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TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION

TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,529,799 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Acadiana ($1,156,300). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$124M
Funders on record
68
Grants received
$9.5M
Net assets
$322M
42/68 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Tiger Athletic Foundation does

Mission

To support louisiana state university and its athletic programs

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Tiger Athletic Foundation (taf) assists the louisiana state university and agricultural and mechanical college (lsu) athletic programs. Taf helped to defray the cost of more than 450 student athletes, to maintain and improve athletic facilities, and to retire present indebtedness.

    $87,808,591 spentof which $83,791,873 as grants$45,224 earned by the program
    85% of program spending
  2. Tiger Athletic Foundation oversees the management of the tiger den suites, stadium club, and alex box suites for louisiana state university and agricultural and mechanical college.

    $14,129,891 spent$4,889,714 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  3. Tiger athleic foundation (taf) supports louisiana state university agricultural and mechanical college (lsu).

    $780,320 spentof which $354,308 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $102,718,802.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($63M) Expenses 100 ($37M) Net assets 100 ($244M)2018 Revenue 119 ($75M) Expenses 124 ($46M) Net assets 111 ($270M)2019 Revenue 104 ($65M) Expenses 225 ($83M) Net assets 106 ($258M)2020 Revenue 59 ($37M) Expenses 96 ($35M) Net assets 109 ($267M)2021 Revenue 108 ($68M) Expenses 170 ($63M) Net assets 111 ($271M)2022 Revenue 130 ($82M) Expenses 145 ($53M) Net assets 112 ($274M)2023 Revenue 138 ($87M) Expenses 163 ($60M) Net assets 127 ($311M)2024 Revenue 197 ($124M) Expenses 315 ($116M) Net assets 132 ($322M)
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Revenue (197)Expenses (315)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $480M to $500M (+4%).

$499M
$484M
$484M
$481M
$492M
$480M
$500M
$497M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

86% of TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 732 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$26M
’17
$29M
’18
−$18M
’19
$2.0M
’20
$5.1M
’21
$28M
’22
$27M
’23
$7.7M
’24
5.2
months of
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

Roy O Martin

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed4544464742454846
Joined·+1+15+1+2+6+12+1
No longer listed·21307393
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $572k → $1.2M.

25 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. 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

TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

72% 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 TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION.

12%
largest funder
30%
top three
~18
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 36% · 2019 41% · 2020 40% · 2021 33% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% — 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

46% of TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

61% of TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.7M that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Louisiana funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 696 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve5.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 696 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Organizations like TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION

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 Louisiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 8%Fundraising 3%

Governance

36
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Tiger Affiliated Chapters · exempt
  • Taf Services Corporation · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION?
TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,529,799 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Acadiana ($1,156,300). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $9,529,799 in grants to TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION?
Community Foundation of Acadiana is the largest funder on record, with $1,156,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 68 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing