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National Federation of Independent Business Inc

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$572k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$508k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$2.3MPublic Benefit$352kCommunity Improvement$122kInternational$35kEmployment$35kCrime & Legal$20k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $560,111, the rows itemized in this filing. The $572,487 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,376 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $250k+1 grant · $508k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$134M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC$508,444
SC COALITION FOR LAWSUIT REFORM$20,000
REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE$15,000
GEORGIANS FIRST LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE$10,000
REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION$6,667
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COALITION OF MINNESOTA BUSINESSES: $20k → 11%CALIFORNIANS AGAINST JOB LOSSES & HIGHER PRICES: $10k → 12%SC COALITION FOR LAWSUIT REFORM: $20k → 16%Republican State Leadership Committee: $25k → 14%SMALL BUSINESS FOR A BETTER MICHIGAN: $15k → 16%A TAX IS A TAX COMMITTEE: $13k → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $7k → 14%ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%GEORGIANS FIRST LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE: $10k → 13%OHIOANS FOR A HEALTHY ECONOMY INC: $53k → 15%American Legislative Exchange Council: $30k → 7%COALITION OF MINNESOTA BUSINESSES INC: $10k → 11%REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE: $25k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $7k → 14%OHIOANS FOR A HEALTHY ECONOMY INC: $23k → 15%JEFFERSONIAN PROJECT: $15k → 7%Republican State Leadership Committee: $15k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $7k → 14%VOTE NO PROTECT OHIO: $10k → 15%REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE: $15k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $7k → 14%OHIO WORKS: $25k → 15%REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE: $15k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $7k → 14%REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE: $15k → 14%NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC: $517k → 14%Republican State Leadership Committee: $12k → 14%NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC: $508k → 14%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC: $499k → 14%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC: $378k → 14%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC: $188k → 14%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC: $141k → 14%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%NFIB YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR FOUNDATION: $77k → 14%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC: $40k → 14%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $7k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
OR
OH
CA
UT
VA
TN
SC
DC
GA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 6 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +466% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$2.6M
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+466%
0%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
Civil RightsPublic BenefitInternationalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NT
    NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +79% · 65% of their budget
  • OF
    OHIOANS FOR A HEALTHY ECONOMY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +466%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN
    7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +37%

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%
  • OW
    Ohio Works
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
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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2
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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3
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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4
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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5
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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6
State Business Executives

Multi-sector, multi-state voice of business advocating on 5 key policies pillars.

Community Improvement
7
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
8
Jobsohio

To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio.

Employment
9
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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10
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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11
Montana Chamber of Commerce

To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…

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12
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nfib the Voice of Free Enterprise Inc; the most unlike its peers is Californians Against Job Losses and Higher Prices. 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC: $2,270,191 · Civil RightsNFIB THE VOICE OF FREE ENTERPRISE INC+1 more: $15,000 · Civil RightsRepublican State Leadership: $122,000 · OtherRepublican Stat…NFIB YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR FOUNDATION: $76,818 · OtherNFIB YOUNG ENTR…Republican Governors Association: $67,117 · OtherRepublican Gove…COALITION OF MINNESOTA BUSINESSES: $30,000 · OtherCOALITION OF MI…Ohio Works: $25,000 · OtherOhio WorksSMALL BUSINESS FOR A BETTER MICHIGAN: $15,000 · OtherA TAX IS A TAX COMMITTEE: $13,000 · Other+3 more: $30,000 · Other+3 moreOHIOANS FOR A HEALTHY ECONOMY INC: $75,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $30,000 · Public BenefitJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN: $35,050 · InternationalBUSINESS AND INDUSTRY COALITION INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Civil Rights$2,285,191Other$378,935Public Benefit$105,000International$35,050Community Improvement$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 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
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.

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 Resear…The Concord Fund
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Federation of Independent Business Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Federation of Independent Business Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    0get 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, FY20–24
    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 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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