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National Federation Foundation

The nfhs foundation's purpose is to serve and protect the integrity of high school sports and activities by funding research and programs in the areas of risk minimization and leadership.

$86k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Recreation & Sports$309kHealth$261kEducation$124kScience & Tech$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$7k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $32,150, the rows itemized in this filing. The $86,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Datalys Center for Sport Injury Research$25,000
AED for Athletes$7,150
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MASSACHUSETTS INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $25k → 7%MAYO CLINIC: $94k → 9%NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION: $15k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (COLLEGE OF EDUC): $11k → 8%WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-DENVER: $34k → 10%Datalys Center for Sport Injury Research: $25k → 16%WASHINGTON INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION: $57k → 9%MASSACHUSETTS INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $6k → 7%AED for Athletes: $7k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-DENVER: $25k → 10%DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-DENVER: $25k → 10%Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research: $25k → 16%DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH: $25k → 16%DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH: $25k → 16%DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH: $25k → 16%Indiana Sports Corp: $25k → 16%NFHS: $25k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
MA
IN
PA
CT
CO
KS
HI
GA
TX
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$344k · 5 repeat orgs$244k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +122% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$344k
$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+122%
+14%

Still filing today

40%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationHealthOther
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

  • DC
    DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +24%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    3× · 2017–2019 · $84k
  • UO
    University of Wisconsin Madison
    4× · 2018–2022 · $78k

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2023 · $58k
  • WI
    WASHINGTON INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $57k · revenue +2%
  • HH
    Hartford Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +80%
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
Florida High School Athletic Association Inc

Operation, promotion, direction, supervision, and regulation of interscholastic athletics of member high schools in florida.

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2
Michigan High School Athletic Assoc

To conduct interscholastic athletic tournaments throughout the state, consistent with educational values of high school curriculums, to provide assistance in the training of coaches, athletic directors and officials, as well as the…

Education
3
National Collegiate Athletic Association

Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.

Recreation & Sports
4
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

The national association of intercollegiate athletics (naia)'s mission is to promote the education and development of students through intercollegiate athletics participation.

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5
North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc

The mission of the nchsaa is to provide governance and leadership for interscholastic athletic programs in north carolina that support and enrich the educational experience of students; the administration of the state's interscholastic…

Recreation & Sports
6
Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Assoc

To organize, develop, direct and control interscholastic athletic programs.

Recreation & Sports
7
Western Athletic Conference

The conference is committed to providing student-athletes an exemplary university experience - both on and off the field of play. with high standards of integrity at the core of our athletic and academic excellences, our goal is to unlock…

Recreation & Sports
8
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

See schedule o.the minnesota intercollegiate athletic conference strives to guide, govern, and support fair and equitable athletic competition, promote student-athlete well-being among its members, and celebrate combined excellence and…

Education
9
Mid-American Athletic Conference Inc

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

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10
Arizona Interscholastic Association Inc

Provide governance and state coordination for interscholastic activities, which enriches the education-based athletics and activities of arizona high schools, in a fair, diverse and equitable manner.

Recreation & Sports
11
Big West Conference

The purpose is to maintain intercollegiate athletics as an integral part of the education program and the athlete as an integral part of the student body and by doing so, retain a clear line of demarcation between college athletics and…

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12
Ohio High School Athletic Association

Ohio high school athletic association is a not-for-profit association of public and private high schools and 7th-8th grade schools. approximately 820 high schools and nearly 760 7th-8th grade schools belong to the ohsaa, which represents…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Wrestling Coaches Association. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $84,381 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $78,306 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $57,775 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLDATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH: $50,000 · OtherDATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCHNational Federation of State High School Associations: $24,750 · OtherNational Federation of State High School Associat…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $11,024 · Other+1 more: $7,150 · OtherDATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsDATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS IN…MASSACHUSETTS INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $31,000 · Recreation & SportsMASSACHUSETTS INTERSCHOLASTI…INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsINDIANA SPORTS CORPORATIONNATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES A…HAWAII HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsMAYO CLINIC: $134,529 · HealthMAYO CLINICHartford Hospital: $32,911 · HealthHartford HospitalWASHINGTON INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION: $56,500 · EducationWASHINGTO…WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,547 · EducationWICHITA S…
Other$313,386Recreation & Sports$178,500Health$167,440Education$63,047

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $134,529 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION: $56,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHartford Hospital: $32,911 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $31,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetINDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Federation of State High School Associations: $24,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHAWAII HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,547 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Federation Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Federation Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 16 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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