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National League of Cities Institute Inc

The league's mission is to equip locally elected officials with knowledge, tools, and techniques to enhance their ability to govern effectively in their cities.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$167k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$5.2MEnvironment$3.3MEducation$3.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.4MPhilanthropy$880kYouth Development$677kHousing & Shelter$446kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 57 grants below total $1,650,265, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,296,706 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $646,441 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–50k45 grants · $855k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $795k
$20,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KABOOM$166,531
CITY OF DALLAS$128,734
EAST BAY CHILDREN & NATURE$50,000
TOWN OF GROTON$50,000
SAINT LOUIS MENTAL HEALTH BOARD$50,000
CITY OF CEDAR RAPIDS$50,000
UNITED WAY OF TUCSON AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC$50,000
INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER$50,000
TEXAS CHILDREN IN NATURE$50,000
MISSISSIPPI DRIFTLESS REGIONAL FOUNDATION$50,000
ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC$50,000
TOGETHER WE CAN$50,000
YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO$40,000
EL PROGRESO MEMORIAL LIBRARY$40,000
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS$40,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $503k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRICOUNTY PLAY COLLABORATIVE: $40k → 11%JACKSONVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $15k → 14%CHILD START INC: $15k → 16%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $7k → 7%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $25k → 10%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 14%PROGRESO LATINO INC: $8k → 14%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $10k → 17%SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS: $30k → 23%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%IBERO AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE: $15k → 14%COUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATIONS: $15k → 20%STITCHCREW INC: $15k → 16%SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS INC DBA PROPELLER A FORCE FOR SOCIAL: $30k → 23%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $40k → 10%HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC: $15k → 14%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $10k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $15k → 16%BE STRONG INTERNATIONAL INC: $10k → 15%TOGETHER WE CAN: $50k → 13%IMPACT HUB HOUSTON: $15k → 16%HAITIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER SANT LA INC: $8k → 15%TOGETHER WE CAN: $40k → 13%THE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $15k → 22%KOREAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%CENTRO COMMUNITY HISPANIC ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $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

AK
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 76 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

76 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
256

Total granted

$14M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+13%

Still filing today

26%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $952k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
  • FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $404k · revenue +23%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
    3× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $700k · revenue +32%
  • NR
    NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $271k · revenue -23%
  • GS
    GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $234k · revenue +13%
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
Community Development Technologies Center

To build livable and economically viable communities in the low income areas of This is accomplished by Greater Los Angeles strengthening the skils and self-sufficiency of residents, businesses of residents, businesses and community…

Community Improvement
2
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
5
Miami-Dade Innovation Authority Inc

Miami-dade innovation authority bridges the gap between private innovators and the public sector to fast track innovation that improves quality of life for miamians.

Science & Tech
6
Greater Washington Partnership

We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.

Recreation & Sports
7
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven by three…

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8
Labor Community Strategy Center

The strategy center is a think tank/act tank for regional, national and international movement building, founded in 1988 and based in the 10 million-person world city of los angeles. our campaigns, projects, and publications are rooted in…

Health
9
Latino Chamber of Commerce of Dane County Inc

Our mission is to maximize economic development and job creation though advocacy and programs that generate success and value for our Latino and Non-Latino business community.

Community Improvement
10
The Louisville Urban League Inc

As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.

Human Services
11
Enterprise Community Investment Inc

All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…

Housing & Shelter
12
Latino Business Chamber of Greater La Foundation Inc

To facilitate economic structures and policy initiatives that empower Latino business development and foster economic growth across Los Angeles.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research; the most unlike its peers is Black American Political Association of California. 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

170 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. 170 of the 373 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
161/170
Grantees still filing
97/170
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF JACKSON SENIOR SERVICES DIVISION: $1,260,000 · OtherCITY OF JACKSON SENIOR SERVICES DIVISIONCITY OF ST LOUIS MENTAL HEALTH BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $1,000,000 · OtherCITY OF ST LOUIS MENTAL HEALTH BOARD OF TRUSTEESCity of Sacramento: $341,378 · Other+147 more: $7,159,599 · Other+147 moreCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $2,720,160 · EducationCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORKAMERICA ACHIEVES INC: $2,062,870 · EducationAMERICA ACHIEVES INCDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $1,026,744 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $233,628 · Education+6 more: $325,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $700,000 · Community ImprovementCIVSTART CORP: $255,000 · Community ImprovementGEORGIA CITY SOLUTIONS INC: $122,217 · Community ImprovementMISSISSIPPI DRIFTLESS REGIONAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community Improvement+11 more: $282,000 · Community ImprovementALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $50,000 · EnvironmentOUTDOOR INCLUSION COALITION: $40,000 · EnvironmentRIVER BEND NATURE CENTER INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF QUINTA MAZATLAN INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentYOUNG GIFTED & GREEN: $40,000 · EnvironmentAWBURY ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · EnvironmentTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $40,000 · EnvironmentREFLO INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentGREEN UMBRELLA: $35,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $20,000 · EnvironmentFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $404,200 · InternationalGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PENNY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECTIVE: $20,000 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTogether We can: $90,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS: $60,000 · Human ServicesTri-County Play Collaborative: $40,000 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY INC: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$9,760,977Education$6,368,402Community Improvement$1,409,217Environment$430,000International$404,200Philanthropy$350,000Human Services$280,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $2,720,160 over 3y, 43% of budgetAMERICA ACHIEVES INC: $2,062,870 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $1,026,744 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $700,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $404,200 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION: $270,708 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCIVSTART CORP: $255,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetLONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $250,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $233,628 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKABOOM INC: $166,531 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATALYST CT INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGEORGIA CITY SOLUTIONS INC: $122,217 over 1y, 13% of budgetSocial Progress Imperative Inc: $120,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTogether We can: $90,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $62,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS: $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTexas Children in Nature: $50,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCity of Gary Economic Development Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWILMINGTON ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRIVER BEND NATURE CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetUnited Way Capital Corporation: $40,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetYOUNG GIFTED & GREEN: $40,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetAWBURY ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PENNY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRaizes Collective: $40,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEL PROGRESO LIBRARY: $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTerra BIRDS: $35,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetREFLO INC: $35,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN INDIAN FAMILY COALITION: $35,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEPOWER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Fund Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetFund 17: $30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $25,000 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.

  • Who funds CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA ACHIEVES INC ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CIVSTART CORP ↗
  • Who funds LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
  • Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATALYST CT INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA CITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Social Progress Imperative Inc ↗
  • Who funds Together We can ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗

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.

Cities for Financial …National Recreation a…FitLotAARPUrban Sustainability …The Recycling Partner…Firehouse Subs Public…US Green Building Cou…National Arbor Day Fo…Living Cities Inc the…Best Friends Animal S…National Fish and Wil…
Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund IncNY84.4× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · National Recreation and Park Association · FitLot · AARP · Urban Sustainability Directors Network · The Recycling Partnership Inc · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · US Green Building Council Inc · National Arbor Day Foundation · Living Cities Inc the National Community Development Initiative · Best Friends Animal Society · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

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 League of Cities Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National League of Cities Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Catalyst Ct Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Valley Venture Mentoring Service Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Wilmington Alliance Inc: 19% of income from government
  • The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc: 6% of income from government
  • New Bedford Economic Development Council Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 373 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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