· Public charity
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
949 repeat relationships — 744 still active in FY2024, 205 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $476k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TBTHE BIG TEN CONFERENCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $463M · revenue +186%
- ACATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE8× · 2017–2024 · $447M · revenue +98%
- SCSOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE8× · 2017–2024 · $349M · revenue +71%
Funded once
- CPCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $727k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2017 · $702k
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY-BAKERSFIELDone grant, 2017 · $530k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Doane university creates distinctive educational experiences, immersed in the liberal arts, to prepare our students for careers and lives grounded in inquiry, ethics, and a commitment to lead and serve in the global community.
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…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Xi Sigma Alumni Chapter of Central Indiana of Phi Beta Sigma. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
746 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 746 of the 1,133 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds THE BIG TEN CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PAC-12 CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds BIG EAST CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC 10 CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds West Coast Conference ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds THE MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds CONFERENCE USA ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MID-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SUN BELT CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds THE PATRIOT LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG WEST CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC SUN CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds HORIZON LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference ↗
- Who funds THE BIG SOUTH CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · American Chemical Society · Council of Independent Colleges · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Writing Project Corporation · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Strada Education Foundation 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 organization 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.
- University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
- Delaware State University — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 2% 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
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 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.