Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,921,312 to it, the largest being THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE INC ($1,355,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What National Taxpayers Union does
Mission
Ntu is the "voice of america's taxpayers." ntu works for a simple and fair tax system that enables prosperity for all and respects taxpayers' civil rights, lean and efficient government services and regulations, sustainable fiscal policies to avoid national bankruptcy, and permanent limits on taxes, spending and debt. Ntu achieves this mission by utilizing the most effective pro-taxpayer team on capitol hill and in the states. Our lobbying skills, media savvy, policy expertise, and reputation for advancing pragmatic solutions are unrivaled.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public outreach and education: this program category includes outreach to supporters, other organizations in the advocacy community, and the general public on taxes, budgets, regulations, consumer issues that intersect with taxpayer interests, tax administration, and free-market economic issues ranging from competition policy to strategies for combatting inflation. Ntu conducts this outreach through the organization's website, a weekly email newsletter, social media platforms, press releases and op-eds, broadcast media interviews, appearances at conferences, portions of direct mail letters and emails, and distribution of printed materials. This category also includes research and production associated with ntu rates congress, an annual scorecard based on roll call votes taken by lawmakers.
$2,058,151 spent83% of program spendingLobbying: this program category includes ntu's contacts with officials of federal, state, and local government to advocate on behalf of legislative and regulatory issues, testimonies, and comments at public hearings over tax, budget, and regulatory proposals, and coalition-building on the national and state levels with like-minded organizations for those advocacy purposes. This category also includes grassroots efforts to build public support through the use of action-oriented emails, certain types of traditional and targeted social media and electronic advertising, as well as certain petitions and other communications to public officials via direct mail and email.
$428,993 spent17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,487,144.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.2M to $8.5M (+63%).
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. 0 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.
Board chair
Michael D Fryt
Chairman/director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $121k.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION’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 TAXPAYERS UNION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 TAXPAYERS UNION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 31% · 2019 17% · 2020 21% · 2021 67% · 2022 21% · 2023 29% — 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
36% of NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
70% of NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION'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.
Organizations like NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Taxpayers Union Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: 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 TAXPAYERS UNION?
- NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,921,312 to it, the largest being THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE INC ($1,355,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,921,312 in grants to NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION?
- THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,355,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION 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 24 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing