Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,308,912 to it, the largest being BASS PRO SHOPS & CABELAS OUTDOOR FUND ($2,200,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation does
Mission
In the organization and support of the federal and state sportsmen's caucuses, csf informs, advises and works to further policy and legislation for the benefit of hunting, angling, recreational shooting and trapping, and for the conservation of fish, wildlife anbd habitat, which is the foundation of these traditions. We protect the rights of sportsmen, and provide access and a voice at all levels of government across the country.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Events: organized as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, csf does not take any public funds, but raises funds annually to cover expenses. Traditional donor-centered support and event-related income are the annual sources of revenue. More specifically, csf's revenues come from mission partner support at varying levels, individual giving, sponsorship opportunities for specific events, event ticket sales, and event income from raffles and auctions. It also includes advertising opportunities on research products, product promotion campaigns, private grant funding and funding for specific issue-based campaigns.
$539,399 spent13% of program spendingNational assembly of sportmen's caucuses (nasc) provides a host of services including: providing detailed information on sportmen's issues, writing caucus press releases, organizing an annual meeting and coordinating the exchange of information and interaction between the individual state caucuses. Through its communication network and by fostering interaction between and among legislators, sportmen's groups, industry partners, state fish and wildlife agencies and the media, nasc provides the synergy to protect and advance hunting, recreational angling and shooting, trapping and professional fish and wildlife management in state capitols. Nasc acts as a framework of support among state caucuses which is critical to the successful advancement of pro-sportsmen policies across the nation.
$1,829,634 spent44% of program spendingPolicy: csf provides advice, support and information on behalf of the sportmen's community to the congressional sportmen's caucus (csc) - core like-minded legislators, representing nearly 300 members of congress and both political parties from nearly every state. Additionally, csf works directly with the administration and federal land management agencies both formally through representation on federal advisory committees and informally as the washington-based policy liaison to the sportmen's community.
$982,759 spent24% of program spendingMarketing & communications: the csf communications effort is focused on branding csf by disseminating timely, newsworthy and accurate information on legislation and policy issues at the federal and state levels. Utilizing a number of communication tools, our target audience is largely made up of our various caucuses members, mission partner members and contributors, conservation ngo groups and the outdoor media. Expenses 667,955 including grants of 0. Revenue 0 state resources: the foundation controls assets contributed to state resource funds. These funds are quasi-organizations that solicit contributions for programs for their respective states. The srf are not separate entities of the foundation. Volunteers from each state organize projects and solicit donors that fund their state's projects. Per foundation policy, 12% of contributions are used for general and administrative purposes, with the remainder restricted for the intended program. Expenses 120,373 including grants of 0. Revenue 168,664. Governer's caucus: a bipartisan causcus of governors to protect and advance the interests of america's sportsmen and women, and advance professional fish and wildlife management policy.…
$788,328 spent$168,664 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,140,120.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $5.6M to $6.3M (+13%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $610k → $910k.
16 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $969k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 35% · 2019 24% · 2020 36% · 2021 39% · 2022 48% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $659k arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION?
- CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,308,912 to it, the largest being BASS PRO SHOPS & CABELAS OUTDOOR FUND ($2,200,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $8,308,912 in grants to CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION?
- BASS PRO SHOPS & CABELAS OUTDOOR FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 74 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing