Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC
NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL MARINE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $93M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $20M
What National Retail Federation Inc does
Mission
Nrf's mission is to advance and protect the interests of the retail industry and to help retailers achieve excellence in all areas of their business.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Nrf advances and protects the interests of the retail industry through its legislative and regulatory advocacy. These efforts focus on the issues that directly affect the retail business including credit and payments policy, labor benefits and employment practices, trade and tax policy, among others.
Nrf helps retailers achieve excellence in all areas of their business through its annual convention, conferences and workshops. These events bring retailers together with industry thought leaders and suppliers to explore research on the future of retail; examine benchmarking and best practices of industry peers; and learn about cutting edge products from the industry's leading solution providers. Designed to meet the needs of a variety of retail disciplines including strategy and retail operations, technology, e-commerce, loss prevention and marketing the events attract more than 40,000 industry professionals annually.
Nrf helps its members achieve excellence in their business through information dissemination on topics that range from data security, e-commerce, sales trends, to facilitation of peer to peer interaction that create workable solutions to business challenges such as leveraging technology in an uncertain economy and managing generational differences. The work is conducted by over 40 industry councils and task forces.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2024 to 2025, from $56M to $76M (+35%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 10 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.
Chief executive
Matthew R Shay
President and CEO
Board chair
Robert Eddy
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $5k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.0M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Retail Industry Leaders Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC’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 RETAIL FEDERATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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 RETAIL FEDERATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 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
67% of NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. 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.
Government funding NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $75
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Nrf Foundation · exempt
- Nrf Political Action Committee · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC: 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 RETAIL FEDERATION INC?
- NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL MARINE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $45,000 in grants to NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC?
- NATIONAL MARINE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION INC 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 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