How much did National Collegiate Athletic Association grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of National Collegiate Athletic Association’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

scadeconomic impactimpact jobsjobs diversediverse industriesindustries realreal estate

2020

women's rugbyintercollegiate women'sniratriathlonbrandeisdistinctive internationalmeredith offers

2021

excellence educationbrandeiscareer educationlearning formnation's bestemory henrycicp

2022

whitworthwhittierequipsmary baldwinbirmingham-southernawareness involvementcatholics

2023

khsupositive impactgenerosity spiritmembership duesdedicated educationnadiiiaaarts theological

2024

agesfacingchildsoccer coachesyouth empowerresiliencelagrange

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 823 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k20 grants · $132k
$10k–50k361 grants · $8.4M
$50k–250k147 grants · $18M
$250k+295 grants · $679M

$66,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1B

Total assets

Largest grants

BIG TEN CONFERENCE$65,579,122
ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE$62,028,589
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE$53,273,099
BIG 12 CONFERENCE$38,393,021
BIG EAST CONFERENCE$25,047,012
PAC-12 CONFERENCE$24,984,840
AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE$18,931,084
MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE$13,390,209
WEST COAST CONFERENCE$13,244,880
ATLANTIC 10 CONFERENCE$12,269,331
SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE$10,977,313
MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE$10,630,074
MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE$10,592,674
SUN BELT CONFERENCE$10,449,744
SUMMIT LEAGUE (THE)$10,412,386

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 80% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.3B · 939 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

939 repeat relationships — 754 still active in FY2024, 185 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

939

119

Total granted

$4.3B

$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

Still filing today

63%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $502k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

BT
BIG TEN CONFERENCE
7× · 2018–2024 · $405M · revenue +16%
AC
ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE
7× · 2018–2024 · $396M · revenue +52%
SC
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE
7× · 2018–2024 · $310M · revenue +27%

Funded once

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +33%
CF
COLLEGE FOOTBALL 150TH ANNIVERSARY
one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue -51%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-RIVERSIDE
one grant, 2018 · $219k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

Columbia College

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

Education

William Penn University

William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.

Education

Union College

Offer a college experience including education, housing, & associated programs in lincoln, ne.

Education

Union College

Union college is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the united methodist church

Education

Westminster College

Four-year, undergraduate liberal arts college.

Education

Concordia University

Concordia university nebraska's mission is to be an excellent academic and christ-centered community equipping men and women for lives of learning, service and leadership in the church and the world. we primarily do this by providing…

Education

Andrews University

Education

The Colorado College

To transform our students by providing the finest liberal arts education available, taught through the academically rigorous, immersive, and flexible block plan.

Education

Luther College

On a campus of more than 800 acres along the banks of the upper iowa river in decorah, iowa, luther is a true residential campus, with 97 percent of students living on campus and nearly 95 percent of faculty choosing to live within five…

Education

Trinity College

Trinity is a comprehensive institution offering a broad range of educational programs that prepare students across the lifespan for the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of contemporary work, civic and family life.

Education

Wartburg College

Wartburg college provides educational programs and experiences that challenge and nurture students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Peter's University and the most unlike its peers is Usa Triathlon of Colorado. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 67 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%11/1,082

the rest of the field

11%

206,155/1,818,483

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

709 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

695/709

Grantees still filing

532/709

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,870,833,804Recreation & Sports$1,621,560,364Education$624,553,187Philanthropy$139,002,489Community Improvement$5,375,009Public Benefit$3,301,327International$2,000,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Folds of Honor FoundationOK185.2× affinity269 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · American Chemical Society · Council of Independent Colleges · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Tulsa Community Foundation · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · The Ohio Foundation Of · National Collegiate Investors & · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Mathematical Association of America Inc · Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation National Collegiate Athletic Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WEST COAST CONFERENCE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237286818 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WEST COAST CONFERENCE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to National Collegiate Athletic Association?

Find your warmest path to National Collegiate Athletic Association through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines