How do I find funders for a recreation and sports nonprofit in New York?

Start with the funders already giving to recreation and sports in New York, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, United States Tennis Association Incorporated, Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc. Then look at who funds the recreation and sports organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New York from out of state.

Who is the largest recreation and sports funder in New York?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to recreation and sports organizations in New York, $90M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to recreation and sports in New York?

$1.5B reached 2,192 recreation and sports organizations in New York, from 5,575 funders. 58% came from funders also based in New York.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · New York · Recreation and sports

Who funds recreation and sports in New York

$1.5B reached 2,192 recreation and sports organizations in New York, from 5,575 funders, with no single one dominating.

$1.5B

granted

2,192

organizations

58%

from in-state

The short version

5,575 funders gave $1.5B to 2,192 recreation and sports organizations in New York across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
58% of that came from funders also based in New York; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of recreation and sports in New York is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $90M.
The recreation and sports organization drawing the most is Central Park Conservancy Inc, at $365M.

Largest funders of recreation and sports in New York

The funders giving the most to recreation and sports organizations in New York, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$90M 2United States Tennis Association Incorporated$84M 3Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc$80M 4Jewish Communal Fund$73M 5Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy$56M 6National Collegiate Athletic Association$53M 7Druckenmiller Foundation$50M 8Big East Conference Inc$39M 9Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$31M 10The Thompson Family Foundation Inc$31M

Recreation and sports organizations in New York that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

2,182 other recreation and sports organizations$754M

Central Park Conservancy Inc$365M

How to find recreation and sports funders in New York

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Start with the funders already active in New York
The funders giving the most to recreation and sports in New York are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, United States Tennis Association Incorporated, Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc. A funder already writing recreation and sports checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the recreation and sports organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
42% of recreation and sports money in New York comes from funders elsewhere, so national recreation and sports funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New York.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a recreation and sports nonprofit in New York?: Start with the funders already giving to recreation and sports in New York, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, United States Tennis Association Incorporated, Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc. Then look at who funds the recreation and sports organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New York from out of state.
Who is the largest recreation and sports funder in New York?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to recreation and sports organizations in New York, $90M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to recreation and sports in New York?: $1.5B reached 2,192 recreation and sports organizations in New York, from 5,575 funders. 58% came from funders also based in New York.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.