Wisconsin · Public charity
National Credit Union Foundation
The NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION envisions a world where everyone can achieve financial well-being. We exist to improve financial well-being with and through credit unions. We do this through two strategic priorities. First, we inspire and educate credit union professionals about financial well-being and the credit union mission.…
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $717k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,654
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $92,338
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations National Credit Union Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $636k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $420k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $347k | 74% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $223k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $174k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $341k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $880k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern Credit Union Foundation | $675,167 | 3 | 41% |
| New York Credit Union Foundation | $618,125 | 6 | 65% |
| Biz Kid Enterprises LLC | $410,000 | 7 | n/a |
| California Credit Union League | $151,655 | 5 | 1% |
| Oklahomas Credit Union | $134,676 | 2 | n/a |
| League of Southeastern Credit Unions | $133,199 | 3 | 1% |
| Inclusiv Inc | $114,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Credit Union Association of the Dakotas | $111,807 | 4 | 6% |
| Rize Credit Union | $105,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Attune Insights Inc | $85,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 77 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
National Credit Union Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Inclusiv Inc · Gowest Foundation · AARP · The Ford Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About National Credit Union Foundation
- How much does National Credit Union Foundation give?
- National Credit Union Foundation reported 22 itemized grants totaling $717,470, out of $1,168,662 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does National Credit Union Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (50%), Community Improvement (18%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are National Credit Union Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southeastern Credit Union Foundation ($675k), New York Credit Union Foundation ($618k), Biz Kid Enterprises LLC ($410k).
- Does National Credit Union Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Credit Union Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inclusiv Inc, Gowest Foundation, AARP.
- Where is National Credit Union Foundation based?
- National Credit Union Foundation is based in WI.
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