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National Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation

To support the mission of the national strength and conditioning association by providing funding for educational and research activities that enhance the practical application of strength and conditioning.

$255k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Science & Tech$896kEducation$174kInternational$99kCrime & Legal$24kHealth$15k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $127,312, the rows itemized in this filing. The $254,626 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $127,314 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.
$24,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$35,644
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY$24,080
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY$24,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$14,976
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY$14,932
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$13,680
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN: $23k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF HEALTH & REHABILITATION SCIENCES: $15k → 11%CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORP: $20k → 10%The University of Southern California: $15k → 14%University of North Texas: $15k → 8%texas christian university: $7k → 11%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 19%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $22k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $24k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $23k → 13%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 19%THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $15k → 15%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $51k → 15%LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY: $17k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $14k → 11%EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $36k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHAPEL HILL: $28k → 13%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 12%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO: $25k → 18%george mason university: $36k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $8k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $15k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $10k → 13%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $24k → 15%Lindenwood University: $7k → 5%EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $14k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $12k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHAPEL HILL: $28k → 13%KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 12%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $19k → 15%LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY: $7k → 5%UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA- CHARLOTTE: $8k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHAPEL HILL: $20k → 13%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $9k → 6%university of kansas center for research: $7k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $15k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $13k → 13%University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: $8k → 13%University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: $7k → 13%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

ID
WI
NV
IA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$809k · 14 repeat orgs$384k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
24

Total granted

$809k
$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+17%

Still filing today

14%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
EducationScience & TechOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $118k
  • UO
    University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
    4× · 2017–2023 · $102k · revenue +44%
  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2025 · $91k

Funded once

  • ET
    EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +958%
  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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11
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
12
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Kentucky Research Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Alaska Arts Southeast 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

14 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. 14 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $118,228 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLKENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $90,725 · OtherKENT STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO: $70,735 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASOOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $68,833 · OtherOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $57,051 · OtherGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITYTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $55,330 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $47,186 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $44,998 · OtherUSC School of Medicine Greenville: $38,976 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $35,147 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $32,135 · Other+17 more: $250,393 · Other+17 moreEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $34,893 · EducationEAST TENNESSEE STA…LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $32,391 · EducationLINDENWOOD EDUCATI…FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $22,276 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITYCreighton University: $19,900 · EducationCreighton Universi…CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION: $19,701 · EducationCSU FULLERTON AUXI…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITT…University of Kentucky Research Foundation: $14,901 · EducationUniversity of Kent…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $14,699 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUT…FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $7,416 · Education+1 more: $5,664 · EducationUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $101,660 · Science & TechUniversit…
Other$909,737Education$196,841Science & Tech$101,660

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $101,660 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $34,893 over 1y, 18% of budgetLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $32,391 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $22,276 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $19,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION: $19,701 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $14,901 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $14,699 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $7,416 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $5,664 over 1y, 0.0% 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 University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗

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.

American Chemical Soc…Folds of Honor Founda…American Heart Associ…National Collegiate A…Tulsa Community Found…American Foundation f…Association of Univer…Columbus FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Chemical SocietyDC17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Foundation for Suicide Prevention · Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc · Columbus Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to National Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 40 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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