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

Start with the funders already giving to recreation and sports in Texas, currently National Collegiate Athletic Association, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc, Kinder Foundation. Then look at who funds the recreation and sports organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.

Who is the largest recreation and sports funder in Texas?

National Collegiate Athletic Association gives the most to recreation and sports organizations in Texas, $311M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to recreation and sports in Texas?

$1.5B reached 2,191 recreation and sports organizations in Texas, from 2,762 funders. 57% came from funders also based in Texas.

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 · Texas · Recreation and sports

Who funds recreation and sports in Texas

Recreation and sports funding in Texas is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though The Big 12 Conference Inc leads, and the money reaches 2,191 groups. Funders are thin on the ground: 2,191 recreation and sports organizations share only 2,762 funders between them.

$1.5B

granted

2,191

organizations

57%

from in-state

The short version

2,762 funders gave $1.5B to 2,191 recreation and sports organizations in Texas across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
57% of that came from funders also based in Texas; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of recreation and sports in Texas is National Collegiate Athletic Association, at $311M.
The recreation and sports organization drawing the most is The Big 12 Conference Inc, at $156M.

Largest funders of recreation and sports in Texas

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

1National Collegiate Athletic Association$311M 2Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc$98M 3Kinder Foundation$65M 4American Athletic Conference$63M 5Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$58M 6The Brown Foundation Inc$44M 7San Antonio Bowl Association$39M 8Sugar Bowl$32M 9United States Tennis Association Incorporated$31M 10Communities Foundation of Texas Inc$30M

Recreation and sports organizations in Texas that draw the most

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

2,181 other recreation and sports organizations$801M

The Big 12 Conference Inc$156M Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund$98M Southland Conference$85M Conference USA$75M Memorial Park Conservancy Inc$75M Southern Methodist University$54M Pga Foundation Inc$40M

How to find recreation and sports funders in Texas

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Start with the funders already active in Texas
The funders giving the most to recreation and sports in Texas are National Collegiate Athletic Association, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc, Kinder Foundation. 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
43% of recreation and sports money in Texas comes from funders elsewhere, so national recreation and sports funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Texas.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a recreation and sports nonprofit in Texas?: Start with the funders already giving to recreation and sports in Texas, currently National Collegiate Athletic Association, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc, Kinder Foundation. Then look at who funds the recreation and sports organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.
Who is the largest recreation and sports funder in Texas?: National Collegiate Athletic Association gives the most to recreation and sports organizations in Texas, $311M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to recreation and sports in Texas?: $1.5B reached 2,191 recreation and sports organizations in Texas, from 2,762 funders. 57% came from funders also based in Texas.
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.