· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40M went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Miami9× · 2017–2025 · $331M · revenue +96%
DUKE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $329M · revenue +51%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $328M · revenue +70%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2025 · $23M
Southern Methodist Universityone grant, 2025 · $17M · revenue 0%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Atlantic Coast Conference funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Atlantic Coast Conference. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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