Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,481,542 to it, the largest being SUNSHINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,375,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What National Wrestling Coaches Association does
Mission
The nwca brings the wrestling coaching community together to advance the sport and ensure that current and future generations have the opportunity to engage in a safe and educationally based wrestling experience. This is primarily done by strengthening existing programs, creating new programs, and providing coaches with progressive educational opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We are committed to developing proficient coaches in the educational environment. Specifically, we are committed to enhancing the coaches' ceo skills and ensuring they operate their program in close alignment with educational values. Since 2010, the nwca had provided 800 full scholarships to deserving head/assistant college coaches to attend/complete our ceo leadership academy. This is our primary strategy to protect our existing college teams and at the same time, ensure that we have a strong pool of well-trained assistant coaches to lead/sustain all of the new programs being established. Further the high school/middle school version of the ceo leadsership academy was launched in the fall 2017. We are also committed to insuring that interscholastic and intercollegiate programs are operated in close alignment with educational values.
$986,894 spent$84,000 earned by the program43% of program spendingThe nwca hosts a series of premier events each that are intended to showcase amateur wrestling's hero's and champions to a broad audience. The nwca also makes it best efforts to nationally televise and/or webstream its events in an effort to communicate the incredible renaissance of college wrestling to the casual fan. These events include the multi divisional national duals which features upwards to 100 of the top college wrestling teams in every division other than division I. The teams compete for a national dual meet championship in their respective divisions. The pittsburgh classic features many of the top high school seniors from pennsylvania vs an all star team of high school seniors from across the nation. There is an undercard featuring a team of high school seniors from western pennsylvania vs a team of high school seniors from a specific state. Many of the participating high school seniors are among the top recruits in the nation. In some cases, the nwca works closely with college governing bodies such as the ncaa, naia, and junior college to provide support services for the respective national championships. In other instances, the nwca collaborates with other…
$542,058 spent$338,502 earned by the program24% of program spendingWrestlers in business network is an operating division on the nwca and is intended to help facilitate internships and career opportunities for high school and college student wrestlers. Further, there are wibn chapters forming across the nation that host regular networking events that generate revenue. The revenue that is generated from these activities is reinvested back into the local wrestling ecosystem at the discretion of the local wibn chapter board. Wrestlers in business network supports the association's wrestling programs and coaches through funding, mentorship opportunities between business leaders and coaches, and the availability of internships and career opportunities for the wrestlers.
$418,507 spent$87,799 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe nwca is a membership based organization that primarily serves the scholastic (middle school), high school, and college wrestling coach communities. The nwca currently has approximately 16,000 members that are comprised of wrestling coaches, parents, fans, donors, and business leaders across the nation. The nwca has programming that serves over 350,000 middle school, high school and college student-wrestlers annually. The nwca specializes in developing transformational high school and college coaches who provide an extraordinary wrestling experience to change lives of aspiring student-wrestlers. Through an nwca operating division, wrestlers in business network, we intentionally connect our student wrestlers with opportunities to pursue attend college, trades, military, or a job.
$333,944 spent$629,764 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,281,403.
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 $2.0M to $2.4M (+18%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION’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. 1 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $99k → $477k.
10 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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: $40k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Wrestling Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES 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
NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 46% · 2019 47% · 2020 70% · 2021 54% · 2022 63% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“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
63% of NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
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
NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $921k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,481,542 to it, the largest being SUNSHINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,375,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,481,542 in grants to NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION?
- SUNSHINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 20 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