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National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association Inc

The mission of the national intramural-recreational sports association ("nirsa") is to be a leader in higher education and an advocate for the advancement of recreation, sport and wellness by providing educational and development opportunities, generating and sharing knowledge, and promoting networking and growth for our members.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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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 2024.

Education$82kScience & Tech$34kRecreation & Sports$20k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $29,454, the rows itemized in this filing. The $31,154 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,700 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$9,793
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROWAN UNIVERSITY$13,800
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$9,793
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$5,861
02The need
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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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 22%ADELPHI CAMPUS RECREATION: $7k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORDIA: $6k → 13%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 20%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA: $16k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $6k → 15%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON: $6k → 14%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 15%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $14k → 8%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $10k → 15%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 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

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MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CO
NC
GA
FL
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 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
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
2
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
3
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
4
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
5
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
6
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
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
9
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
10
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
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Central Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Southern Indiana Foundation Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA: $15,946 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIAROWAN UNIVERSITY: $13,800 · OtherROWAN UNIVERSITYMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $11,888 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $10,017 · OtherEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $9,793 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $7,518 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,330 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,663 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,146 · OtherKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITYNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUN…ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $6,595 · EducationADELPHI UNIVERSITYButler University: $6,339 · EducationButler UniversityUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $6,339 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATI…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA FOUNDATION INC: $6,258 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA FOUNDAT…University of Dayton: $5,600 · EducationUniversity of DaytonRIDER UNIVERSITY: $5,100 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITYDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $3,345 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY
Other$89,101Education$46,576

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 budgetNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $6,595 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetButler University: $6,339 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $6,339 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA FOUNDATION INC: $6,258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $3,345 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 Intramural-Recreational Sports Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Rider University: 1% 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 · 0–30%
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 National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association 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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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