Colorado · Nonprofit
NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC
NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION LTD ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $4k
What National Intercollegiate Rugby Association Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Association shall be to encourage the introduction teaching promotion and understanding of the sport of women's rugby and undertake other activities incidental or conducive to the furtherance of these objects. The overarching goal of the Association is to help support the growth of women's rugby nationally to attain NCAA Championship status. NIRA brings together institutions of higher education that compete at the highest levels of intercollegiate women's rugby in the United States. The Association seeks to organize manage and promote the sport of intercollegiate women's rugby and to annually hold a postseason intercollegiate women's rugby championships called the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association NIRA Divisional Championships.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The NIRA Divisional Championships are conducted annually in November; a pathway available to all 28 member programs and their 875 student athletes.Six teams ultimately advance to the Divisional Championships annually.
$19,503 spent22% of program spendingThe NIRA provides the highest level of referee services through its partnership with Advantage Referees to ensure all games are afforded the best possible officiating available in the U.S.
$44,325 spent51% of program spendingThe NIRA conducts ongoing outreach and advocacy to grow the number of NCAA varsity programs to achieve the "overarching goal of the Association is to help support the growth of women's rugby nationally to attain NCAA Championship status." This is done year round and culminates at the NCAA Annual Convention.
$13,644 spent16% of program spendingThe NIRA conducts ongoing outreach and advocacy to grow the number of NCAA varsity programsto achieve the "overarching goal of the Association is to help support the growth of women's rugby nationally to attain NCAA Championship status." This is done year round and culminates at the NCAA Annual Convention.
$10,030 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,502.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $10k to $4k (−57%).
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.
55% of NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION 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.
How concentrated its funding is
NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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 NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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
58% of NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,891 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC
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In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC?
- NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION LTD ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,000 in grants to NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC?
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION LTD is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RUGBY ASSOCIATION INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 2 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