The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) is a federation of cooperative grocery stores founded in 1999 in the United States. NCGA's membership includes 109 independent food cooperatives who have a combined annual sales of $945 million. In total, there are nearly 300 food co-operatives in the U.S. NCGA is the publisher of Co-operative Grocer, the monthly trade publication for U.S. food co-operatives, first published in 1985.