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Big East Conference Inc

To promote, organize, & improve intercollegiate athletic competition between member institutions of the conference & enhance educational opportunities for its students.

$65M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,800,606
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,317,521
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$39M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Big East Conference Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$65M0%
FY202411$60M0%
FY202311$58M0%
FY202211$55M0%
FY202111$39M9%
FY202010$47M0%
FY201910$44M0%
FY201810$40M0%
100% 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$443M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
NE
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Villanova University$49,386,60891%
Creighton University$44,605,69291%
Marquette University$42,315,07691%
Georgetown University$41,023,76290%
Xavier University$40,804,75092%
Providence College$40,599,65792%
Seton Hall University$39,216,04391%
Butler University$39,083,18992%
St John's University New York$38,573,21791%
Depaul University$36,890,70591%
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All grantees of Big East Conference Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Villanova University$49,386,60891%
Creighton University$44,605,69291%
Marquette University$42,315,07691%
Georgetown University$41,023,76290%
Xavier University$40,804,75092%
Providence College$40,599,65792%
Seton Hall University$39,216,04391%
Butler University$39,083,18992%
St John's University New York$38,573,21791%
Depaul University$36,890,70591%
University of Connecticut$30,354,4125n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Big East Conference Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVillanova University: $49,386,608 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCreighton University: $44,605,692 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetMarquette University: $42,315,076 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetGeorgetown University: $41,023,762 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetXavier University: $40,804,750 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetProvidence College: $40,599,657 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetSeton Hall University: $39,216,043 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetButler University: $39,083,189 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetSt John's University New York: $38,573,217 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetDepaul University: $36,890,705 over 9y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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About Big East Conference Inc

How much does Big East Conference Inc give?
Big East Conference Inc reported 11 grants totaling $64,724,190 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Big East Conference Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (100%).
Who are Big East Conference Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Villanova University ($49M), Creighton University ($45M), Marquette University ($42M).
Does Big East Conference Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Big East Conference Inc based?
Big East Conference Inc is based in NY.

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 11 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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