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Durham Sports Commission

The DURHAM SPORTS COMMISSION's mission is to create economic and social impact by leading the community's efforts to attract, support, and promote youth, amateur, collegiate, and professional sporting and recreational events.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$541kEducation$9kReligion$8kHealth$7kYouth Development$4kCommunity Improvement$3kArts & Culture$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$409k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEGIT BALLAZZ 7V7 FOOTBALL INC$15,000
SHAW UNIVERSITY$10,000
CENTRAL INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$10,000
DURHAM STRIDERS YOUTH ASSOCIATION$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$7,000
TRIANGLE ULTIMATE$6,470
BULL CITY EXPRESS TRACK CLUB$5,750
MBP HELPING HANDS INC$4,200
HILLSIDE HIGH SCHOOL$3,500
SUSAN G KOMEN NCTC$3,500
FORGE FOUNDATION$3,000
NORTH CAROLINA SENIOR GAMES INC$3,000
HOPE VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB INC$3,000
FISHERS OF MEN MINISTRIES INC$2,500
1ST AND GOAL 365 LLC$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NORTH CAROLINA SENIOR GAMES INC: $3k → 8%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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$425k · 13 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$425k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

62%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DS
    Durham Striders Youth Association Inc
    4× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +70%
  • BC
    Bull City Express Track Club
    6× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +64%
  • NORTH CAROLINA AMATEUR SPORTS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $32k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $45k
  • CB
    CAROLINA BOWL
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • DC
    DURHAM CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
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
Copperhead Sports Inc
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2
North Carolina Amateur Baseball Club Inc
Recreation & Sports
3
North Carolina Coaches Association

Promote and improve athletics in north carolina's public schools and to foster high standards of ethics and sportsmanship.

Recreation & Sports
4
North Carolina Sports Legacy Foundation Fka Promote the Youth Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Greensboro Sports Foundation

Further enhance tournament town reputation and build an organization with the ability to develop strategic partners to better position greensboro for the execution of major sports events.

Recreation & Sports
6
North Carolina Elite Volleyball Clu

Dedication to the growth of volleyball in raleigh/durham.

Recreation & Sports
7
Carolinas Golf Association

The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…

Recreation & Sports
8
Triad United Rowing Association

Triad United Rowing Association is a 501(C)3 nonprofit corporation with a mission of providing local area youth and adults with recreational and competitive rowing opportunities and related water activities such as boating safety, while…

Youth Development
9
North Carolina Quarter Midget Assoc

To create and maintain a clean, safe, healthy sport, which may be enjoyed by kids ages 5 through 16

Human Services
10
Nc Triad Fusion Inc

Positively impact people for life by creating intentional experiences through sport.

Recreation & Sports
11
Durham Sports Commission

The durham sports commission's mission is to create economic and social impact by leading the community's efforts to attract, support, and promote youth, amateur, collegiate, and professional sporting and recreational events.

Recreation & Sports
12
South Carolina Golf Association

To preserve, promote, and serve the game of golf

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Durham Bulls Baseball Club: $81,755 · OtherDurham Bulls Baseball ClubRON N SHOOT SPORTS: $53,000 · OtherRON N SHOOT SPORTSIndividual grant recipient: $45,234 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFS Series: $40,000 · OtherFS SeriesCENTRAL INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOC: $30,000 · OtherCENTRAL INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCDURHAM CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: $18,806 · OtherDURHAM CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAUHOPE VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB: $17,000 · OtherLEGIT BALLAZZ 7V7 FOOTBALL INC: $15,000 · Other+14 more: $37,378 · Other+14 moreDurham Striders Youth Association Inc: $53,000 · Recreation & SportsDurham Striders Youth Association I…Bull City Express Track Club: $50,600 · Recreation & SportsBull City Express Track ClubNORTH CAROLINA AMATEUR SPORTS INC: $31,648 · Recreation & SportsNORTH CAROLINA AMATEUR SPORTS INCNORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $24,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC…American Junior Golf Association Inc: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsTRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION: $6,470 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $10,950 · Recreation & Sports+3 moreTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationCAROLINA BOWL: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSWINGPALS INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentFISHERS OF MEN MINISTRIES INC: $7,500 · ReligionThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $3,500 · HealthAUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 · HealthNORTH CAROLINA SENIOR GAMES INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesDURHAMCARES INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$338,173Recreation & Sports$184,168Education$25,000Youth Development$21,000Religion$7,500Health$6,000Human Services$3,000Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetDurham Striders Youth Association Inc: $53,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetBull City Express Track Club: $50,600 over 6y, 18% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA AMATEUR SPORTS INC: $31,648 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRAL INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAROLINA BOWL: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROASDAILE COUNTRY CLUB INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFISHERS OF MEN MINISTRIES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION: $6,470 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRIANGLE CHAMPIONS TRACK CLUB: $6,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSWINGPALS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDUKE HOMESTEAD EDUCATION AND HISTORY CORPORATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDURHAMCARES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDurham Parks Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Duke UniversityTriangle Community Fo…Duke University Healt…Duke Energy FoundationDick's Sporting Goods…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Duke UniversityNC17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke University · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Durham Sports Commission funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Durham Sports Commission. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 40 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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