· Public charity
NRA Foundation Inc
Support firearm-related public interest activities to defend and foster the second amendment right of law-abiding americans.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 307 grants below total $10,058,262 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $17,507,041 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,448,779 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
- Under $10k252 grants · $714k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $818k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $789k
- $250k+3 grants · $7.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Rifle Association of America | $7,219,321 |
| Independence Institute | $268,000 |
| USA Shooting Inc | $250,000 |
| The American Society for the Promotion of International Amateur Competition | $189,174 |
| The X Count Inc | $146,120 |
| National Boy Scouts of America Foundation | $120,060 |
| Outdoor Stewards of Conservation Foundation | $115,775 |
| National Boy Scouts of America Foundation | $95,450 |
| USA High School Clay Target League | $64,042 |
| United States National Rifle Team Inc | $58,058 |
| Indiana Youth Shooting Sports Foundation Inc | $42,000 |
| Indiana State Rifle and Pistol Association | $40,175 |
| Stikine Sportsmen Association | $34,665 |
| IFSA Inc | $30,700 |
| Howard County Chapter IWLA | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those 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.
768 repeat relationships — 223 still active in FY2024, 545 since wound down; 80 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $524k 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
- SCSPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES3× · 2017–2019 · $1.3M · revenue +24%
- GMGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $687k · revenue +37%
- USUSA Shooting Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $645k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- FHFIRST HUNT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $170k · revenue -29% · 38% of their budget
- UOUniversity of AlaskaBorealis Bullseyes 4-H Shooting Clubone grant, 2017 · $60k
- WIWINNSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $57k
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.
Provide instruction - safe firearm usage
Public Education of Conservation
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.
We are a recreational trap, skeet, and pistol shooting and training facility.
Dedicated to conservation preservation of wildlife and wildlife habitat
Training in outdoor activites
To provide activities which focus on hunting and fishing safety issues for all ages. preserve and protect wildlife.
Shooting sport act. for youth & adults
The main purposes of the Corporation are to educate citizens of Warren Countyin the safe handling and use of firearms; to improve their skill in target shooting throughregular practice sessions and competitions; teach members leadership,…
Member's club
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada County Sportsmen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northern Colorado Clay Crushers. 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 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
755 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 755 of the 1,886 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds USA Shooting Inc ↗
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- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds USA CLAY TARGET LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds INDIANA YOUTH SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds MISSOURI 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds ALASKA SCTP NON PROFIT CORPORATION AKSCTP YES ↗
- Who funds X COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTL AMATEUR COMPETITION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES NATIONAL RIFLE TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST HUNT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds TWAW SHOOTING CHAPTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO SPORTSMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS ROD & GUN CLUB GAIL LAMBRECHT ↗
- Who funds LEWIS CLARK WILDLIFE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SAGE PISTOL LEAGUE ↗
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- Who funds OUTDOOR STEWARDS OF CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FERNAN ROD AND GUN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WEST HILLS SHOOTING & TRAINING FACILITY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA EXTENSION 4H FOUNDATION ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Midway USA Foundation Inc · Boy Scouts of America · National Boy Scouts of America Foundation · Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · Round It Up America Inc · Nchsaa Foundation Inc · National 4-H Council · North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · The George W Bush Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Oneblood Inc
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 NRA 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.
- Outdoor Stewards of Conservation Foundation Inc — 100% 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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