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RETAIL INDUSTRY LEADERS ASSOCIATION INC
The retail industry leaders association's mission is to promote consumer choice and economic freedom through public policy and industry operational excellence.
$33k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
2
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of RETAIL INDUSTRY LEADERS ASSOCIATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
corn
2019
theatre
2022
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2023
educationtheatre
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SCHOOLSEED FOUNDATION$10,000
- THE LOSS PREVENTION FOUNDATION$7,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 4 repeat orgs$948k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +110% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
5
Total granted
$4.0M
$938k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+110%
+56%
Still filing today
100%
80%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Civil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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 RETAIL FEDERATION5× · 2017–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +26%
- FTFORDS THEATRE SOCIETY3× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +110%
- TLTHE LOSS PREVENTION FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- AAAMERICAN ACTION NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $800k · revenue +56%
- TNTHE NPD GROUP LPone grant, 2022 · $50k
- CRCORN REFINERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Jewelers of America Inc
To promote consumer confidence in the jewelry industry.
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2
National Association of Corporate
The organization promotes high professional standards and provides governance education to boards of directors and senior corporate management.
Philanthropy
3
America's Newspapers
To represent, promote and advance the interest of those in the newspaper industry
Employment
4
Minnesota Retailers Association
To ensure collective success across minnesota by continually advancing retail, encompassing retailers, partners, employees, consumers, and policymakers.
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5
Retail Association of Maine
The retail association of maine is the leading advocate for successful retail businesses.
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6
Indiana Food & Fuel Association
Represents independent businesses in indiana's petroleum, convenience, and food retail industries, including store owners, fuel marketers, and industry suppliers.
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7
Texas Retailers Association
To be a strong advocate for the retail industry and to provide value added services and programs pertinent to our members.
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8
American Gas Association
American gas association (the association) is an advocate for natural gas utility companies and their customers. the association helps natural gas utilities achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of…
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9
International Trademark Association Inc
To support trademarks and related intellectual property in order to protect consumers and to promote fair and effective commerce.
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10
Americans for Tax Reform
Taxpayer advocacy group promoting social welfare of taxpayers in the United States
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11
Illinois Manufacturers' Association
To strengthen the economic, social, environmental and governmental conditions for manufacturing and allied enterprises in the state of illinois.
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12
National Association of College Stores
Nacs serves as the primary resource for those business professionals managing and working in campus-based retail operations, with particular emphasis on the stores that are owned by the institution, its faculty, or its students.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Retail Merchants Association and the most unlike its peers is The Loss Prevention Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,845,000Civil Rights$1,250,000Human Services$800,000Arts & Culture$45,000Community Improvement$27,500Education$13,000
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 RETAIL FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds JOB CREATORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FORDS THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CORN REFINERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF STATE RETAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOSS PREVENTION FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation RETAIL INDUSTRY LEADERS ASSOCIATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COUNCIL OF STATE RETAIL ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 202266267 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on COUNCIL OF STATE RETAIL ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Retail Industry Leaders Association Inc?
Find your warmest path to Retail Industry Leaders Association Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines