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Atlantic Coast Conference

The ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE, through its member institutions, seeks to maximize the educational and athletic opportunities of its student-athletes while enriching their quality of life.

$737M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
States reached
$55M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$4.3BRecreation & Sports$477M
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$46,461,278
Median grant
States reached
$364M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$55,129,046
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$49,448,990
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$48,250,645
DUKE UNIVERSITY$48,236,296
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$47,916,855
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE$47,381,878
BOSTON COLLEGE$47,087,682
VIRGINIA TECH$46,546,737
NC STATE UNIVERSITY$46,461,278
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$46,304,685
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECH$46,052,588
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$43,626,888
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY$43,601,179
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$42,814,168
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$22,993,712
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6B · 14 repeat orgs$40M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$4.6B
$40M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40M went to new ones.

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

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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 Miami
    9× · 2017–2025 · $331M · revenue +96%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $329M · revenue +51%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $328M · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2025 · $23M
  • Southern Methodist University
    one grant, 2025 · $17M · revenue 0%

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

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
5
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
8
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
9
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
10
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
11
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
12
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Duke University and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Miami — $330,825,687 · EducationUniversity of MiamiDUKE UNIVERSITY — $329,212,960 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $328,470,315 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $327,949,498 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $327,122,921 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $320,965,715 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $320,483,127 · EducationGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INCUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $144,654,686 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac+2 more — $36,622,766 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY — $357,941,284 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $333,145,262 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE — $332,035,804 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLENC STATE UNIVERSITY — $328,979,931 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY — $327,822,888 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY — $326,881,879 · OtherFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITYRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $323,944,845 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA+1 more — $22,993,712 · Other
Education$2,466,307,675Other$2,353,745,605

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Miami — $330,825,687 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $329,212,960 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $328,470,315 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $327,949,498 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $327,122,921 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $320,965,715 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $320,483,127 over 9y, 45% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $144,654,686 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $17,065,303 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds University of Miami
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Atlantic Coast Conference funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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