How much does NRA Foundation Inc give?

NRA Foundation Inc reported 307 itemized grants totaling $10,058,262, out of $17,507,041 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 251 and 648 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does NRA Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (70%), Recreation & Sports (16%), Youth Development (4%).

Who are NRA Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Rifle Association of America ($76M), Independence Institute ($1.8M), Speedway Children's Charities ($1.3M).

Does NRA Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as NRA Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Midway USA Foundation Inc, Boy Scouts of America, National Boy Scouts of America Foundation.

Where is NRA Foundation Inc based?

NRA Foundation Inc is based in VA.

NRA Foundation Inc

NRA Foundation Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

NRA Foundation Inc

Support firearm-related public interest activities to defend and foster the second amendment right of law-abiding americans.

$18M

Granted FY2024still arriving

307

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$7.2M

Largest

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 2024.

Civil Rights$76MRecreation & Sports$17MYouth Development$4.0MEducation$3.7MPublic Benefit$1.9MCrime & Legal$1.6MAnimals$1.2MPhilanthropy$877kOther$0

02FY2024 · 307 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 307 grants below total $10,058,262, the rows itemized in this filing. The $17,507,041 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,448,779 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 · FY2024

Under $10k252 grants · $714k
$10k–50k45 grants · $818k
$50k–250k7 grants · $789k
$250k+3 grants · $7.7M

$2,677

Median grant

States reached

$212M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$100M · 768 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

768

1033

Total granted

$100M

$6.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+21%

Still filing today

44%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $524k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

SC
SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES
3× · 2017–2019 · $1.3M · revenue +24%
GM
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $687k · revenue +37%
NW
NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION INC
3× · 2017–2023 · $364k · revenue +68%

Funded once

FH
FIRST HUNT FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $170k · revenue -29% · 38% of their budget
UO
University of AlaskaBorealis Bullseyes 4-H Shooting Club
one grant, 2017 · $60k
WI
WINNSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
one grant, 2018 · $57k

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.

Jackson County Sportmans Club

Provide instruction - safe firearm usage

—

Twin Valley Rod & Gun Club

Public Education of Conservation

—

Gateway Gun Club Youth Shooters Inc

Arts & Culture

Woburn Sportsmens Association Inc

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.

—

Winona Sportsmens Club Inc

We are a recreational trap, skeet, and pistol shooting and training facility.

—

Cormorant Lakes Sportsmen's Club

Dedicated to conservation preservation of wildlife and wildlife habitat

Environment

Ames Collegiate Shooting Sports

Recreation & Sports

North Leominster Rod & Gun Club

Training in outdoor activites

—

Osceola County Sportsmans Club

To provide activities which focus on hunting and fishing safety issues for all ages. preserve and protect wildlife.

—

Sparta Hunting and Fishing Club

The club offers its members outdoor pistol and rifle ranges, shotgun events on a weekly basis, and organized pistol/rifle events during summer months. trap shooting and 5-stand shooting is offered to members and the public each week.…

Recreation & Sports

Rock Valley Gun Club Foundation

Shooting sport act. for youth & adults

Recreation & Sports

Pocahontas County Shooting Sports

The association is organized as an athletic organization for the benefit of area youth by promoting education and training in shooting sports and by promoting and conducting inter-scholastic athletic competitions.

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada County Sportsmen Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

752 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. 752 of the 1,886 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

187

Early backer (in before they grew)

706/752

Grantees still filing

458/752

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Civil Rights$75,793,826Other$10,086,913Recreation & Sports$2,378,524Philanthropy$2,175,002Public Benefit$1,840,075Education$1,807,935Youth Development$1,403,784

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Midway USA Foundation IncMO87.5× affinity191 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

13report 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.

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