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National Marine Manufacturers Association at a glance

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National Marine Manufacturers Association

To ensure the growth and success of the recreational boating industry.

$924k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$402k
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 2024.

Environment$25MCommunity Improvement$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.1MCivil Rights$100kPublic Benefit$10kYouth Development$10kHealth$10k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $861,620, the rows itemized in this filing. The $923,525 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,905 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 · FY2024

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $460k
  • $250k+1 grant · $402k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARINE RETAILERS ASSOC OF AMERICA$401,620
CENTER FOR SPORTFISHING POLICY$150,000
SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC$100,000
OUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE$100,000
AMERICAN BOAT & YACHT COUNCIL$60,000
OUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE ASSOCIATION$50,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%MARINE RETAILERS ASSOC OF AMERICA: $473k → 11%CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%THIRD WAVE VOLUNTEERS INC: $10k → 15%SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 13%COUNCIL TO ADVANCE HUNTING AND THE SHOOTING SPORTS: $5k → 14%RECREATIONAL FISHING ALLIANCE INC: $54k → 7%RECREATION VEHICLE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $35k → 6%RECREATIONAL BOATING & FISHING FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%AMERICAN BOAT & YACHT COUNCIL: $60k → 6%MARINE RETAILERS ASSOC OF AMERICA: $469k → 11%OUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE: $150k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC: $10k → 15%GROW BOATING INC: $7.3M → 14%RECREATIONAL FISHING ALLIANCE INC: $48k → 7%RECREATION VEHICLE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $19k → 6%AMERICAN SPORT FISHING ASSOCIATION: $20k → 9%AMERICAN BOAT & YACHT COUNCIL: $50k → 6%MARINE RETAILERS ASSOC OF AMERICA: $402k → 11%OUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE: $150k → 14%GROW BOATING INC: $7.1M → 14%RECREATIONAL FISHING ALLIANCE INC: $48k → 7%AMERICAN SPORT FISHING ASSOCIATION: $20k → 9%OUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE: $100k → 14%GROW BOATING INC: $6.8M → 14%RECREATIONAL FISHING ALLIANCE INC: $39k → 7%AMERICAN SPORTFISHING ASSOCIATION: $20k → 9%OUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE: $100k → 14%GROW BOATING INC: $2.6M → 14%RECREATIONAL FISHING ALLIANCE INC: $35k → 7%AMERICAN SPORT FISHING ASSOCIATION: $20k → 9%OUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE: $85k → 14%STATES ORGANIZATION FOR BOATING ACCESS: $14k → 14%RECREATIONAL BOATING & FISHING FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%OUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE: $75k → 14%STATES ORGANIZATION FOR BOATING ACCESS: $14k → 14%OUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE ASSOCIATION: $75k → 14%STATES ORGANIZATION FOR BOATING ACCESS: $14k → 14%OUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%OUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE: $35k → 14%AMERICAN RECREATION COALITION: $5k → 14%WESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 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
IL
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DC
LA
GA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 13 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$27M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+35%

Still filing today

77%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitCivil RightsAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • MR
    MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +42%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RECREATION COALITION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +75%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR SPORTFISHING POLICY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $550k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • TR
    THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +47%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +30%
  • TW
    THIRD WAVE VOLUNTEERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +61%
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
Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association

The northwest sportfishing industry association was founded in 1993 by a collection of sport fishing industry business leaders who understood the need for a strong voice in the local, state, regional and federal governments. nsia is an…

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2
South Carolina Boating and Fishing Alliance

The mission of the south carolina boating and fishing alliance (scbfa) is to be a positive influence for the protection and growth of south carolina's boating and fishing industry through advocacy, education, and stewardship.

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3
Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources

The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…

Environment
4
California Sportfishing Protection Allia
Environment
5
Midwater Trawlers Cooperative

To promote the needs of the commercial fishing industry

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6
Coos Bay Trawlers' Association Inc

To present association's concensus to agencies

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7
Midwest Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies

To protect right of jurisdiction of the midwestern states over their wildlife resources on public and private lands

Environment
8
Responsible Offshore Development Alliance

We are a broad membership-based coalition of fishing industry associations and fishing companies with an interest in improving the compatibility of new offshore development with their businesses.

Community Improvement
9
Us Superyacht Association Inc

Organization formed to promote and support the u.s. superyacht industry and its members worldwide through advocacy, marketing and education.

Community Improvement
10
Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association of North America

The recreation vehicle dealers association assists dealer members in being professional, successful and profitable in order to achieve total customer loyalty through education, industry leadership, member services, proactively influencing…

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11
Rhode Island Marine Trade Association

Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.

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12
Pa Federation of Sportsmens & Conservationists Inc

The mission of the pfsc is to protect and promote hunting, fishing, trapping and realted sportsmen's rights and privileges, to secure and defend our 2nd amendment rights as guaranteed by the constitution of the united states of america; to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Southeastern Legal 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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)
16/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GROW BOATING INC: $23,798,838 · OtherGROW BOATING INCMARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS: $1,343,873 · Other+9 more: $650,000 · OtherAMERICAN RECREATION COALITION: $700,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTER FOR SPORTFISHING POLICY: $550,000 · EnvironmentSTATES ORGANIZATION FOR BOATING ACCESS: $42,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $50,000 · AnimalsRECREATIONAL BOATING AND FISHING FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$25,792,711Recreation & Sports$700,000Environment$597,000Civil Rights$100,000Animals$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$35,000Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGROW BOATING INC: $23,798,838 over 4y, 94% of budgetMARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS: $1,343,873 over 3y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN RECREATION COALITION: $700,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetCENTER FOR SPORTFISHING POLICY: $550,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetRecreational Fishing Alliance Inc: $224,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetOUTDOOR RECREATION ROUNDTABLE ASSOCIATION: $125,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAMERICAN SPORTFISHING ASSOCIATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRECREATION VEHICLE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION: $53,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTATES ORGANIZATION FOR BOATING ACCESS: $42,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetRECREATIONAL BOATING AND FISHING FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHIRD WAVE VOLUNTEERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCouncil of Great Lakes Governors Inc: $5,000 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Marine Manufacturers Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Marine Manufacturers Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report 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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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