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 Paul Simons Foundation Inc, Ed Snider Youth Hockey Supporting, Florida State Golf 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 its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.

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

$1.6B reached 1,595 mid-size recreation and sports organizations from 7,653 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: Paul Simons Foundation Inc gives them 168.5× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here.

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The short version

7,653 funders gave $1.6B to 1,595 mid-size recreation and sports organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Paul Simons Foundation Inc, giving 168.5× the national rate to mid-size recreation and sports organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is National Collegiate Athletic Association, at $69M.
The mid-size recreation and sports organization drawing the most is Southland Conference, at $32M.

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.

Paul Simons Foundation Inc168.5×$21M · 100% of its giving Ed Snider Youth Hockey Supporting155.5×$13M · 100% of its giving Florida State Golf Association Inc152.8×$12M · 100% of its giving Waterstone Support Foundation Inc152×$13M · 97% of its giving Jaeb Center for Health Research150.2×$11M · 100% of its giving 21st Century Parks Endowment Inc149.3×$10M · 100% of its giving Boise State University Foundation Inc141.7×$8M · 100% of its giving Birmingham Kiwanis Foundation126.5×$6M · 100% 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$69M 2Special Olympics Inc$27M 3United States Olympic and Paralympic$26M 4Paul Simons Foundation Inc$21M 5Ed Snider Youth Hockey Supporting$13M 6Waterstone Support Foundation Inc$13M 7The Community Foundation Of$12M 8Florida State Golf Association Inc$12M

Mid-size recreation and sports organizations that draw the most

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

1,585 other mid-size recreation and sports organizations$1.4B

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 Paul Simons Foundation Inc, Ed Snider Youth Hockey Supporting, Florida State Golf 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 its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to mid-size recreation and sports organizations?: $1.6B reached 1,595 mid-size recreation and sports organizations from 7,653 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 regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

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; cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File. 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.