· Public charity
NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund
The fund provides legal and financial assistance to selected individuals and organizations defending their right to keep and bear arms.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $890,256 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $965,436 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,180 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $354k
- $250k+1 grant · $505k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Rifle Association | $505,000 |
| Silent Majority Foundation | $120,155 |
| Delaware State Sportsmens Association | $114,159 |
| Liberty Justice Center | $60,000 |
| Association of NJ Rifle and Pistol Club Inc | $59,242 |
| Sporting Arms Company | $19,447 |
| Western PA Sportmens Club | $12,253 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 16% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- NRNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA7× · 2018–2024 · $2.9M · revenue -51%
- DSDELAWARE STATE SPORTSMAN ASSO2× · 2023–2024 · $163k
- AOASSOCIATION OF NJ RIFLE & PISTOL CLUBS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $71k · revenue -4%
Funded once
- HSHunter Sports Shooting Groundsone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TBThe Buckeye Instituteone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -1%
- GBGranby Bow & Gun Club Incone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +13%
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.
Operation of firearm ranges for local law enforcement agencies.
To advocate for the second amendment rights of all law abiding citizens of pennsylvania.
To provide and maintain a shooting range
The organization provides shotgun sports recreation and education at its gun range on kuna mora road.
The club is organized to promote the advancement of and competition in the shooting sports
The independence gun club purpose is to promote the development of all shooting sports. we are providing opportunities for members and their families to receive shooting instruction,an environment for shooting, fellowship and good…
The association was formed in 1892 and incorporated in 1898 to provide a venue for shooting sports and social discourse. the activities of the clue revolve around the development and support of amateur trap shooting. the club atmosphere…
Member's club
A private sportsmans club providing range facilities and programs, recreational and competitive, to its membership for different types of shooting, trapping, archery, education and training.
Provide sport services
Maintenance & operation of a n.r.a. sanctioned public shooting range serving approximately 350 members and 2225 non-members annually. sponsorship of hunter safety classes, n.r.a. and other matches and ccf qualification.
Recreational archery for members
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Rifle Association of America and the most unlike its peers is Western Pennsylvania Sportsmens Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SILENT MAJORITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF NJ RIFLE & PISTOL CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SPORTSMENS CLUB ↗
- Who funds The Buckeye Institute ↗
- Who funds Granby Bow & Gun Club Inc ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY PARKS GUN CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Granby Bow & Gun Club Inc — 1% 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.
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