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COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC

COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $851,000 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($851,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$851k
Net assets
$2.9M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What College Sports Communicators Inc does

Mission

The organization has two primary missions as it seeks to have its profession, organization and membership take a leadership role within the decision-making levels of the intercollegiate athletics community: 1) assist communications and creative content professionals at all collegiate levels with professional development and continuing education, helping its members deal in a strategic and effective manner with the various issues, challenges and opportunities that exist within the fast-paced and ever-changing collegiate communications environment. 2) play a significant leadership and resource role within the overall collegiate athletics enterprise, thus helping other management groups and their respective memberships deal with the set of communications-based issues that is the most complex and challenging in history.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The objectives of this organization include providing a collective voice for athletics communications and creative content professionals in promoting the image of their institutions and their profession both internally and externally; encouraging discussing of issues and exchange of ideas that impact and enhance the image of their institutions and the role of athletics communications and creative content professionals; providing helpful information to these professionals via an annual convention, webinars, e-blasts, etc; providing and encouraging an emphasis on diversity in the areas of gender, race and divisional representation; providing ideas and resources to enhance current and develop new recognition programs for collegiate student-athletes and athletic professionals; and aligning with other organizations whose missions are compatible with the organization.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($4.8M)2018 Revenue 130 ($1.6M) Expenses 117 ($1.6M) Net assets 92 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 69 ($877k) Expenses 75 ($1.0M) Net assets 96 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 105 ($1.3M) Expenses 82 ($1.1M) Net assets 102 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 107 ($1.4M) Expenses 134 ($1.8M) Net assets 76 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 131 ($1.8M) Net assets 69 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 182 ($2.3M) Expenses 128 ($1.7M) Net assets 67 ($3.2M)2025 Revenue 125 ($1.6M) Expenses 150 ($2.0M) Net assets 60 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (125)Expenses (150)Net assets (60)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.9M to $3.7M (−26%).

$4.8M
$4.4M
$4.6M
$4.9M
$3.7M
$3.3M
$3.2M
$2.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$75k
’17
$75k
’18
−$128k
’20
$238k
’21
−$452k
’22
−$497k
’23
$586k
’24
−$429k
’25
1.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Jason Yaman

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed24228816111111
Joined·+4·+1+9+1+3+3
No longer listed·6·11633
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $97k → $132k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS 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

100% of COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Indiana out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC?
COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $851,000 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($851,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $851,000 in grants to COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC?
National Collegiate Athletic Association is the largest funder on record, with $851,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 1 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing