Grants for sports competitions

Name: Top 25 grants made to sports competitions
Creator: Cause IQ
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421 sports competitions received at least $30.5 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 1,285 grants made from 957 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 957 foundations, 91% made just a single grant to sports competitions, and 2% made grants to four or more sports competitions. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$30,458,993

Total grant dollars given to sports competitions

1,285

Number of grants made annually to sports competitions

957

Number of grantmakers funding sports competitions

$1,000

Median grant size to sports competitions

Foundations that support sports competitions

Out of all grants made to sports competitions, 80% 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 sports competitions. Foundations funding sports competitions also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, scholarship organizations, food banks, educational service providers, and animal shelters.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	774
Medium	97
Large	85

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	25
Private	791
Corporate	74
Other	67

Grants made

Grants made to sports competitions	Number of grantmakers
1	873
2-3	63
4-10	9
11+	12

Top 10 foundations supporting sports competitions

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to sports competitions	Number of grants made to sports competitions	Median grant size
Carmax Foundation	VA	National	0.3%	30	$500
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	29	$500
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines	IA	State	0.1%	28	$1,000
Baxter	IL	National	0.0%	26	$40
Synchrony Foundation	CT	National	0.1%	22	$100
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.0%	20	$50
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	17	$152
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.1%	12	$384
Salesforce Com Foundation	CA	National	0.0%	12	$50
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.0%	11	$100

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Sports competitions grantees

Sports competitions with more than $5 million in total revenues received 97% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 60% of all sports competitions.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	1,280
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	5

Grant amount by grantee size

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

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
District of Columbia	191
California	105
Illinois	69
New York	61
Other	859

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Washington DC	193
Philadelphia	45
San Diego	42
Austin	39
Other	848

Top 25 grants made to sports competitions

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Us Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOC)	$10,162,464	General Support	United States Olympic Endowment
Missouri Valley Conference (MVC)	$5,640,490	Scholarships/grants	National Collegiate Athletic Association
Colonial Athletic Association	$4,876,610	Scholarships/grants	National Collegiate Athletic Association
America East Conference	$4,561,187	Scholarships/grants	National Collegiate Athletic Association
Crim Fitness Foundation	$3,300,000	To Support the Expansion of A 21st Century Community Schools Model in Flint Community Schools and Other Flint Area Schools.	Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Free To Run	$5,000	She Can Tri Program	All the Little Ones Foundation
Adaptive Sports Program of Ohio	$5,000	General	Charles Loehr Charitable Trust
Special Olympics Virginia	$5,000	General Support	Commonwealth Foundations
USA Wrestling	$5,000	To Support Events Held in Wisconsin Dells	Wisconsin Dells Visitor & Convention Bureau (WDVCB)
Special Olympics	$5,000	General Support	The Permanente Foundation
Special Olympics Iowa	$5,000	Central Iowa Athlete Events and Programs	Prairie Meadows Race Track & Casino
Grosse Pointe Youth Nautical Education Foundation	$5,000	Education	DTE Energy Foundation
Special Olympics Michigan (SOMI)	$5,000	Human Needs	DTE Energy Foundation
Special Olympics Florida	$5,000	Program Support	The Miami Foundation
Special Olympics Michigan (SOMI)	$5,000	General Support	The Thompson Family Foundation / Thompson Richard K Ttee
Us Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOC)	$5,000	Unrestricted	Paul D and Joyce B Rheingold Family Foundation
Special Olympics Hawaii	$5,000	General Support	The Kosasa Foundation
Special Olympics Montana	$5,000	To Fund Olympic(s)tournaments for the Disabled.	Herb Waltermire Comm Enhancement FNDT
Special Olympics Virginia	$5,000	Programming in Local Schools	Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia
Special Olympics Utah	$5,000	Humanitarian	The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation
Special Olympics Michigan (SOMI)	$5,000	Kalamazoo Participants - Special Olympics at Wmu	Dorothy U Dalton Foundation
Special Olympics Idaho	$5,000	General Program Support	T-Mobile USA Foundation
Special Olympics Southern California	$5,000	General Program Support	T-Mobile USA Foundation
Special Olympics New Mexico	$5,000	General Program Support	T-Mobile USA Foundation
Special Olympics Southern California	$5,000	General Program Support	T-Mobile USA Foundation

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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 "Sports competitions" category for this page is determined by the "N70: Amateur Sports Competitions" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.