How much does Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference give?

Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference reported 15 itemized grants totaling $123,940, out of $202,178 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.

What does Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference fund?

By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (100%).

Who are Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: US Council for Athletes' Health ($31k), Logo Pro LLC ($23k), Doug Peters Enterprises ($17k).

Which funders back the same organizations as Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sanford Group Return, Tulsa Community Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.

Where is Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference based?

Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference is based in MN.

Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference

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· Public charity

Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference

The NSIC is a model Division II conference that uses high-level athletics competition to develop champions in the classroom and community while empowering student-athletes to be impactful and positive leaders.

$202k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$186k

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 15 grants below total $123,940, the rows itemized in this filing. The $202,178 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $78,238 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 $10k12 grants · $82k
$10k–50k3 grants · $42k

$7,400

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
US Council for Athletes' Health	$15,450
Double L Consulting	$15,364
Logo Pro LLC	$11,291
Wayne State University	$9,684
Fresh Ideas	$9,049
I&S Group Inc	$9,000
University of Minnesota Duluth	$8,811
COC Men's Basketball	$7,400
Minnesota State University Moorhead	$6,111
Bemidji State University	$5,447
Minot State University	$5,311
University of Mary	$5,311
Northern State University	$5,311
Minnesota State University Mankato	$5,311
Southwest Minnesota State University	$5,089

02The need

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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$70k · 3 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$70k

$25k

Still filing today

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

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.

Backed again, and grew

UC
US Council for Athletes' Health
2× · 2024–2025 · $31k
LP
Logo Pro LLC
2× · 2024–2025 · $23k
FD
FOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE
2× · 2024–2025 · $16k

Funded once

DP
Doug Peters Enterprises
one grant, 2024 · $17k
VL
Valued LLC
one grant, 2024 · $9k

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

04the grantee network

6 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. 6 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

6/6

Grantees still filing

0/6

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$164,803Education$21,158

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

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.

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.

Sanford Group ReturnSD13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sanford Group Return · Tulsa Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. Bigger dots raise more.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

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.

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