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Southeastern Conference

To promote and administer intercollegiate athletic competition among its sixteen member non-profit institutions of higher education located in the southeastern united states and assist member institutions in the maintenance of programs of intercollegiate athletics which are compatible with the highest standards of education and…

$8.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Itemized grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$7.8M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$540,094
Largest grant, FY2025
$556,147
Organizations funded a year
14 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$351M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Southeastern Conference funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Science & TechOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$7.8M0%
FY202416$8.1M13%
FY202314$8.1M0%
FY202214$8.1M0%
FY202114$7.8M0%
FY202014$6.1M0%
FY201914$7.8M0%
FY201815$8.1M7%
100% 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$67MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.7MHealth$100k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MO
KY
AR
TN
SC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University Athletic Association Inc$5,075,31790%
Auburn University$5,062,6039n/a
Mississippi State University$5,017,3389n/a
Louisiana State University$4,999,1229n/a
Texas A&M University$4,982,4189n/a
Board of the University of Alabama$4,977,0379n/a
USC School of Medicine Greenville$4,940,9839n/a
University of Georgia Athletic Assn Inc$4,933,01390%
The University of Tennessee$4,918,6519n/a
University of Mississippi$4,901,3349n/a
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All grantees of Southeastern Conference by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University Athletic Association Inc$5,075,31790%
Auburn University$5,062,6039n/a
Mississippi State University$5,017,3389n/a
Louisiana State University$4,999,1229n/a
Texas A&M University$4,982,4189n/a
Board of the University of Alabama$4,977,0379n/a
USC School of Medicine Greenville$4,940,9839n/a
University of Georgia Athletic Assn Inc$4,933,01390%
The University of Tennessee$4,918,6519n/a
University of Mississippi$4,901,3349n/a
University of Kentucky Athletics$4,881,7069n/a
University of Arkansas Fayetteville$4,848,4169n/a
Curators of the University of Missouri$4,816,1959n/a
Vanderbilt University$4,768,17190%
Unversity of Oklahoma$145,4862n/a
University of Texas$145,4862n/a
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation$100,00010%
Lsu Foundation$100,00010%
The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research$100,000118%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Southeastern Conference

How much does Southeastern Conference give?
Southeastern Conference reported 16 itemized grants totaling $7,829,591, out of $8,595,474 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Southeastern Conference fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (96%), Public Safety & Disaster (4%), Health (0%).
Who are Southeastern Conference's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University Athletic Association Inc ($5.1M), Auburn University ($5.1M), Mississippi State University ($5.0M).
Does Southeastern Conference fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Southeastern Conference?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Where is Southeastern Conference based?
Southeastern Conference is based in AL.

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 19 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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