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· Public charity

College Sports Communicators Inc

The organization has two primary missions as it seeks to have its profession, organization and membership take a leadership role within the decision-making levels of the intercollegiate athletics community: 1) assist communications and creative content professionals at all collegiate levels with professional development and continuing…

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$183kScience & Tech$15k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $32,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $74,701 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,201 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$8,750
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY$8,750
CROWN COLLEGE$8,750
UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS$7,500
COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY$7,500
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CROWN COLLEGE: $9k → 11%THE SAGE COLLEGES: $8k → 11%BENEDICT COLLEGE (SC): $8k → 16%WARTBURG COLLEGE: $8k → 7%CORNERSTONE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE (MO): $8k → 11%ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 17%WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 9%ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS (ILL): $8k → 7%CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $9k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $8k → 9%COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%WARTBURG COLLEGE: $8k → 7%ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 17%ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS (ILL): $8k → 7%CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $8k → 9%COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
SD
IA
OH
CO
MO
MD
SC
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$150k · 10 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$150k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+30%

Still filing today

70%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WC
    WARTBURG COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue -17%
  • CS
    COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +153%
  • CU
    Cornerstone University
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue -21%

Funded once

  • BC
    BENEDICT COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -13%
  • WC
    WESTMINSTER COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +30%
  • RS
    RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +47%
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

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.

1
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
4
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
5
Roberts Wesleyan University

As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.

Education
6
Simpson College

Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.

Education
7
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Hilbert College

Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…

Education
10
Asbury College

Asbury university equips students, through academic excellence and spiritual vitality, for lifelong learning, leadership, and service to the professions, society, the family and the church, preparing them to engage their cultures and…

Education
11
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
12
Crown College

The mission of crown college is to provide a biblically based education for christian leadership in the christian and missionary alliance, the church-at-large, and the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashland University; the most unlike its peers is Coppin State University Development Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WARTBURG COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationWARTBURG COLLEGECOPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationCOPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCCornerstone University: $15,000 · EducationCornerstone UniversityUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLSASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationASHLAND UNIVERSITYMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $8,750 · EducationMILLIKIN UNIVERSITYBENEDICT COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationBENEDICT COLLEGEWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationWESTMINSTER COLLEGERUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCISUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherADAMS STATE UNIVERSITYChicago State University: $15,000 · OtherChicago State UniversityCROWN COLLEGE: $8,750 · OtherCROWN COLLEGEWright State University: $7,500 · OtherWright State UniversityUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Education$106,250Other$76,250Philanthropy$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWARTBURG COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCornerstone University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $8,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROWN COLLEGE: $8,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $7,500 over 1y, 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.

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 A…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 College Sports Communicators Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from College Sports Communicators Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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 16 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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