Texas · Nonprofit
SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE
SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $84,547,449 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($84,547,449). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $85M
- Net assets
- $-843415
What Southland Conference does
Mission
To control and regulate intercollegiate athletics as insitutional activities, to encourage sound academic practices and establish harmonious relationships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The member institutions benefited by the Southland Conference's organization and supervision of their institutions' intercollegiate sports. The conference also endeavored to:(1) establish standards and promote scholarship and high ideas of sportsmanship and equity in the member institutions.(2) formulate principles to guide the conduct of athletic programs of the highest quality and character consistent with the missions of the member institutions in the conference, and(3) to promote and coordinate programs of academic cooperation and build on the alliance fostered by the conference's athletic programs to advance the academic missions of the member institutions.
$1,154,194 spentof which $10,050 as grants$4,086,755 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,154,194.
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 2019 to 2020, from $14M to $8.0M (−41%).
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 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE’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. 5 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.
Board chair
Dr Wade Rousse
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10M → $11M.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHLAND 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
SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
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
SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE 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 SOUTHLAND 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
32% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 SOUTHLAND 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 SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE?
- SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $84,547,449 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($84,547,449). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $84,547,449 in grants to SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE?
- National Collegiate Athletic Association is the largest funder on record, with $84,547,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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