Causes · Recreation and sports · large
Who funds large recreation and sports organizations
The funders that back large recreation and sports organizations are specialists, not generalists: Big East Conference Inc gives them 104.6× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Large recreation and sports institutions draw a deep funder base, 7 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.
The short version
- 10,751 funders gave $6.9B to 1,479 large recreation and sports organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is Big East Conference Inc, giving 104.6× the national rate to large recreation and sports organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is National Collegiate Athletic Association, at $542M.
- The large recreation and sports organization drawing the most is Northwestern University, at $711M.
Funders most focused on large recreation and sports organizations
Not the biggest checks, the most committed: each gives this size and cause an outsized share of its budget against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank.
Largest funders by dollars
Real grantmakers giving the most to large recreation and sports organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).
Large recreation and sports organizations that draw the most
Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.
Questions and answers
- How do I find funders for a large recreation and sports nonprofit?
- Start with the funders most focused on large recreation and sports organizations, currently Big East Conference Inc, San Antonio Bowl Association, Gator Bowl Sports Inc. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.
- What counts as a large organization here?
- Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is where each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear.
- How much grant money goes to large recreation and sports organizations?
- $6.9B reached 1,479 large recreation and sports organizations from 10,751 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.
- How recent is this data?
- It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.
More from the funding graph
Size is median total revenue; each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear. Read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML across recent fiscal years, among (c)(3) funders and recipients resolved by EIN, with the regranting layer netted out. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.