· Public charity
National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc
National shooting sports foundation's (nssf) purpose is to promote the shooting sports and foster a better understanding of recreational shooting.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $721,304 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,561,115 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $839,811 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $493k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHINE UNITED LLC | $151,200 |
| PHEASANTS FOREVER INC | $55,000 |
| CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMENS FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| SOUTHWICK ASSOCIATES | $43,350 |
| WONDERS OF WILDLIFE | $40,000 |
| HUNTERS OF COLOR | $26,000 |
| NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| NORTH AMERICAN GAMEBIRD ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN GUN ASSOC | $25,000 |
| DRT HOLDINGS LLC | $24,000 |
| OUTDOOR INSIGHTS LLC | $24,000 |
| JOHNSON INC | $22,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $22,500 |
| GUN OWNERS ACTION LEAGUE | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL DEER ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
50 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CSCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $776k · revenue +20%
- TUTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE INC6× · 2017–2023 · $335k · revenue +41%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA3× · 2017–2019 · $240k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- NFNATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +47%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $40k
- NBNATION'S BEST SPORTSone grant, 2020 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Arizona Wildlife Federation's purpose is to promote and encourage the conservation, propagation, development and management of fish, game and other wildlife; to promote and encourage the wise use, conservation and restoration of waters,…
Backcountry hunters & anglers seeks to ensure north america's outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing in a natural setting, through education and work on behalf of wild public lands and waters.
The national wild turkey federation, inc (nwtf) is dedicated to the conservation of the wild turkey and the preservation of our hunting heritage
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
The primary purpose of the organization is to achieve the best possible deer herd, to promote high quality hunting and to protect our hunting heritage. to achieve these purposes, the following activities whall be promoted: 1. present our…
We are proud to represent the finest hunting and fishing professionals in the state of New Mexico Established in 1978 NMCOG strives to promote and enhance the outdoor recreation industry by supporting ethical hunting practices and wildlife…
The Masters of Foxhounds Association (MFHA) is the governing body of organized, mounted hunting of acceptable quarry within North America and Canada. It promotes and protects the sport, recognizes organized hunts which meet its published…
Be the voice for louisiana's wildlife and natural resources
To protect right of jurisdiction of the midwestern states over their wildlife resources on public and private lands
The association is the national governing body for the sport of archery in the united states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United States Sportsmen's Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johnny Morris Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DEER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Johnny Morris Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds USA Shooting Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DEER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN GAMEBIRD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAVAINC ↗
- Who funds National 4-H Council ↗
- Who funds National African American Gun Associatio ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASS INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PHEASANTS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds STOP WOKE BANKS ↗
- Who funds Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JOHNNY MORRIS' WONDERS OF WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SHOOT FOR A CURE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPORTING GOODS WHOLESALERS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Midway USA Foundation Inc · American Petroleum Institute · Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund · National Wildlife Federation · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · NRA Foundation Inc · Whitetails Unlimited Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Tulsa Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 organization National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc 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.
- Wildlife Management Institute Inc — 100% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Hunters of Color — 4% of income from government
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 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.