North Carolina · Public charity
Charlotte Sports Foundation
The Charlotte Sports Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization created in 2013 to provide leadership for sports-based initiatives that enhance the economy and quality of life in the Charlotte region. We provide unique events and business opportunities around professional, collegiate and amateur sporting events. Our efforts are…
- $21M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $8.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $291,685
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Charlotte Sports Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $814k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $8.3M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $8.8M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $9.8M | 70% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $17M | 60% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $1.6M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $8.1M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $9.6M | 60% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $7.7M | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Coast Conference | $28,048,253 | 9 | 1% |
| Southeastern Conference | $9,172,185 | 4 | 0% |
| Clemson University | $5,037,287 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Georgia | $5,037,287 | 1 | n/a |
| Nc State University | $3,251,521 | 3 | n/a |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | $2,750,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Virginia | $2,502,738 | 1 | n/a |
| Maryland University | $2,450,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Minnesota | $2,450,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Kentucky | $2,427,200 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Coast Conference | $28,048,253 | 9 | 1% |
| Southeastern Conference | $9,172,185 | 4 | 0% |
| Clemson University | $5,037,287 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Georgia | $5,037,287 | 1 | n/a |
| Nc State University | $3,251,521 | 3 | n/a |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | $2,750,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Virginia | $2,502,738 | 1 | n/a |
| Maryland University | $2,450,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Minnesota | $2,450,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Kentucky | $2,427,200 | 1 | n/a |
| USC School of Medicine Greenville | $2,275,226 | 6 | n/a |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $2,044,537 | 4 | n/a |
| State of West Virginia | $1,098,212 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Tennessee | $946,395 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | $896,419 | 3 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $883,560 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Florida | $880,947 | 3 | n/a |
| North Carolina Central University | $739,978 | 1 | n/a |
| The Big Ten Conference Inc | $700,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Appalachian State University | $653,510 | 1 | n/a |
| North Carolina a & T State University | $493,318 | 1 | n/a |
| State University of Iowa | $375,250 | 2 | n/a |
| ESPN Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Big 12 Conference Inc | $238,555 | 1 | 0% |
| 100 Black Men of Charlotte Inc | $154,162 | 1 | 44% |
| National Collegiate Athletic Association | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Charlotte Sports Foundation
- How much does Charlotte Sports Foundation give?
- Charlotte Sports Foundation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $8,276,196, out of $20,639,154 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Charlotte Sports Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (100%), Youth Development (0%), Public Benefit (0%).
- Who are Charlotte Sports Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Atlantic Coast Conference ($28M), Southeastern Conference ($9.2M), Clemson University ($5.0M).
- Does Charlotte Sports Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charlotte Sports Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, Folds of Honor Foundation, Tulsa Community Foundation.
- Where is Charlotte Sports Foundation based?
- Charlotte Sports Foundation is based in NC.
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