Colorado · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE
MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being USTA PLAYER DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $166M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $51M
What Mountain West Conference does
Mission
To provide administrative support for the thirteen member institutions to strengthen and expand the intercollegiate athletic and academic programs on each campus.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Facilitate activities associated with intercollegiate athletic conferences. The mountain west provides a first-class athletic and academic experience for more than 5,100 student-athletes each year. Over the past 18 years, 42 mountain west student-athletes have earned ncaa postgraduate scholarships, and since the league's inception in 1999, an additional 36 student-athletes have been named mw scholar-athlete of the year and awarded league-sponsored postgraduate scholarships. Four mountain west student-athletes have earned distinction as rhodes scholars (jessica mellinger, wyoming and delavane diaz, brittany morreale and rebecca esselstein, air force).
$115,883,213 spentof which $103,380,648 as grants$150,060,509 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $115,883,213.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $9.2M to $51M (+449%).
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.
9% of MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (5% 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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $90M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Collegiate Athletic Association). These are real filings, and they are not money MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE raised.
From the IRS filings of MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE’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
MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12 recreation & sports nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- Boise State University · exempt
- California State University Fresno · exempt
- Colorado College · exempt
- Colorado State University · exempt
- San Diego State University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE?
- MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being USTA PLAYER DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE?
- USTA PLAYER DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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