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Retail Industry Leaders Association Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Retail Industry Leaders Association Inc

Our mission is the convene decision-makers, advocate for the industry, and promote operational excellence and innovation.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Community Improvement$2.8MEmployment$1.3MHuman Services$800kHealth$50kArts & Culture$45kEnvironment$40kEducation$23k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $17,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $33,410 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,410 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOOLSEED FOUNDATION$10,000
THE LOSS PREVENTION FOUNDATION$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK: $800k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 4 repeat orgs$948k to everyone else

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

+3%
+92%

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NR
    NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +73%
  • JC
    JOB CREATORS NETWORK INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.3M · revenue -47%
  • FT
    FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY
    3× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • AA
    American Action Network Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $800k · revenue +92%
  • TN
    THE NPD GROUP LP
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • CR
    CORN REFINERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -5%
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.

1
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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2
Minnesota Retailers Association

To ensure collective success across minnesota by continually advancing retail, encompassing retailers, partners, employees, consumers, and policymakers.

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3
Retail Association of Maine F/K/a Maine Merchants Association

The association's primary exempt purpose is to improve business conditions for its members in the retail, wholesale, and service industries by representing its members and keeping them informed of laws and regulations affecting them.

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4
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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5
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
International Trademark Association Inc

We are a global association of brand owners and professionals dedicated to supporting trademarks and complementary intellectual property (IP) to foster consumer trust, economic growth, and innovation, and committed to building a better…

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8
National Restaurant Association

To serve our industry and impact its success, we: strengthen operations, mitigate risk and develop talent; advance and protect business vitality through national, state and local advocacy; and drive knowledge and collaboration.

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9
Illinois Business Alliance

The illinois business alliance is a nonprofit, member-driven business league that exists to improve illinois' business climate and promote the common economic interests of its members.

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10
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
12
National Association of Convenience Stores

The mission of nacs is to represent the convenience and petroleum retailing industry and to provide the knowledge, connections, and advocacy necessary to assist our members in maximizing their effectiveness and profitability.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Retail Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is SchoolSeed Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC: $2,725,000 · OtherNATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC+3 more: $110,000 · OtherJOB CREATORS NETWORK INC: $1,250,000 · Civil RightsJOB CREATORS NETWORK INCAmerican Action Network Inc: $800,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Action Ne…FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL OF STATE RETAIL ASSOCIATIONS INC: $27,500 · Community ImprovementThe Loss Prevention Foundation: $13,000 · EducationSchoolSeed Foundation: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,835,000Civil Rights$1,250,000Human Services$800,000Arts & Culture$45,000Community Improvement$27,500Education$13,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC: $2,725,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetJOB CREATORS NETWORK INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCORN REFINERS ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL OF STATE RETAIL ASSOCIATIONS INC: $27,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetILLINOIS RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Loss Prevention Foundation: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSchoolSeed Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Retail Industry Leaders Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Retail Industry Leaders Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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