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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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$178,083
Largest grant, FY2025
$321,622
Organizations funded a year
10 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Missouri Valley Conference funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $458k 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
EducationOther
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 arriving12$2.0M0%
FY202412$2.1M25%
FY202310$1.7M0%
FY202210$1.7M0%
FY202110$516k0%
FY202010$1.7M0%
FY201910$1.6M0%
FY201810$1.6M10%
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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$14M

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
Illinois State University Foundation$2,647,49692%
Missouri State University Foundation$2,264,34091%
Southern Illinois University Alumni Association$1,988,403972%
Indiana State University Foundation Inc$1,608,67092%
University of Northern Iowa Foundation$1,576,48391%
The Lutheran University Association Inc$999,93480%
Drake University$851,60090%
University of Evansville$629,52490%
Bradley University$493,02490%
Murray State University$435,4642n/a
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All grantees of The Missouri Valley Conference by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Illinois State University Foundation$2,647,49692%
Missouri State University Foundation$2,264,34091%
Southern Illinois University Alumni Association$1,988,403972%
Indiana State University Foundation Inc$1,608,67092%
University of Northern Iowa Foundation$1,576,48391%
The Lutheran University Association Inc$999,93480%
Drake University$851,60090%
University of Evansville$629,52490%
Bradley University$493,02490%
Murray State University$435,4642n/a
Loyola University of Chicago$346,01770%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$266,1362n/a
Belmont University$200,63720%
Wichita State University Intercollegiate Athletic Assoc Inc$83,2061n/a

Where it is load-bearing

The Missouri Valley Conference supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIllinois State University Foundation: $2,647,496 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetMissouri State University Foundation: $2,264,340 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetSouthern Illinois University Alumni Association: $1,988,403 over 9y, 72% of budgetIndiana State University Foundation Inc: $1,608,670 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetUniversity of Northern Iowa Foundation: $1,576,483 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetThe Lutheran University Association Inc: $999,934 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDrake University: $851,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Evansville: $629,524 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBradley University: $493,024 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola University of Chicago: $346,017 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $200,637 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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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 11.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 The Missouri Valley Conference

How much does The Missouri Valley Conference give?
The Missouri Valley Conference reported 12 grants totaling $1,991,364 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Missouri Valley Conference fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (100%).
Who are The Missouri Valley Conference's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Illinois State University Foundation ($2.6M), Missouri State University Foundation ($2.3M), Southern Illinois University Alumni Association ($2.0M).
Does The Missouri Valley Conference fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Missouri Valley Conference?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Missouri Valley Conference based?
The Missouri Valley Conference is based in MO.

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 14 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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