Grants for football leagues

Name: Top 25 grants made to football clubs and leagues
Creator: Cause IQ
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200 football clubs and leagues received at least $258,433 in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 154 grants made from 93 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 93 foundations, 80% made just a single grant to football leagues, and 7% made grants to four or more football leagues. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$258,433

Total grant dollars given to football leagues

154

Number of grants made annually to football leagues

Number of grantmakers funding football leagues

$1,000

Median grant size to football leagues

Foundations that support football clubs and leagues

Out of all grants made to football leagues, 69% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 36% of the dollar-value of grants to football leagues. Foundations funding football leagues also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, food banks, animal shelters, youth development programs, and christian organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	65
Medium	15
Large	13

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	2
Private	60
Corporate	16
Other	15

Grants made

Grants made to football leagues	Number of grantmakers
1	75
2-3	11
4-10	5
11+	2

Top 10 foundations supporting football clubs and leagues

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to football leagues	Number of grants made to football leagues	Median grant size
Carmax Foundation	VA	National	0.2%	17	$700
Westrock Foundation	GA	National	0.0%	11	$10
NFL Foundation	NY	National	0.1%	9	$3,000
Sempra Energy Foundation	CA	State	0.3%	5	$1,000
The Graco Foundation	MN	Metro	0.1%	4	$1,000
Celanese Foundation	TX	National	0.1%	4	$235
The Prime Foundation	WA	Metro	0.7%	4	$375
Denver Broncos Charities	CO	Metro	0.9%	3	$2,500
Community Foundation of North Texas (NTXCF)	TX	State	0.0%	3	$1,000
Land O'Lakes Foundation	MN	National	0.0%	3	$1,000

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Football clubs and leagues grantees

Football leagues with more than $5 million in total revenues received 5% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 5% of all football leagues.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	154
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	0

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,000
$100k-$500k	$1,000
$500k-$1M	$5,000
$1M-$5M	$750
>$5M	$507

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
Virginia	23
California	23
Texas	11
Florida	10
Other	87

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Richmond	15
Los Angeles	12
Seattle	7
Minneapolis	7
Other	97

Top 25 grants made to football leagues

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Challenger Miracle Field of Wny	$5,000	Program Support	Jeffery and Patricia Davis Family Foundation
Sachem Sports Club	$5,000	Player Matching Grant	NFL Foundation
Bellevue Bulldogs Jr College Football	$5,000	General Program Support	T-Mobile USA Foundation
Berryessa Cougars Football and Cheer	$5,000	Community Service	The Davidson Family Foundation
Cover 3 Football (C3F)	$5,000	Grants Awarded	United Way of South Hampton Roads
Treasure Coast Elite	$5,000	Donation	Jaem Foundation
Cross Training Athletics	$5,000	Charitable	William and Diane Hein Foundation
Redstone Ravens Football Association	$5,000	Team Equipment	Houston Texans Foundation
Youth Sports Foundation	$5,000	Civic & Community Muscatine	HNI Charitable Foundation
Fort White Quarterback Club	$5,000	Charitable - Parknership Program	Felburn Foundation
Cover 3 Football (C3F)	$5,000	Community Engagement Grant	Obici Healthcare Foundation
Cover 3 Football (C3F)	$5,000	Community Engagement Grant	Obici Healthcare Foundation
American Youth Football / Idamay Black Diamonds Mountaineer Y	$5,000	General Fund	Nick's Kids Foundation
CHS Coyote Football	$5,000	To Promote and Support Football Clubs and Leagues	Michael Klein Foundation
Ohio High School Football Coaches A	$5,000	Youth Football Fund	Cleveland Browns Foundation
Maplewood Athletic Association	$5,000	General Donation	The Plank Family Foundation
Friends of Sunset Football	$5,000	Lift A Thon	The Reser Family Foundation
Warde Football Gridiron	$5,000	Scholarship Support	Newman's Own Foundation
Malcolm Youth Sports Association (MYSA)	$5,000	Charitable	Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation
The Lillard Foundation	$5,000	Donation	Oakland Natives Give Back Fund
Kare Youth League (KYL)	$5,000	General Support	Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF)
Fairfax County Youth Football League	$5,000	To Assist Its Exempt Purpose.	Schwarzmann Family Foundation
Central City Seahawks	$4,839	Player Matching Grant	NFL Foundation
Palo Alto Youth Robotics Association	$4,750	Program Support	Us Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
Upper St Clair Football Boosters Association	$4,737	General	Casey Family 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 "Football leagues" category for this page is determined by the "N65: Football Clubs, Leagues" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.