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American Athletic Conference

The american conference's mission is to provide students with the highest quality education and level of competition.

$127M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$13M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$764M
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,917,118
Median grant
11
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$12,641,594
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA$12,449,901
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS$11,987,360
TULANE UNIVERSITY$11,669,334
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$11,461,931
UNIVERSITY OF TULSA$11,207,833
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY$9,047,581
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO$6,917,118
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS$6,887,698
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$6,521,607
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$6,376,732
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE$6,321,708
RICE UNIVERSITY$6,190,345
ARMY WEST POINT$3,876,900
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY$3,212,282
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $11.5M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $6.9M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO: $6.9M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: $11.2M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $9.5M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $12.4M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $9.2M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $12.0M → 17%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $12.6M → 10%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $8.8M → 20%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $12.3M → 23%UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY: $9.0M → 6%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $9.7M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: $9.6M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $8.9M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $10.3M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $8.1M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $11.0M → 17%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $9.7M → 10%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $8.3M → 20%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $11.7M → 23%UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY: $7.3M → 6%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $8.3M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $8.8M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: $8.3M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $8.0M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $8.9M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $9.0M → 17%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $7.6M → 20%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $10.8M → 23%UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY: $6.7M → 6%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $7.7M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $8.5M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: $8.2M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $7.5M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $8.9M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $8.9M → 17%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $7.9M → 23%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $7.6M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $8.3M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: $8.0M → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $7.4M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $8.2M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $8.7M → 17%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $7.6M → 23%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $7.7M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $8.0M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $7.6M → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
PA
CT
MD
KS
TN
NC
OK
LA
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$760M · 19 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
1

Total granted

$760M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
0%

Still filing today

32%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72M · revenue +227% · 38% of their budget
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $66M · revenue +72%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    9× · 2017–2025 · $65M · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • AW
    Army West Point Athletic Association inc
    one grant, 2025 · $3.9M
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $74,257,490 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDAEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $62,539,722 · OtherEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $57,227,915 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $50,691,384 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDANAVAL ACADEMY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $46,290,058 · OtherNAVAL ACADEMY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $45,242,728 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $24,877,915 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTKANSAS ATHLETICS INC: $15,748,411 · Other+5 more: $55,001,601 · Other+5 moreUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $72,120,028 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATIONTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $66,254,906 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUN…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $65,121,678 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System o…The University of Tulsa: $61,852,502 · EducationThe University of TulsaSouthern Methodist University: $52,186,923 · EducationSouthern Methodist UniversityWilliam Marsh Rice University: $11,033,310 · EducationArmy West Point Athletic Association inc: $3,876,900 · Recreation & Sports
Other$431,877,224Education$328,569,347Recreation & Sports$3,876,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $72,120,028 over 9y, 38% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $66,254,906 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $65,121,678 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $61,852,502 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $52,186,923 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $11,033,310 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds Army West Point Athletic Association inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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Folds of Honor FoundationOK13.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Athletic Conference funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Athletic Conference. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The University of Tulsa: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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