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· Public charity
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE REFEREES'
Bargaining representative of nfl game & replay officials
$93k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants
1
Communities
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE REFEREES'’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
environmentopen armsmentoringlivingchildrenacceleratingschedule
2022
children'sdiabetesraise
2023
backraisediabeteslivesprevent cure
2024
melanomaraisemedicaldiabeteslivesresearchprevent cure
2025
cancerraisediabeteslivesprevent cure
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SPORTS OFFICIALS CARE$1,000
02The need
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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:
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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 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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The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group
Susan g. komen's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
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American Academy of Neurology
The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is the leading voice in brain health. As the world's largest association of neurologists and neuroscience professionals with more than 40,000 members, the AAN offers access to continuing education,…
Community Improvement
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The Glaucoma Foundation Inc
The glaucoma foundation, inc. is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating glaucoma.
Health
4
American Osteopathic Foundation
To support programs and services that promote osteopathic medicine and enhance patient-centered care. the aof has worked diligently toward realizing its vision, to enrich global health by promoting osteopathic medicine. the aof is…
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Banner Alzheimer's Foundation
Banner alzheimer's foundation secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute.
Health
6
American Academy of Ophthalmology Inc
Aao is the largest national membership organization for ophthalmologists.
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Brightfocus Foundation
Brightfocus foundation (brightfocus) seeks a world free from diseases of mind and sight.
Health
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Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
The foundation raises funds to help the alliance for clinical trials in oncology answer important treatment questions through large-scale clinical trials.
Health
9
National Bleeding Disorders Foundation
The national bleeding disorders foundation (formerly the national hemophilia foundation) is dedicated to finding cures for inheritable blood and bleeding disorders and to addressing and preventing the complications of these disorders…
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.
Recreation & Sports
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Optical Society of America Inc
To promote the generation, application, and archiving of knowledge of optics and photonics and to disseminate the knowledge worldwide.
Health
12
Uso Foundation
Support of uso, inc.'s mission to strengthen the well-being of the people (continued in schedule o) serving in america's military and their families.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sports Officials Care and the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc. 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
17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$50,000Human Services$1,000
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNY10.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 FOOTBALL LEAGUE REFEREES' 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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
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.
04Through 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: SOUTHWEST FOOTBALL OFFICIALS ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 760208596 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 SOUTHWEST FOOTBALL OFFICIALS ASSOCIATION, 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
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% 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.
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Find your warmest path to National Football League Referees' 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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