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National Board of Chiropractic Examiners at a glance

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National Board of Chiropractic Examiners

Preparation and administration of national licensure examinations for the chiropractic profession.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$823k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$6.9MSocial Science$1.0MEmployment$660kScience & Tech$70kInternational$9k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,111,168, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,162,168 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $51,000 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $162k
  • $250k+1 grant · $823k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS (FCLB)$823,168
ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES INC (ACC)$162,000
BRIGHTHALL INC$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN STATES$25,000
CLINICAL COMPASS$25,000
WOMEN CHIROPRACTORS$10,000
MISSION LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC$9,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHIROPRACTIC TENETS AND SERVICES INC$9,000
FOUNDATION FOR CHIROPRACTIC PROGRESS (F4CP)$8,000
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 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FOUNDATION FOR CHIROPRACTIC PROGRESS: $615k → 8%BRIGHTHALL INC: $40k → 11%MISSION LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $9k → 17%NCMIC FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%WOMEN CHIROPRACTORS: $10k → 8%WOMEN CHIROPRACTORS: $15k → 21%CONGRESS OF CHIROPRACTIC STATE ASSOCIATION: $250k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN STATES: $25k → 12%FEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS: $839k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHIROPRACTIC TENETS AND SERVICES INC: $26k → 6%ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES INC (ACC): $162k → 7%ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES: $211k → 8%FOUNDATION FOR CHIROPRACTIC PROGRESS (F4CP): $35k → 8%BRIGHTHALL INC: $10k → 11%WOMEN CHIROPRACTORS: $10k → 21%CONGRESS OF CHIROPRACTIC STATE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 8%FEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS (FCLB): $824k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHIROPRACTIC TENETS AND SERVICES INC: $9k → 6%ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES (ACC): $149k → 8%FOUNDATION FOR CHIROPRACTIC PROGRESS (F4CP): $15k → 8%BRIGHTHALL INC: $10k → 11%WOMEN CHIROPRACTORS: $9k → 21%FEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS (FCLB): $823k → 9%ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES: $100k → 8%FOUNDATION FOR CHIROPRACTIC PROGRESS: $15k → 8%BRIGHTHALL INC: $10k → 11%FEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS: $677k → 9%ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES: $11k → 8%FOUNDATION FOR CHIROPRACTIC PROGRESS: $15k → 8%FEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS: $655k → 9%ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES: $11k → 8%FEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS: $654k → 9%ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES: $11k → 8%FEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS: $602k → 9%ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES: $11k → 8%FEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS: $599k → 9%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

MI
NY
OR
IA
CA
CO
VA
MD
SC
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 7 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$7.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+241%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
HealthPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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

  • FO
    FEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +51% · 65% of their budget
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CHIROPRACTIC PROGRES
    6× · 2017–2024 · $703k · revenue -24%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $666k · revenue +40% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • The Rand Corporation
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
  • NF
    NCMIC FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +241%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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 Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association

Chiropractic education

Arts & Culture
2
Life Chiropractic College West

To advance chiropractic through personalized learning, technique and pedagogic excellence, philosophical inquiry, entrepreneurial spirit and compassionate service. to lead chiropractic education with cultural authority in the profession,…

Education
3
American Chiropractic Association Inc

The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) was formed to serve as a representative membership organization for the chiropractic profession.

Health
4
Foundation for Chiropractic Education

Educate the public regarding the beneifts of chriopractic care.

Education
5
Christian Chiropractors Association

The association organizes and supports u.s. chiropractic missionaries in both domestic and foreign posts, supplies inner-city shelters with available chiropractors, provdies professional and spiritual counsel to its members

Health
6
Life University Inc

Life university is a not-for-profit educational institution.

Education
7
Texas Chiropractic Association Inc

Membership association providing members with the resources, information and leadership that enable them to provide chiropractic services in the highest professional manner.

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8
Onechiropractic Inc

To maximize the success and well-being of the individual chiropractor, the chiropractic profession and those we serve.

Community Improvement
9
Texas Chiropractic College

Texas chiropractic college (tcc) provides qualified students a patient-centered educational program leading to the doctor of chiropractic degree. the curriculum promotes the development of the student's attitudes, knowledge, and skills…

—
10
Sacro Occipital Research Society in

Chiropractic education and research

Health
11
Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic

Our mission at sherman college of chiropractic is to provide exceptional preparation for the location, analysis and adjustment of vertebral subluxation.

Education
12
Congress of Neurological Surgeons Inc

The cns exists to enhance health and improve lives through the advancement of neurosurgical education and scientific exchange.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Congress of Chiropractic State Associations; the most unlike its peers is Ncmic 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS: $5,674,783 · Public BenefitFEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDSThe Rand Corporation: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitThe Rand CorporationASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES INC: $665,515 · OtherASSOCIATION O…CONGRESS OF CHIROPRACTIC STATE ASSOCIATIONS: $275,000 · OtherCONGRESS OF C…BRIGHTHALL INC: $70,000 · OtherBRIGHTHALL IN…+2 more: $50,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR CHIROPRACTIC PROGRES: $703,000 · HealthFOUNDATION …NCMIC FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthNCMIC FOUND…WOMEN CHIROPRACTORS: $44,000 · Health+2 more: $50,000 · Health+2 moreMISSION LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,000 · International
Public Benefit$6,674,783Other$1,060,515Health$897,000International$9,000

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 budgetFEDERATION OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSING BOARDS: $5,674,783 over 8y, 65% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CHIROPRACTIC PROGRES: $703,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES INC: $665,515 over 8y, 28% of budgetCONGRESS OF CHIROPRACTIC STATE ASSOCIATIONS: $275,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetNCMIC FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetWOMEN CHIROPRACTORS: $44,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetUniversity of Western States: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON CHIROPRACTIC GUIDELINES AND PRACTICE PARAMETERS: $25,000 over 1y, 20% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Board of Chiropractic Examiners funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • University of Western States: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to National Board of Chiropractic Examiners through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 13 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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