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Coastal Athletic Association

To provide an orgzanization through which member institutions may maintain intercollegiate athletics with dignity.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$484kScience & Tech$39kRecreation & Sports$38k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$18,796
Median grant
3
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$23,244
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$18,796
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY$13,062
THE RESEARCH FNDT FOR STATE UNI NY$13,000
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $7k → 10%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $23k → 22%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $13k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $19k → 12%ELON UNIVERSITY: $29k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $7k → 18%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $19k → 14%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $36k → 29%TOWSON UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $6k → 10%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $23k → 22%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $13k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $13k → 12%ELON UNIVERSITY: $28k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $7k → 18%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $19k → 14%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $23k → 29%TOWSON UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $23k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $9k → 12%ELON UNIVERSITY: $22k → 13%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 29%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $16k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $9k → 12%ELON UNIVERSITY: $19k → 13%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $18k → 29%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $8k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $7k → 12%ELON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 13%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $12k → 29%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $8k → 22%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $8k → 22%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

IL
NY
PA
WV
VA
MD
DE
NC
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.
$555k · 11 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$555k
$5k

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’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

  • Elon University
    5× · 2018–2023 · $112k · revenue +42%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +7%
  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    2× · 2024–2025 · $26k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Elon University: $111,559 · EducationElon UniversityDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $107,986 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $26,124 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $26,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New Y…THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $14,834 · EducationJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $108,800 · OtherJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITYUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv: $57,167 · OtherUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington - Co…WILLIAM & MARY: $36,834 · OtherWILLIAM & MARYUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $15,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $12,667 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE+1 more: $5,344 · OtherNorthwestern University: $37,592 · Recreation & Sports
Education$286,503Other$236,312Recreation & Sports$37,592

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 budgetElon University: $111,559 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $107,986 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $37,592 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $26,124 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $14,834 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $12,667 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Elon University ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗

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.

National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Tulsa Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Coastal Athletic Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coastal Athletic Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% 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 · 0–50%
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 12 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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