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National Federation of State High School Associations

The nfhs works to protect, serve and enhance interscholastic programs supporting high school athletics and fine arts, serving approximately 12 million participants.

$264k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
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.

Recreation & Sports$1.7MEducation$287kInternational$139kHealth$50kArts & Culture$23k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $238,601, the rows itemized in this filing. The $264,101 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,500 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

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $114k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$40,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research$75,000
Council on Stds for Int'l Education Travel$50,000
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill$40,000
Butler University$36,101
National Association of Sports Officials$25,000
National Speech & Debate Association$12,500
02The need
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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 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%National Speech & Debate Association: $13k → 5%National Association of Sports Officials: $25k → 10%HAZINGPREVENTIONORG: $11k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $75k → 10%DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH: $75k → 16%NATIONAL ASSOC FOR MUSIC EDUCATION: $10k → 6%Council on Stds for Int'l Education Travel: $50k → 9%National Association of Sports Officials: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-DENVER: $75k → 10%DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH: $75k → 16%COUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INT'L EDUC TRAVEL: $32k → 9%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS OFFICIALS: $6k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $75k → 10%Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research: $75k → 16%COUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INT'L EDUC TRAVEL: $32k → 9%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS OFFICIALS: $6k → 10%DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH: $75k → 16%Council on Standards for International Education Travel: $25k → 9%NATIONAL ASSOC OF SPORTS OFFICIALS: $6k → 10%Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research: $75k → 16%COUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INT'L EDUC TRAVEL: $25k → 9%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS OFFICIALS: $6k → 10%DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH: $75k → 16%COUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INT'L EDUC TRAVEL: $25k → 9%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS OFFICIALS: $6k → 10%NATIONAL FEDERATION FOUNDATION: $250k → 16%COUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION TRAVEL: $25k → 9%NATIONAL FEDERATION FOUNDATION: $167k → 16%COUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INT'L EDUC TRAVEL: $25k → 9%NATIONAL FEDERATION FOUNDATION: $161k → 16%COUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INT'L EDUC TRAVEL: $25k → 9%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $36k → 16%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $36k → 16%Butler University: $36k → 16%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $36k → 16%Butler University: $36k → 16%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $36k → 16%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 8 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$2.1M
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+20%

Still filing today

63%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • DC
    DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +24%
  • BU
    Butler University
    7× · 2019–2025 · $226k · revenue +24%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $89k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • HP
    HAZING PREVENTION NETWORK
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +20%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -34%
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
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

The national association of intercollegiate athletics (naia)'s mission is to promote the education and development of students through intercollegiate athletics participation.

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2
National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association

The national intercollegiate soccer officials association ("nisoa") is an organization of more than 4,500 soccer officials which trains, certifies, and provides qualified soccer referees for the college soccer community throughout the…

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3
National Collegiate Athletic Association

Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.

Recreation & Sports
4
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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5
Natl Assn of Secondary School Principals

The mission of nassp is to connect and engage school leaders through advocacy, research, education, and student programs.

Education
6
Northeast Conference

The conference is committed to providing quality athletics competition integral to and consistent with its member institutions' academic missions. the conference is dedicated to providing opportunities for student-athletes to achieve their…

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7
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
8
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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9
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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10
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
11
Florida High School Athletic Association Inc

Operation, promotion, direction, supervision, and regulation of interscholastic athletics of member high schools in florida.

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12
National Association of College Stores

Nacs works to successfully integrate the collegiate retail industry into the higher education ecosystem through advocacy, strategic partnerships, innovative direction, education, and resources that support student academic success and the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forensic League D/B/a National Speech and Debate Assoc; the most unlike its peers is Hazing Prevention Network. 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. 8 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
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

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $330,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $225,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $150,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonCOUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL: $89,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATI…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS OFFICIALS INC: $85,500 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS OFFICIALS INCNational Federation Foundation: $578,182 · PhilanthropyNational Federation FoundationDATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INC: $449,993 · Recreation & SportsDATALYS CENTER FOR SPOR…Butler University: $225,631 · EducationButler Unive…HAZING PREVENTION NETWORK: $11,000 · EducationNATIONAL FORENSIC LEAGUE D/B/A NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE ASSOC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$879,500Philanthropy$578,182Recreation & Sports$449,993Education$236,631Arts & Culture$22,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Federation Foundation: $578,182 over 3y, 39% of budgetDATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INC: $449,993 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetButler University: $225,631 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON STANDARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL: $89,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS OFFICIALS INC: $85,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL FORENSIC LEAGUE D/B/A NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE ASSOC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAZING PREVENTION NETWORK: $11,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Federation of State High School Associations funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Federation of State High School Associations. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    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 11 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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