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National Defense Industrial Association
As the world's trusted leader in professional national security and defense associations, ndia convenes the most thoughtful and innovative leaders to advance and advocate for best practices, initiatives, and products in defense, to ensure the safety and security of our nation, its allies and partners.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $124,123 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $837,537 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $713,414 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOB HOPE USO | $38,123 |
| AIRCAMP | $10,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $10,000 |
| EMERALD COAST SCIENCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| AIR FORCE ARMAMENT MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
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
- TRTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE3× · 2018–2020 · $185k · revenue +13%
- ECEMERALD COAST SCIENCE CENTER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +84%
- ACAIR CAMP INC3× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- TUTROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +6%
- EWEOD WARRIOR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +30%
- HAHABILITATION AND TRAINING SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Air university foundation seeks to raise funds to provide financial assistance to air university schools and agencies for the advancement of the study of air and space power.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
We educate the american public to their military heritage through the story of the u.s. army aviation's soldiers and machines. we connect the american soldier to the american public as an active, accepted, and admired member of the…
The mission of the sac museum is to celebrate our heritage, preserve our artifacts, and inspire learning.
Help the naval war college to: a. develop strategic and operational leaders: provide professional military education programs that are current, rigorous, relevant, and accessible to the maximum number of qualified u.s. officers and navy…
The afcea educational foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing educational incentives, opportunities and assistance for people engaged in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) disciplines…
The air force memorial foundation was created to honor our airmen and preserve air force heritage by providing support to the air force memorial. effective march 1, 2017, the united states air force assumed responsibility for the…
The airborne & special operations museum foundation will provide marketing and advertising efforts to the non-miltary community in support of the ongoing mission of the united states army's airborne & special operations museum (asom). the…
The foundation is dedicated to the development and implementation of the strategic air command & aerospace museum, an organization exempt under code section 501(c)(3).
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds USO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EMERALD COAST SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AIR CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USO - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA INC DBA BOB HOPE USO ↗
- Who funds EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABILITATION AND TRAINING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ARSENAL DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds TRAINING AND SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds AIR FORCE ARMAMENT MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE WITH ME INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSMONT HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ARMED FORCES HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF ↗
- Who funds EMERALD COAST ROBOTICS ALLIANCE INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — 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
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 Defense Industrial Association 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Training and Simulation Technology Consortium Inc — 18% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc — 4% of income from government
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.