Indiana · Nonprofit
NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,087 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $581k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What National Muzzzle Loading Rifle Association does
Mission
To promote, support, nuture and preserve nmlra's and our nation's hertiage in the support of muzzle loading through recreational, educational, historical and cultural venues such as match competition, hunting, gun making, safety and historical reinactments
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Shoots and matches, range expenses, winter shoots, territorial matches and rendevous to promote the fair use of historic rifles thorough competition and other events
$940,064 spent69% of program spendingMuzzle blast magazine to stimulate interest and eduacate readers concerning the history of muzzle loading rifles.
Projects to educate the public concerning safe firearms use and programs concerning the historical activities of the association.
Other miscellenous
$424,054 spent31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,364,118.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.5M to $5.0M (+42%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 28% · 2023 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $14k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
100% 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 NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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
100% of NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $581k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE 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 MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,087 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $581,087 in grants to NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL MUZZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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