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· Public charity
National Federation Foundation
To serve and protect the integrity of high school sports and activities.
$723k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
3
Communities
$94k
Largest
01What you fund
0161% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Health$167kRecreation & Sports$164kEducation$63kOther$256k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
res
2022
mental physicalphysical health
2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$56,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MAYO CLINIC$93,529
- WASHINGTON INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION$56,500
- DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH$25,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 93% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$403k · 5 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
7
Total granted
$403k
$166k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+64%
+33%
Still filing today
60%
71%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Recreation & SportsHealthEducationOther
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
- MCMAYO CLINIC RESEARCH2× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +29%
- DCDatalys Center for Sports Injury Research4× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +64%
- MIMASSACHUSETTS INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION2× · 2018–2021 · $31k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hillone grant, 2023 · $58k
- HHHARTFORD HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +63%
- ISIndiana Sports Corpgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +504%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Iowa High School Athletic Association
Promote, develop, direct, protect & regulate amateur interscholastic athletics for ia schools.
Education
2
Michigan High School Athletic Assoc
To develop, monitor, promote and improve michigan's interscholastic athletic programs.
Education
3
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.
Recreation & Sports
4
Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Assoc
To organize, develop, direct and control interscholastic athletic programs.
Recreation & Sports
5
Georgia State University Athletic
To provide advice, guidance, and leadership to advance athletics at georgia state university.
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6
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
7
University of Hartford
The university provides a learning environment in which students may transform themselves intellectually, personally and socially.
Education
8
University of Louisville Athletic Association
The University of Louisville Athletic Association is organized to develop intercollegiate athletic teams composed of students of the University of Louisville and to schedule and manage intercollegiate athletic contests, all in the harmony…
Recreation & Sports
9
Washington College
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.
Education
10
Nebraska Sports Council
The nebraska sports council, which conducts the cornhusker state games, live healthy nebraska, and nsc racing events, is a nonprofit organization with a mission of providing quality competition for amateur athletes of all ages and to…
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11
Indiana University Research & Technology
The indiana university research and technology corporation (iurtc) serves indiana university, the state of indiana, and the nation through creation and application of the university developed technologies and services, and the expanded…
Education
12
Avera Health
Promotion of health
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mayo Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$256,236Health$167,440Recreation & Sports$163,500Education$63,047
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 MAYO CLINIC RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Indiana Sports Corp ↗
- Who funds NFHS ↗
- Who funds HAWAII HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation National Federation Foundation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +64% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 205464035 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to National Federation Foundation?
Find your warmest path to National Federation Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines