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Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc

Foster amateur intercollegiate sports competition between member institution teams under the rules and regulations of the ncaa.

$36M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$35M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$3,072,596
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,218,889
Organizations funded a year
12 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$35M0%
FY202412$30M0%
FY202312$28M0%
FY202212$28M0%
FY202112$22M0%
FY202012$24M0%
FY201912$24M0%
FY201812$26M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$224MRecreation & Sports$19MPhilanthropy$99k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Toledo$22,382,7489n/a
Ohio University$22,180,3689n/a
Miami University$20,966,6629n/a
State University of New York at Binghamton$20,949,5119n/a
Board of Regents of Eastern Michigan University$20,797,4009n/a
Western Michigan University$20,662,8059n/a
Northern Illinois University$20,094,3079n/a
Central Michigan University$20,031,5039n/a
Sigma Chi Fraternity$19,263,0639n/a
The University of Akron$19,068,2159n/a
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All grantees of Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Toledo$22,382,7489n/a
Ohio University$22,180,3689n/a
Miami University$20,966,6629n/a
State University of New York at Binghamton$20,949,5119n/a
Board of Regents of Eastern Michigan University$20,797,4009n/a
Western Michigan University$20,662,8059n/a
Northern Illinois University$20,094,3079n/a
Central Michigan University$20,031,5039n/a
Sigma Chi Fraternity$19,263,0639n/a
The University of Akron$19,068,2159n/a
Bowling Green State University$18,518,7909n/a
Ball State University$18,277,0049n/a

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 AssociationIN17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · American Chemical Society · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · The Dayton 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.

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How do I get to Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mid-American 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.

About Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc

How much does Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc give?
Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $34,573,609, out of $36,131,242 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Recreation & Sports (8%), Philanthropy (0%).
Who are Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Toledo ($22M), Ohio University ($22M), Miami University ($21M).
Does Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, Folds of Honor Foundation, Tulsa Community Foundation.
Where is Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc based?
Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc is based in OH.

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 13 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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