Grants for hockey, skate, and ski clubs

Name: Top 25 grants made to hockey, skate, and ski leagues and clubs
Creator: Cause IQ
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368 hockey, skate, and ski leagues and clubs received at least $8.5 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 269 grants made from 208 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 208 foundations, 87% made just a single grant to winter sports clubs, and 2% made grants to four or more winter sports clubs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$8,510,545

Total grant dollars given to hockey, skate, and ski clubs

269

Number of grants made annually to hockey, skate, and ski clubs

208

Number of grantmakers funding hockey, skate, and ski clubs

$1,000

Median grant size to hockey, skate, and ski clubs

Foundations that support hockey, skate, and ski leagues and clubs

Out of all grants made to hockey, skate, and ski clubs, 76% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 94% of the dollar-value of grants to winter sports clubs. Foundations funding winter sports clubs also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, animal shelters, universities, food distribution programs, and boys and girls clubs.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	160
Medium	21
Large	27

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	5
Private	160
Corporate	17
Other	26

Grants made

Grants made to winter sports clubs	Number of grantmakers
1	183
2-3	19
4-10	5
11+	1

Top 10 foundations supporting hockey, skate, and ski leagues and clubs

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to winter sports clubs	Number of grants made to winter sports clubs	Median grant size
Twin City Figure Skating Association	MN	Metro	45.9%	14	$500
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.2%	10	$500
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	7	$100
Alliant Energy Foundation	WI	State	0.1%	6	$400
The Graco Foundation	MN	Metro	0.1%	5	$1,000
Michigan Amateur Hockey Association (MAHA)	MI	State	65.0%	4	$928
Advent Angels In My Hair	MN	Metro	2.7%	3	$618
Salesforce Com Foundation	CA	National	0.0%	3	$100
USA Hockey Foundation	CO	National	87.5%	2	$4,002,500
Rasmuson Foundation	AK	State	0.0%	2	$5,000

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Hockey, skate, and ski leagues and clubs grantees

Hockey, skate, and ski clubs with more than $5 million in total revenues received 94% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 8% of all winter sports clubs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	268
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	1

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$928
$100k-$500k	$1,000
$500k-$1M	$1,000
$1M-$5M	$1,500
>$5M	$2,500

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
Colorado	36
New York	32
Minnesota	32
Wisconsin	28
Other	141

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Minneapolis	27
New York City	21
Chicago	17
Madison	9
Other	105

Top 25 grants made to hockey, skate, and ski clubs

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
USA Hockey	$8,000,000	NHL Grant	USA Hockey Foundation
Prior Lake Water Ski Association	$5,000	General Operating	Kotula Family Foundation
Minot Hockey Boosters	$5,000	General Support	InFaith Community Foundation (ICF)
Big Sky Ski Education Foundation	$5,000	Unrestricted General	Davis Family Charitable Trust
Ohio Youth Hockey Association	$5,000	Urban Affairs	The Columbus Foundation
Ford K Sayre Memorial Ski Council	$5,000	General Support	The Couch Family Foundation
Sylvania Youth Hockey	$5,000	Charitable Donation	Promedica Health System
American Special Hockey Association	$5,000	Grant Is To Start New Program Development in Syracuse and Elmira $5,000. To Support the Southern Tier Special Hockey Festival. $7,500 With 16 Special Hockey Teams Attending.	Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation
Special Hockey Washington Incorporated	$5,000	General Use	Dart Group Ii Foundation
Peconic Hockey Foundation	$5,000	General	L A W Foundation
Aquanut Water Shows	$5,000	General Support	Hunter Family Foundation
Jackson Youth Hockey	$5,000	General Use	The Robert and Colleen Grady Foundation
Teton Adaptive Sports	$5,000	Adaptive Summer Sports Programming Expenses	Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA)
Chicago Jets Hockey Club	$5,000	General Purposes	Christopher L & M Susan Gust Foundation
Nantucket Youth Hockey	$5,000	Support	Nantucket Golf Club Foundation
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation	$5,000	General Support	Sam and Peggy Grossman Family Foundation
Triboro Youth Hockey Association	$5,000	Award - Growth Award	Massachusetts Hockey
Alaska State Hockey Association (ASHA)	$5,000	Team Alaska 18u Tier 1	Rasmuson Foundation
Alaska State Hockey Association (ASHA)	$5,000	14u Tier 1	Rasmuson Foundation
Gunstock Nordic Association	$5,000	Unrestricted	The Daniell Family Foundation
Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena	$5,000	To Help Support the Community	The Masonic and Eastern Star Home Charities
Girdwood Nordic Ski Club	$5,000	Charitable Contribution	The Wilson Family Foundation
Alyeska Ski Club	$5,000	Charitable Contribution	The Wilson Family Foundation
Rebel Hockey Club	$5,000	General Purpose	The Zarley Family Foundation
Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena	$5,000	General Operating Support	Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Hockey, skate, and ski clubs" category for this page is determined by the "N68: Winter Sports" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.