How much does Sugar Bowl give?

Sugar Bowl reported 9 grants totaling $12,618,380 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Sugar Bowl fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (96%), Education (2%), Philanthropy (1%).

Who are Sugar Bowl's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southeastern Conference ($32M), The Big 12 Conference Inc ($32M), New Orleans College Football Championship Host Committee Inc ($5.6M).

Does Sugar Bowl fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Sugar Bowl?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.

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Louisiana · Public charity

Sugar Bowl

Established to seek out, promote, finance, sponsor, schedule, conduct, and operate an annual calendar of local, state, national and international amateur and collegiate sporting events in the greater new orleans area and the state of louisiana, for the [cont'd on sch o] purpose of generating tourism via amateur athletics.

$13M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Grants FY2025: 7
Organizations funded FY2024: 14%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $5,750,000
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 23; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $89M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Sugar Bowl funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	8	$12M	0%
FY2024	7	$316k	14%
FY2023	11	$22M	27%
FY2022	11	$12M	18%
FY2021	6	$631k	0%
FY2020	23	$18M	26%
FY2019	19	$12M	21%
FY2018	15	$1.2M	7%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$85MEducation$1.5MPhilanthropy$713kPublic Safety & Disaster$625kFood & Nutrition$300kHousing & Shelter$125kHuman Services$20kArts & Culture$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Southeastern Conference	$32,250,000	6	1%
The Big 12 Conference Inc	$32,250,000	6	1%
New Orleans College Football Championship Host Committee Inc	$5,593,895	1	61%
Louisiana State University	$5,100,000	1	n/a
Florida State University	$5,100,000	1	n/a
Crescent City Fitness Foundation Inc	$1,650,000	5	21%
Louisiana High School Athletic Association	$1,615,000	4	16%
Brees Dream Foundation	$600,000	6	10%
College Football Playoff Foundation Inc	$503,980	5	n/a
New Schools for New Orleans Inc	$472,000	5	2%

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All grantees of Sugar Bowl by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Southeastern Conference	$32,250,000	6	1%
The Big 12 Conference Inc	$32,250,000	6	1%
New Orleans College Football Championship Host Committee Inc	$5,593,895	1	61%
Louisiana State University	$5,100,000	1	n/a
Florida State University	$5,100,000	1	n/a
Crescent City Fitness Foundation Inc	$1,650,000	5	21%
Louisiana High School Athletic Association	$1,615,000	4	16%
Brees Dream Foundation	$600,000	6	10%
College Football Playoff Foundation Inc	$503,980	5	n/a
New Schools for New Orleans Inc	$472,000	5	2%
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana	$425,000	2	0%
Teach for America Inc	$377,500	6	0%
The Kelly Gibson Foundation	$365,000	9	11%
New Orleans Recreation Development Foundation	$300,000	2	25%
The Shack Harris and Doug Williams Foundation	$213,000	4	n/a
Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans	$202,900	9	1%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	$200,000	4	0%
Louisiana Soccer Association	$172,000	8	2%
New Orleans Habitat for Humanity	$125,000	1	1%
City Park Improvement Association	$110,000	4	n/a
Science of Sport	$100,000	2	6%
United Way of Southeast Louisiana	$100,000	1	1%
University of New Orleans	$82,000	4	n/a
Loyola University	$40,000	4	0%
Friends of New Orleans Lacrosse	$40,000	2	n/a
Dillard University	$25,000	4	0%
New Orleans Women's Final Four Loc	$24,557	1	n/a
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans	$20,000	4	0%
Women Leaders in Sports	$15,000	1	0%
Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation In	$10,000	1	n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$10,000	1	0%
University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Crescent City Countdown Club Inc Dba Nola New Years Eve	$5,000	1	n/a

Sugar Bowl supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Sugar Bowl

How much does Sugar Bowl give?: Sugar Bowl reported 9 grants totaling $12,618,380 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Sugar Bowl fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (96%), Education (2%), Philanthropy (1%).
Who are Sugar Bowl's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southeastern Conference ($32M), The Big 12 Conference Inc ($32M), New Orleans College Football Championship Host Committee Inc ($5.6M).
Does Sugar Bowl fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sugar Bowl?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Sugar Bowl based?: Sugar Bowl is based in LA.