Indiana · Nonprofit
GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC
GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,196,131 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($4,190,131). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,580 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,580 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Second Helpings Inclocal
- The Woods Foundationportfolio match
- Michigan Gateway Community Foundationportfolio 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: 2022 5% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 $439k → $497k.
From the IRS filings of GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Second Helpings InclocalIN · funds 135 organizations near you
- The Woods Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Gateway Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Casper Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lending Help For Students Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Advent Angels In My Hair Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ann O'Donnell Trumbull Perpetual Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Springs Sports Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dean J King Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Give Something Back A NJ Nonprofit Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Collinson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Indianapolis InclocalIN · funds 113 organizations near you
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 GREAT LAKES VALLEY 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT LAKES VALLEY 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 GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC?
- GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,196,131 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($4,190,131). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,196,131 in grants to GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE INC?
- National Collegiate Athletic Association is the largest funder on record, with $4,190,131 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE 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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing