How do I find funders for a mid-size recreation and sports nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size recreation and sports organizations, currently Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, Florida State Golf Association Inc, North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.

How much grant money goes to mid-size recreation and sports organizations?

$5.9B reached 4,374 mid-size recreation and sports organizations from 15,905 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.

Causes · Recreation and sports · mid-size

Who funds mid-size recreation and sports organizations

The funders that back mid-size recreation and sports organizations are specialists, not generalists: Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy gives them 150.3× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

$5.9B

granted

4,374

organizations

15,905

funders

The short version

15,905 funders gave $5.9B to 4,374 mid-size recreation and sports organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, giving 150.3× the national rate to mid-size recreation and sports organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is National Collegiate Athletic Association, at $787M.
The mid-size recreation and sports organization drawing the most is Southland Conference, at $85M.

Funders most focused on mid-size 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.

Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy150.3×$56M · 100% of its giving Florida State Golf Association Inc144.6×$32M · 100% of its giving North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc137×$22M · 98% of its giving Boise State University Foundation Inc132.3×$33M · 90% of its giving 21st Century Parks Endowment Inc129×$13M · 100% of its giving American Junior Golf Association Inc128.2×$13M · 100% of its giving The Foundation Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club125.8×$12M · 100% of its giving Special Olympics Inc122.6×$240M · 78% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

Real grantmakers giving the most to mid-size recreation and sports organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).

1National Collegiate Athletic Association$787M 2Special Olympics Inc$240M 3United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee$138M 4Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy$56M 5Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc$45M 6Boise State University Foundation Inc$33M 7Lilly Endowment Inc$32M 8Florida State Golf Association Inc$32M

Mid-size recreation and sports organizations that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

4,364 other mid-size recreation and sports organizations$5.3B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size recreation and sports nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size recreation and sports organizations, currently Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, Florida State Golf Association Inc, North Carolina High School Athletic Association 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 mid-size organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: mid-size ($1M to $10M). 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 mid-size recreation and sports organizations?: $5.9B reached 4,374 mid-size recreation and sports organizations from 15,905 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

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

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.