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· Public charity

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Inc

To provide member institutions the opportunity to conduct men's and women's intercollegiate athletics within a context that holds paramount the academic programs of member institutions and the academic and personal growth of student participants.

$8.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$826k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$27MRecreation & Sports$1.6M
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$640,861
Median grant
4
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Quinnipiac University$825,677
Sacred Heart University$785,237
Marist College$685,396
Canisius College$667,528
Niagara University$645,164
Fairfield University$643,016
Iona College$640,861
Manhattan College$625,515
Saint Peters University$613,831
Mount Saint Mary College$599,170
Rider University$590,906
Siena College$571,023
Merrimack College$350,307
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Merrimack College: $350k → 10%Marist College: $685k → 9%Iona College: $641k → 9%Canisius College: $668k → 13%Siena College: $571k → 14%Niagara University: $645k → 14%Mount Saint Mary College: $599k → 14%Manhattan College: $626k → 28%Sacred Heart University: $785k → 9%Quinnipiac University: $826k → 12%Monmouth University: $1.0M → 6%Rider University: $591k → 11%Saint Peters University: $614k → 14%Marist College: $453k → 9%Iona College: $388k → 9%Canisius College: $409k → 13%Siena College: $383k → 14%Niagara University: $411k → 14%Mount Saint Mary College: $286k → 14%Manhattan College: $462k → 28%Fairfield University: $643k → 9%Quinnipiac University: $695k → 12%Monmouth University: $793k → 6%Rider University: $397k → 11%Saint Peters University: $411k → 14%Marist College: $315k → 9%Iona College: $314k → 9%Canisius College: $397k → 13%Siena College: $327k → 14%Niagara University: $400k → 14%Manhattan College: $322k → 28%Fairfield University: $440k → 9%Quinnipiac University: $375k → 12%Monmouth University: $325k → 6%Rider University: $352k → 11%Saint Peters University: $326k → 14%Marist College: $314k → 9%Iona College: $312k → 9%Siena College: $318k → 14%Manhattan College: $293k → 28%Fairfield University: $398k → 9%Quinnipiac University: $335k → 12%Rider University: $351k → 11%Saint Peters University: $295k → 14%Marist College: $304k → 9%Quinnipiac University: $329k → 12%Rider University: $292k → 11%Quinnipiac University: $301k → 12%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 12 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$27M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • QU
    QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +39%
  • MU
    MARIST UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +52%
  • MU
    MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • SH
    SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2025 · $785k · revenue 0%
  • MERRIMACK COLLEGE
    one grant, 2025 · $350k · revenue 0%
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
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
5
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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6
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
7
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
8
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
11
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
12
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marist University; the most unlike its peers is Siena University. 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

15 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.

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)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $3,006,843 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYMARIST UNIVERSITY: $2,441,239 · EducationMARIST UNIVERSITYRIDER UNIVERSITY: $2,395,082 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITYMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $2,391,308 · EducationMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INCManhattan University: $2,320,868 · EducationManhattan UniversityNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $2,291,867 · EducationNIAGARA UNIVERSITYIONA UNIVERSITY: $2,288,919 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITYSIENA UNIVERSITY: $2,259,102 · EducationSIENA UNIVERSITYFairfield University: $2,255,588 · EducationFairfield UniversityCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $2,238,812 · EducationCANISIUS UNIVERSITYSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY: $2,238,342 · EducationSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITYMount Saint Mary College: $1,136,957 · Education+2 more: $1,135,544 · Education
Education$28,400,471

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 budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $3,006,843 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $2,441,239 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $2,395,082 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $2,391,308 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetManhattan University: $2,320,868 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $2,291,867 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY: $2,288,919 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $2,259,102 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFairfield University: $2,255,588 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $2,238,812 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY: $2,238,342 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMount Saint Mary College: $1,136,957 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $785,237 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $350,307 over 1y, 0.1% 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 QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Manhattan University ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield University ↗
  • Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Mount Saint Mary College ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗

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.

Ernst & Young Foundat…National Collegiate A…Verizon FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ernst & Young FoundationNY14× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ernst & Young Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · 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 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Merrimack College: 2% of income from government
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 14 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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