Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence
NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being National Association of Wholesaler- Distributors Inc ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $120k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $412k
What NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence does
Mission
The Institute's mission is to sponsor and disseminate research into strategic management issues affecting the wholesale-distribution industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Institute is a leading publisher of research exclusively for and about the wholesale-distribution industry. The premier publication consists of its Facing the Forces of Change series - a deep dive into the wholesale-distribution industry with themes including identifying the primary industry disrupter and implications of a changing workforce.
$118,453 spent$191,988 earned by the program90% of program spendingThe NAW Distributor Executive Networks program (DENs) provide an exclusive intimate forum for CEOs and Presidents within the distribution industry to do a confidential deep dive on their business challenges with their peers.
$12,500 spent$60,800 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $130,953.
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 2021 to 2022, from $262k to $321k (+23%).
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.
99% of NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $15k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence’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
NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
77% 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 NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 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
71% of NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence'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. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence: 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 NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence?
- NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being National Association of Wholesaler- Distributors Inc ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $110,000 in grants to NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence?
- National Association of Wholesaler- Distributors Inc is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence 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.
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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 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