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National Defense Industrial Association
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- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $308k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $98M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations National Defense Industrial Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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 | 20 | $308k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $124k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $77k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $75k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $131k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $117k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $179k | 93% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $105k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute | $185,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Service Organizations Inc | $139,516 | 5 | 0% |
| USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore Inc | $106,698 | 3 | 2% |
| Emerald Coast Science Center Inc | $55,974 | 6 | 3% |
| University of Florida | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Florida State University Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Air Camp Inc | $36,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Higher Orbits Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hudsonalpha Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Troy University Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
National Defense Industrial Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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: Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About National Defense Industrial Association
- How much does National Defense Industrial Association give?
- National Defense Industrial Association reported 20 itemized grants totaling $307,662, out of $1,010,395 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does National Defense Industrial Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Public Benefit (24%), Education (16%).
- Who are National Defense Industrial Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute ($185k), United Service Organizations Inc ($140k), USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore Inc ($107k).
- Does National Defense Industrial Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Defense Industrial Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is National Defense Industrial Association based?
- National Defense Industrial Association is based in VA.
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