· Public charity
The Missouri Valley Conference
Provide intercollegiate athletics a proper role in education, to organize, control and supervise intercollegiate athletics among the institutions of the conference and to establish standards and promote scholarship and sportsmanship among the conference members.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $572k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $321,622 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $250,488 |
| MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $223,992 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $222,261 |
| INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $192,473 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $178,083 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO | $122,277 |
| VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY | $113,296 |
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY | $111,790 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $99,931 |
| BRADLEY UNIVERSITY | $68,516 |
| UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE | $66,635 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 1 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.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ISILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +24%
- MSMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +97%
- SISOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +105% · 72% of their budget
Funded once
- WSWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOC INCone grant, 2017 · $83k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Southern Illinois University Alumni Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Indiana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Missouri Valley Conference funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.