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National Equipment Finance Association

To provide a forum for members to pursue personal and professional growth, ethics, advocacy, networking, education and involvement.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2018 to 2024.

Employment$49kHousing & Shelter$20kHuman Services$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kHealth$12kEducation$10kMembership Benefit$6k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $35,458, the rows itemized in this filing. The $40,498 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,040 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 $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$10,148
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAURA'S HOUSE$15,410
PATRIOT SHOOTOUT - INDIANA INC$10,148
CLFP FOUNDATION$9,900
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LAURA'S HOUSE: $15k → 10%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.
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 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
Network for Exceptional Military Families
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2
Laura Norton Fund
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3
Home for Veterans Network Launch
Public Benefit
4
N-Star Events Inc

Manage golf fundraising events to raise funds for the Navy Seal Legacy Foundation

Public Benefit
5
Peaceful Warrior Foundation

The peaceful warrior foundation is a non-profit organization with the aim of connecting our nation's warriors with the support and care they need.at peaceful warrior we strive to help our active-duty operators & veterans be at their very…

Human Services
6
Xlh Network Inc

The mission of the network is to promote xlh awareness and education for affected families medical professionals and the community at large.

Health
7
Debriefing the Front Lines Inc

Debriefing the Front Lines provides continuing education, structured debriefing and emotional wellness for both individual nurses and healthcare systems.

Human Services
8
Life Debt Inc

serving veterans and first responders

Community Improvement
9
The Brendan Looney Foundation Inc

The mission of the brendan looney foundation is to help individuals and families--both u.s. military and non-military--who share the values of service, honor, integrity, and perseverance exemplified by lt brendan looney. as brendan so…

Human Services
10
Tennessee Public Safety Network

The Tennessee Public Safety Network was established to address the growing stress and trauma experienced by law enforcement and public safety personnel. We believe untreated stress profoundly impacts their physical and emotional well-being.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
12
National First Responders Organization Foundation Inc

Provide assistance and support to the nation's first responders and/or their families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Equipment Finance Association; the most unlike its peers is Operation Open Water. 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

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CERTIFIED LEASE & FINANCE PROFESSIONAL FOUNDATION: $49,400 · OtherCERTIFIED LEASE & FINANCE PROFESSIONAL FOUNDATIONNATIONAL LYMPHEDEMA NETWORK INC: $6,044 · OtherNATIONAL LYMPHEDEMA NETWORK INCNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE SAFE HAV…LAURA'S HOUSE: $15,410 · Human ServicesLAURA'S HOUSEOPERATION OPEN WATER: $12,672 · Public Safety & DisasterOPERATION O…Patriot Shootout - Indiana Inc Folds of Honor Indiana Chapter: $10,148 · EducationPatriot S…INDY FOUNDATION: $6,044 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL EQUIPMENT FINANCE ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$55,444Housing & Shelter$20,000Human Services$15,410Public Safety & Disaster$12,672Education$10,148Philanthropy$6,044Membership Benefit$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCERTIFIED LEASE & FINANCE PROFESSIONAL FOUNDATION: $49,400 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE: $15,410 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION OPEN WATER: $12,672 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPatriot Shootout - Indiana Inc Folds of Honor Indiana Chapter: $10,148 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetINDY FOUNDATION: $6,044 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL LYMPHEDEMA NETWORK INC: $6,044 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL EQUIPMENT FINANCE ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Equipment Finance Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Equipment Finance Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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 8 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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