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National Confectioners Association of the United States Inc at a glance

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National Confectioners Association of the United States Inc

Nca's mission is to serve as the trusted voice and champion of the confectionery industry, unwrapping extraordinary opportunities for candy makers and stakeholders connected to this unique and special category.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$149k
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 2025.

Community Improvement$4.7MFood & Nutrition$608kPublic Benefit$373kArts & Culture$149kHealth$110kYouth Development$90kEducation$90kEnvironment$61kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $964,361, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,039,975 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $75,614 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $494k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $421k
$20,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWN & HALEY$149,073
TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES$100,000
THE GINGER NETWORK$62,500
ALBANESE CONFECTIONS$59,699
UNIV OF WISC FOUNDATION$50,000
VERMINTS INC$47,634
ORIGINAL GOURMET$42,000
GREAT VALLEY PUBLISHING$39,655
WINDY CITY PRODUCTIONS$35,000
AMERICAN LICORICE$30,000
NANCY TRINGALI ASSOCIATES$30,000
WAREHOUSE PRODUCTIONS LLC$25,000
CPG CATNET INC (ARC)$25,000
CROPLIFE AMERICA$25,000
C HOWARD CO INC$22,250
02The need
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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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VERMINTS INC: $48k → 7%JELLY BELLY CANDY COMPANY: $141k → 10%BAZOOKA CANDY BRANDS: $165k → 17%VOTEWATER INC: $40k → 10%YOWIE NORTH AMERICA: $114k → 15%IMPACT CONFECTIONS: $35k → 10%PIEDMONT: $39k → 13%ALBANESE CONFECTIONS: $93k → 15%AMERICAN LICORICE: $91k → 15%FORD GUM: $38k → 8%WINDY CITY PRODUCTIONS: $35k → 4%ORIGINAL GOURMET: $49k → 5%VERMINTS INC: $39k → 7%JELLY BELLY: $105k → 10%ADAMS & BROOKS: $32k → 14%BAZOOKA CANDY BRANDS: $153k → 17%YOWIE NORTH AMERICA: $79k → 15%ALBANESE CONFECTIONS: $60k → 15%AMERICAN LICORICE: $84k → 15%THE GINGER NETWORK: $63k → 7%ORIGINAL GOURMET: $42k → 5%VERMINTS INC: $38k → 7%JELLY BELLY CANDY COMPANY: $75k → 10%BAZOOKA CANDY BRANDS: $59k → 17%YOWIE NORTH AMERICA: $64k → 15%ALBANESE CONFECTIONS: $45k → 15%AMERICAN LICORICE: $82k → 15%ORIGINAL GOURMET: $32k → 5%VERMINTS INC: $38k → 7%JELLY BELLY: $55k → 10%BAZOOKA CANDY BRANDS: $56k → 17%YOWIE NORTH AMERICA: $57k → 15%ALBANESE CONFECTIONS: $43k → 15%AMERICAN LICORICE: $68k → 15%ACADEMY OF NUTRITION DIETETICS: $40k → 14%ORIGINAL GOURMET: $30k → 5%VERMINTS INC: $35k → 7%YOWIE NORTH AMERICA: $55k → 15%ALBANESE CONFECTIONS: $43k → 15%AMERICAN LICORICE: $30k → 15%ACADEMY OF NUTRITION DIETETICS - FNCE: $35k → 14%VERMINTS INC: $30k → 7%YOWIE NORTH AMERICA: $53k → 15%HAWAIIAN HOST INC: $44k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%NANCY TRINGALI ASSOCIATES: $30k → 14%TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES: $100k → 14%WHITE HOUSE TREASURER: $100k → 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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 39 repeat orgs$849k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
22

Total granted

$5.3M
$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

18%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $463k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AO
    ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
    3× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +4%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +68%
  • RS
    R STREET INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • WH
    WHITE HOUSE TREASURER
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +10%
  • VI
    VOTEWATER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +22%
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
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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2
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
3
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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4
Council for Responsible Nutrition

To protect and advance a climate for our members to responsibly create and market science-based dietary supplements, functional food, and their ingredients, for better human health and nutrition.

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5
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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6
Council for Higher Education Accreditation

The council is dedicated to serving students and their families, colleges and universities, sponsoring bodies, governments and employers by promoting academic quality through formal recognition of higher education accrediting bodies and…

Education
7
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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8
Center for Science in the Public Interest

The center for science in the public interest is america's food and health watchdog. cspi envisions a healthy population with reduced impact and burden of preventable diseases and an equitable food system that makes healthy, sustainable…

Food & Nutrition
9
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

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

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10
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
11
Natural Gas Supply Association

The object and purpose of the association is to promote sound federal and state laws and regulations pertaining to the natural gas industry, the equitable and effective administration of such laws and regulations, and to educate and inform…

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12
National Association for College Admission Counseling

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures; the most unlike its peers is Chemistries of Heated Carbohydrates Consortium. 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

23 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. 23 of the 78 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWN & HALEY: $1,489,479 · OtherBROWN & HALEYBAZOOKA CANDY BRANDS: $483,792 · OtherBAZOOKA CANDY BRANDSYOWIE NORTH AMERICA: $460,655 · OtherYOWIE NORTH AMERICAJELLY BELLY CANDY COMPANY: $376,401 · OtherJELLY BELLY CANDY COMPANYAMERICAN LICORICE: $355,671 · OtherAMERICAN LICORICEALBANESE CONFECTIONS: $330,380 · OtherALBANESE CONFECTIONSORIGINAL GOURMET: $269,978 · OtherVERMINTS INC: $254,897 · Other+55 more: $1,736,703 · Other+55 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationR STREET INSTITUTE: $20,000 · EducationAMERICAN COMMITMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC: $70,000 · Public BenefitNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $15,000 · Public BenefitCOUNCIL FOR CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $10,000 · Public BenefitWASHINGTON PRESS CLUB FOUNDATION: $38,000 · Arts & CultureWINDY CITY PRODUCTIONS: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureVOTEWATER INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentFriends of the National Arboretum: $10,000 · EnvironmentPartnership for a Healthier America Inc: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA: $10,000 · HealthACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Health
Other$5,757,956Education$120,000Public Benefit$95,000Arts & Culture$93,000Environment$50,000Youth Development$37,500Health$17,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe National Press Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOTEWATER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetWASHINGTON PRESS CLUB FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPartnership for a Healthier America Inc: $37,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWINDY CITY PRODUCTIONS: $35,000 over 1y, 92% of budgetCHEMISTRIES OF HEATED CARBOHYDRATES CONSORTIUM: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the National Arboretum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds The National Press Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VOTEWATER INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON PRESS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Partnership for a Healthier America Inc ↗
  • Who funds WINDY CITY PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds CROPLIFE AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CHEMISTRIES OF HEATED CARBOHYDRATES CONSORTIUM ↗

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.

Pharmaceutical Resear…Association for Acces…Ncta - the Internet &…American Petroleum In…The Pew Charitable Tr…Walton Family Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC15.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Association for Accessible Medicines · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · American Petroleum Institute · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Walton Family Foundation Inc · 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 Confectioners Association of the United States Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Confectioners Association of the United States Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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