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National Federation of Independent Business Inc

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$572k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$560k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$508,444
Organizations funded a year
4 to 10
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$134M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations National Federation of Independent Business Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’23’24
Public BenefitArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$560k40%
FY20246$583k33%
FY20234$531k0%
FY20204$433k0%
FY20195$135k0%
FY201810$320k60%
FY20177$272kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$2.3MPublic Benefit$352kCommunity Improvement$122kInternational$35kEmployment$35kCrime & Legal$20k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nfib the Voice of Free Enterprise Inc$2,270,191965%
Republican State Leadership$122,0009n/a
Nfib Young Entrepreneur Foundation$76,818148%
Ohioans for a Healthy Economy Inc$75,0002n/a
Republican Governors Association$67,1178n/a
Junior Achievement of Middle Tn$35,05070%
American Legislative Exchange Council$30,0001n/a
Coalition of Minnesota Businesses$30,00024%
Ohio Works$25,00010%
Business and Industry Coalition Inc$20,00011%
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All grantees of National Federation of Independent Business Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nfib the Voice of Free Enterprise Inc$2,270,191965%
Republican State Leadership$122,0009n/a
Nfib Young Entrepreneur Foundation$76,818148%
Ohioans for a Healthy Economy Inc$75,0002n/a
Republican Governors Association$67,1178n/a
Junior Achievement of Middle Tn$35,05070%
American Legislative Exchange Council$30,0001n/a
Coalition of Minnesota Businesses$30,00024%
Ohio Works$25,00010%
Business and Industry Coalition Inc$20,00011%
Jeffersonian Project$15,0001n/a
Small Business for a Better Michigan$15,00018%
A Tax Is a Tax Committee$13,00010%
The Orrin G Hatch Foundation$10,00010%
Californians Against Job Losses and Higher Prices$10,00011%
Georgians First Leadership$10,0001n/a
Vote No Protect Ohio$10,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

National Federation of Independent Business Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNfib the Voice of Free Enterprise Inc: $2,270,191 over 9y, 65% of budgetNfib Young Entrepreneur Foundation: $76,818 over 1y, 48% of budgetJunior Achievement of Middle Tn: $35,050 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCoalition of Minnesota Businesses: $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetOhio Works: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBusiness and Industry Coalition Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSmall Business for a Better Michigan: $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetA Tax Is a Tax Committee: $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Orrin G Hatch Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornians Against Job Losses and Higher Prices: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · The Concord Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About National Federation of Independent Business Inc

How much does National Federation of Independent Business Inc give?
National Federation of Independent Business Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $560,111, out of $572,487 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does National Federation of Independent Business Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (80%), Public Benefit (12%), Community Improvement (4%).
Who are National Federation of Independent Business Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nfib the Voice of Free Enterprise Inc ($2.3M), Republican State Leadership ($122k), Nfib Young Entrepreneur Foundation ($77k).
Does National Federation of Independent Business Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Federation of Independent Business Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, The Concord Fund.
Where is National Federation of Independent Business Inc based?
National Federation of Independent Business Inc is based in TN.

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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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