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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$151k
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$6.1MYouth Development$240kCommunity Improvement$31kCivil Rights$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kHuman Services$20kPublic Benefit$20kArts & Culture$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $721,304, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,561,115 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $839,811 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

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $493k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $206k
$20,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 AFRICAN AMERICAN GUN ASSOC$25,000
NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL$25,000
NORTH AMERICAN GAMEBIRD ASSOCIATION INC$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
GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION$20,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $23k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 11%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

VT
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 50 repeat orgs$916k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
52

Total granted

$5.6M
$728k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+47%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k 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
Recreation & SportsAnimalsEnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • CS
    CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $776k · revenue +20%
  • TU
    THE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $335k · revenue +41%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $240k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • NF
    NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +47%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • NB
    NATION'S BEST SPORTS
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
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
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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2
Arizona Wildlife Federation

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,…

Animals
3
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

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.

Environment
4
National Wild Turkey Federation Inc

The national wild turkey federation, inc (nwtf) is dedicated to the conservation of the wild turkey and the preservation of our hunting heritage

Environment
5
The Wildlife Society

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.

Animals
6
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
7
Minnesota Deer Hunters Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
8
New Mexico Council of Outfitters and Guides

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…

Community Improvement
9
Masters of Foxhounds Association of America

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…

Recreation & Sports
10
Louisiana Wildlife Federation

Be the voice for louisiana's wildlife and natural resources

Animals
11
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
12
National Archery Association of the Us

The association is the national governing body for the sport of archery in the united states.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United States Sportsmen's Alliance Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 112 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/67
Grantees still filing
46/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $775,750 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATIONSOUTHWICK ASSOCIATES INC: $478,700 · OtherSOUTHWICK ASSOCIATES INCNATIONAL DEER ALLIANCE INC: $475,000 · OtherNATIONAL DEER ALLIANCE INCSHINE UNITED LLC: $375,289 · OtherSHINE UNITED LLCTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE INC: $335,243 · OtherTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE INCRESPONSIVE MANAGEMENT: $226,003 · OtherUSA Shooting Inc: $200,000 · Other+77 more: $2,163,798 · Other+77 moreBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $239,803 · Youth DevelopmentNational 4-H Council: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP COMPASS INC: $53,640 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL DEER ASSOCIATION: $200,000 · AnimalsGEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $91,600 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $37,500 · Animals+3 more: $21,000 · AnimalsJohnny Morris Foundation: $240,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyCouncil to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFAIRFIELD COUNTY FISH & GAME INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsHUNTERS OF COLOR: $26,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA CLAY TARGET LEAGUE: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST HUNT FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · Recreation & SportsHoodneck Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsWESTERN ASSOCIATION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE AGENCIES: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsDucks Unlimited Inc: $60,000 · EnvironmentUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $25,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVE AND PROTECT ARIZONA: $20,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION INC: $13,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $7,400 · EnvironmentWAFWA SPECIES RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EnvironmentRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASS INC: $78,505 · HealthSHOOT FOR A CURE: $33,334 · HealthKIDS & CLAYS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Health
Other$5,029,783Youth Development$483,443Animals$350,100Philanthropy$247,000Recreation & Sports$157,500Environment$130,900Health$126,839

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 budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $775,750 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL DEER ALLIANCE INC: $475,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE INC: $335,243 over 6y, 15% of budgetJohnny Morris Foundation: $240,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $239,803 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSA Shooting Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL DEER ASSOCIATION: $200,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetHAVAINC: $120,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN GAMEBIRD ASSOCIATION INC: $120,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetNational 4-H Council: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational African American Gun Associatio: $100,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetGEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $91,600 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetPROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASS INC: $78,505 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC: $77,800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP COMPASS INC: $53,640 over 2y, 75% of budgetAMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCouncil to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports: $50,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $37,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHOOT FOR A CURE: $33,334 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPORTING GOODS WHOLESALERS: $31,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS: $30,498 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY FISH & GAME INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetASSOCIATION OF FISH & WILDLIFE AGENCIES: $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPROFESSIONAL OUTDOOR MEDIA ASSOCIATION INC: $24,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetUSA CLAY TARGET LEAGUE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGUN OWNERS ACTION LEAGUE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HUNTER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION-USA: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCONSERVE AND PROTECT ARIZONA: $20,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetOUTDOOR WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $18,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN SPORTFISHING ASSOCIATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST HUNT FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCENTER FOR EXHIBITION INDUSTRY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS INC (IAEE): $14,999 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PAWNBROKERS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJefferson Island Club Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetDOANE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoodneck Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 25% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Midway USA Foundation…American Petroleum In…Rocky Mountain Elk Fo…Bass Pro Shops & Cabe…National Wildlife Fed…Pharmaceutical Resear…NRA Foundation IncWhitetails Unlimited …National Fish and Wil…The Nature ConservancyTulsa Community Found…Enterprise Holdings F…
Midway USA Foundation IncMO16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Shooting Sports Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 112 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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