How much did NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT grant in FY2024?

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT reported 6 grants totaling $589,867 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT based?

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT is based in TN.

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT

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NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT

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$590k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$517k

Largest

01What you fund

0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Civil Rights$1.8MPublic Benefit$105kInternational$35kArts & Culture$10kOther$347k

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

2018

policyballotmakeunderstandingmiddleeconomicstudents

2019

middleeconomicmakestudentsjunior achievement

2020

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2023

middleeconomicmakestudentsjunior achievement

2024

futuremiddleeconomicmakestudentsjunior achievement

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$250k+1 grant · $517k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$100M

Total assets

Largest grants

NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC$516,712
OHIO WORKS$25,000
REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE$15,000
REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION$10,000
CALIFORNIANS AGAINST JOB LOSSES & HIGHER PRICES$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC$6,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 98% 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.1M · 6 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +466% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+466%

Still filing today

67%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Civil RightsPublic BenefitInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

NT
NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +82% · 65% of their budget
OF
OHIOANS FOR A HEALTHY ECONOMY INC
2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +466%
JA
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +5%

Funded once

NY
NFIB YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $77k · 48% of their budget
AL
American Legislative Exchange Councilgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +37%
SB
SMALL BUSINESS FOR A BETTER MICHIGAN
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -99%

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.

Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and

Advance public policy & job growth strategies to create an environment for businesses to prosper

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Arizona Chamber of Commerce and

A statewide advocacy organization that advances arizona business and the arizona economy. the arizona chamber of commerce and industry is commited to advancing arizona's competitive position in the global economy by advocating free market…

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Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan, the state's business roundtable, is dedicated to making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, education, widely shared prosperity and a healthy economy. the organization is composed exclusively of the executive…

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Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Community Improvement

Montana Chamber of Commerce

The montana chamber aids a business climate that is optimal for montana prosperity.

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Ohio Chamber of Commerce

As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.

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Competitive Enterprise Institute

Public policy research/education dedicated to principles of free enterprise & limited government.

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National Bureau of Economic

The national bureau of economic research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. it is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic…

Social Science

Pennsylvania Chamber of Business

The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…

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American Enterprise Institute for Public

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nfib the Voice of Free Enterprise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Small Business for a Better Michigan. 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

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/12

Grantees still filing

6/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Civil Rights$1,776,747Other$347,268Public Benefit$105,000International$35,050Arts & Culture$10,000

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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

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 organisation NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 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 +82% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 273615830 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 NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 65% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 of Independent?

Find your warmest path to National Federation of Independent 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.

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to National Federation of Independent?

More from the funding graph

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to National Federation of Independent?

More from the funding graph