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INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION

INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION (Indiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,352,648 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($15,074,330). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$36M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
$31M
15/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Indiana Sports Corporation does

Mission

To perform charitable, educational and similar exempt purposes by fostering amateur sports competitions in central indiana. See schedule o.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. U.s. Olympic team trials - swimming

    $20,156,532 spent$14,160,621 earned by the program
    75% of program spending
  2. Indy classic - college men's basketball tournament

    $2,487,287 spent$1,618,536 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  3. Big ten football chamipionship game

    $1,824,874 spent$867,531 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $2,372,841 spentof which $613,873 as grants$2,674,041 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,841,534.

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 ($6.0M) Expenses 100 ($6.7M) Net assets 100 ($9.7M)2018 Revenue 124 ($7.4M) Expenses 90 ($6.0M) Net assets 109 ($11M)2019 Revenue 114 ($6.8M) Expenses 102 ($6.9M) Net assets 117 ($11M)2020 Revenue 103 ($6.1M) Expenses 93 ($6.3M) Net assets 126 ($12M)2021 Revenue 148 ($8.9M) Expenses 134 ($9.0M) Net assets 132 ($13M)2022 Revenue 180 ($11M) Expenses 157 ($11M) Net assets 117 ($11M)2023 Revenue 380 ($23M) Expenses 141 ($9.5M) Net assets 255 ($25M)2024 Revenue 604 ($36M) Expenses 451 ($30M) Net assets 321 ($31M)
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Revenue (604)Expenses (451)Net assets (321)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 2022 to 2023, from $18M to $37M (+103%).

$12M
$15M
$16M
$17M
$18M
$18M
$37M
$40M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 17% · 2021 26% · 2022 25% · 2023 32% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

43% of INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (10% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 330 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$736k
’17
$1.4M
’18
−$52k
’19
−$110k
’20
−$161k
’21
$179k
’22
$13M
’23
$5.8M
’24
1.8
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.

Board chair

Julie Roe Lach

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed5659575758676359
Joined·+9+3+1+9+12+5+0
No longer listed·6518394
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $538k → $9.7M.

5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.1M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Indy Championships Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION raised.

From the IRS filings of INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION’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

INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

92%
largest funder
95%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 81% · 2019 68% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 80% · 2023 98% — 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.

How long its funders stay

22% of INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

99% of INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

NY
IN
MO

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

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’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $370k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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

INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 303 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 303 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION

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.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

52
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

75%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Indy Championships Legacy · exempt
  • Sports Marketing of Indiana · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION?
INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION (Indiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,352,648 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($15,074,330). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $16,352,648 in grants to INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,074,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INDIANA SPORTS CORPORATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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