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NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE
NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,325 to it, the largest being CHARLES F KETTERING FOUNDATION ($225,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce Education & Public Improvement Fdtnlocal
- NetChoiceportfolio match
- The FY Chang Foundationportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $224k.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
92% of NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce Education & Public Improvement FdtnlocalOH · funds 93 organizations near you
- NetChoiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The FY Chang Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neal & Jane Freeman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pierre F & Enid Goodrich Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for War & Peace Reporting-Usportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of American Overseas Research Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The David Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mywirelessorgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chatterjee Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Global Human Rights Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Casillas Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE: 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 ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE?
- NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,325 to it, the largest being CHARLES F KETTERING FOUNDATION ($225,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $244,325 in grants to NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE?
- CHARLES F KETTERING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing