Texas · Nonprofit
THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC
THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,864,394 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($237,481,614). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $611M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $283M
- Net assets
- $15M
What The Big 12 Conference Inc does
Mission
The mission of the conference is to: advance standards of scholarship, sportsmanship and equity with the highest ideals of conference membership; support the development of national-championship caliber intercollegiate athletic programs; organize, promote and administer intercollegiate athletics among its member institutions; optimize revenues and provide supporting services compatible with both academic and competitive excellence; and encourage collaboration in areas beyond athletics that builds good-will between institutions and promotes the overall missions of the universities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The conference collects revenue on behalf of the member schools from television agreements, bowl games, and championship events, as well as grants from the national collegiate athletic association (ncaa) and remits net revenues to the member school's athletic department.
$587,432,473 spentof which $557,065,984 as grants$608,084,281 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $587,432,473.
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 2020 to 2021, from $90M to $68M (−25%).
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.
0% of THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $30M → $43M.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $39M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest San Antonio Bowl Association). These are real filings, and they are not money THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE 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
THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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 THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 85% · 2020 74% · 2021 97% · 2022 82% · 2023 83% — 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
THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC has grown faster than half of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 16 related entities
- Baylor University · exempt
- Iowa State University · exempt
- University of Kansas · exempt
- Kansas State University · exempt
- Oklahoma State University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE 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 THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC?
- THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,864,394 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($237,481,614). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $282,864,394 in grants to THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC?
- National Collegiate Athletic Association is the largest funder on record, with $237,481,614 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE INC 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 6 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