· Public charity
Ohio Valley Conference Inc
Provide opportunity for athletics competition.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $236,468 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARD | $236,468 |
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $196,468 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MARTIN | $196,468 |
| EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $196,468 |
| MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY | $196,468 |
| SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $196,468 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA | $58,400 |
| WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $58,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE RO | $58,400 |
| LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY | $58,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMSOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M
- TTTennessee Technological University9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M
Funded once
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.
2 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. 2 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Writing Project Corporation · American Chemical Society · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Midway USA Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ohio Valley Conference Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohio Valley Conference Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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