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FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,521 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($199,214). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.8M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$312k
Net assets
$12M
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Fort Hays State Athletic Association does

Mission

To promote and encourage the physical education, development and well being of the students in harmony with the general education policy of fort hays state university

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Manage intercollegiate football program for fort hays state university; 11 regular season games played

    $2,391,668 spentof which $157,970 as grants$3,701,612 earned by the program
    31% of program spending
  2. Manage intercollegiate men's and women's basketball programs for fort hays state university; men played 29 games, women played 34 games

    $1,307,980 spentof which $245,865 as grants$1,942,154 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  3. Manage intercollegiate volleyball program for fort hays state university; 30 regular season games played

    $527,643 spentof which $36,202 as grants$889,843 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  4. Manage intercollegiate baseball program for fort hays state university; 45 games played

    $560,808 spentof which $30,636 as grants$884,047 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  5. Provide and manage minor sports programs for fort hays state university; this includes softball, wrestling (men's and women's), golf (men's and women's), soccer (men's and women's), track (men's and women's), and tennis

    $2,502,671 spentof which $162,963 as grants$3,550,332 earned by the program
    33% of program spending
  6. Provide support services for program sports such as cheerleaders, sports information, training, medical injury insurance, transportation, etc.

    $333,614 spentof which $22,968 as grants
    4% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,624,384.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.6M) Net assets 100 ($5.8M)2018 Revenue 150 ($3.9M) Expenses 132 ($3.5M) Net assets 94 ($5.5M)2019 Revenue 134 ($3.5M) Expenses 133 ($3.5M) Net assets 106 ($6.2M)2020 Revenue 127 ($3.3M) Expenses 119 ($3.1M) Net assets 113 ($6.6M)2021 Revenue 79 ($2.0M) Expenses 79 ($2.1M) Net assets 154 ($9.0M)2022 Revenue 232 ($6.0M) Expenses 219 ($5.8M) Net assets 192 ($11M)2023 Revenue 232 ($6.0M) Expenses 230 ($6.1M) Net assets 213 ($12M)2024 Revenue 251 ($6.5M) Expenses 255 ($6.7M) Net assets 248 ($14M)2025 Revenue 340 ($8.8M) Expenses 312 ($8.3M) Net assets 207 ($12M)
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Revenue (340)Expenses (312)Net assets (207)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $7.3M to $9.9M (+35%).

$6.0M
$5.7M
$6.5M
$7.3M
$9.9M
$12M
$13M
$15M
$13M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

63% of FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$56k
’17
$385k
’18
−$46k
’19
$134k
’20
−$38k
’21
$230k
’22
−$65k
’23
−$236k
’24
$542k
’25
0.4
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.

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Listed443334333
Joined·+1+0+0+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·11000100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $22k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
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'25*
total
Miaa Mo Incunclassified
$79k
funders
3
3
2
2
2
3
2
2
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION’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.

How concentrated its funding is

FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

64%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 42% · 2019 85% · 2020 78% · 2021 75% · 2022 42% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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

FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 2 states in all.

IN
MO

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

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’23
Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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

Against its field

FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Fort Hays State University · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION?
FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,521 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($199,214). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $311,521 in grants to FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION?
National Collegiate Athletic Association is the largest funder on record, with $199,214 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORT HAYS STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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 3 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