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NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION

NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONVENIENCE STORES ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$8.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$20M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What National Grocers Association does

Mission

Champion the independent grocery industry through advocacy, collaboration, education, services, and connections.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education: conduct an annual convention, sponsor educational programs including an executive leadership program, webinars and publish a newsletter.

  2. Government relations and industry relations: conduct an annual convention, conduct a leadership meeting that includes all sectors of the independent grocery channel and publish a newsletter.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.4M) Expenses 100 ($7.1M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 108 ($8.0M) Expenses 100 ($7.2M) Net assets 155 ($17M)2019 Revenue 78 ($5.8M) Expenses 84 ($6.0M) Net assets 171 ($18M)2020 Revenue 89 ($6.6M) Expenses 71 ($5.1M) Net assets 194 ($21M)2021 Revenue 83 ($6.1M) Expenses 83 ($6.0M) Net assets 206 ($22M)2022 Revenue 75 ($5.5M) Expenses 88 ($6.3M) Net assets 163 ($17M)2023 Revenue 88 ($6.5M) Expenses 98 ($7.0M) Net assets 179 ($19M)2024 Revenue 119 ($8.8M) Expenses 106 ($7.6M) Net assets 189 ($20M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (106)Net assets (189)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $14M to $18M (+28%).

$14M
$18M
$20M
$22M
$25M
$24M
$25M
$25M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$254k
’17
$864k
’18
−$226k
’19
$1.5M
’20
$182k
’21
−$748k
’22
−$522k
’23
$1.3M
’24
0.8
months of
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.

Chief executive

Gregory Ferrara

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed6260646269676261
Joined·+14+14+12+14+10+16+3
No longer listed·161014712214
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.

Where its funders are

NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.

VA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

54
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Nga Research and Education Foundation · exempt
  • Nga PAC · exempt
  • Nga Service Corporation · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION?
NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONVENIENCE STORES ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION?
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONVENIENCE STORES is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL GROCERS ASSOCIATION 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.

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 1 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