Utah · Nonprofit
BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC
BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $47,944,493 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($47,944,493). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 138 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Northern Utahlocal
- Lending Help For Students Incportfolio match
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universitiesportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 13% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5.9M → $6.0M.
From the IRS filings of BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Northern UtahlocalUT · funds 28 organizations near you
- Lending Help For Students Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Major League Baseball Youth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Springs Sports Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Davis Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Advent Angels In My Hair Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orange Bowl Committee Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Investor Protection Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spencer Educational Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Tennis Association Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC?
- BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $47,944,493 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($47,944,493). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $47,944,493 in grants to BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC?
- National Collegiate Athletic Association is the largest funder on record, with $47,944,493 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG SKY CONFERENCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing