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National Trappers Foundation

NATIONAL TRAPPERS FOUNDATION (ntf) was established to improve knowledge as well as to inform and educate the public about the furbearer species. The mission is to stimulate public interest and appreciation of furbearers and natural resources. Ntf also wants to raise awareness of the need and importance of restoring, using wisely, and…

$35k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2025
$16k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$9,840
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,840
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$262k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations National Trappers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$16k100%
FY20211$9k100%
FY20172$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$22kYouth Development$9kEducation$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Iowa Trappers Association Inc$9,840110%
Maine Trappers Association$6,0001n/a
Washington State University$6,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to National Trappers 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.

About National Trappers Foundation

How much does National Trappers Foundation give?
National Trappers Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $15,840, out of $35,340 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does National Trappers Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (60%), Youth Development (23%), Education (17%).
Who are National Trappers Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Iowa Trappers Association Inc ($10k), Maine Trappers Association ($6k), Washington State University ($6k).
Does National Trappers Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is National Trappers Foundation based?
National Trappers Foundation is based in IN.

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 5 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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