Virginia · Nonprofit
NRA FOUNDATION INC
NRA FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,634,099 to it, the largest being MARGIE AND ROBERT E PETERSEN FOUNDATION CO THEODORE CALLETON ($8,148,169). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 158
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $202M
What NRA Foundation Inc does
Mission
Support firearm-related public interest activities to defend and foster the second amendment right of law-abiding americans. Promote firearms and hunting safety, enhance marksmanships skills of shooting sports participants, and educate the general public about firearms in their historic, technological and artistic context.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The nra foundation financially supports programs that provide direct community support, including: eddie eagle gunsafe program for children; partners in shooting, working with individuals with physical disabilities in the shooting sports; refuse to be a victim program training women on how to avoid being the victim of a crime; wildlife and natural resource conservation goals, such as hunters for the hungry; environment conservation and hunting outreach (echo); youth hunter education challenge (yhec); national school shield; basic firearms training and safety courses; marksmanship qualification programs; instructor and range safety officer certifications; and law enforcement training. Boy scouts and 4-h groups are among the most frequent recipients of funding - for merit badge, hunter education and safety training. Numerous programs benefit men, women and youth across the country.
$20,320,813 spentof which $17,507,041 as grants100% of program spendingThe nra foundation's national firearms law seminar is conducted annually and is an opportunity for attorneys who represent firearms owners and firearms-related businesses to meet and discuss legal issues and theories relevant to this expanding area of the law. A nationally-renowned faculty is always on hand to address a broad range of firearms-related issues.
$63,799 spent$20,455 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,384,612.
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 $194M to $212M (+9%).
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.
51% of NRA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 50 funders to 46 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $431k.
32 of 158 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $45k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest NRA Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NRA FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NRA FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 158 funders by total. 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
NRA FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 NRA FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 92% · 2019 15% · 2020 26% · 2021 18% · 2022 28% · 2023 10% — 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
27% of NRA FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
NRA FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 36 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
NRA FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NRA FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.
- Refunds-Overpayment Charges$4k
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 NRA FOUNDATION 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 32 states
Part of a family of 38 related entities
- Elizabethtown Friends of NRA LLC · disregarded
- Northern Kentucky Friends of NRA LLC · disregarded
- Big Rivers Friends of NRA LLC · disregarded
- Danville Friends of NRA LLC · disregarded
- NRA Foundation State Fund Committee LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NRA FOUNDATION 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 NRA FOUNDATION INC?
- NRA FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,634,099 to it, the largest being MARGIE AND ROBERT E PETERSEN FOUNDATION CO THEODORE CALLETON ($8,148,169). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NRA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 158 organizations giving $14,634,099 in grants to NRA FOUNDATION INC, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NRA FOUNDATION INC?
- MARGIE AND ROBERT E PETERSEN FOUNDATION CO THEODORE CALLETON is the largest funder on record, with $8,148,169 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NRA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 158 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