Tax filings (Form 990) explorer

NIL & revenue sharing · Coach pay & buyouts · Media rights & conference revenue · Deficits, subsidies & debt · Donors & endowments · Private schools · Revenue sharing tracker · Known NIL deals · Tax filings (990s) · Sources

Every tax-exempt organization in college football's money chain files an IRS Form 990: conferences, the NCAA, private universities, many athletic associations and booster foundations, and the NIL collectives organized as charities. This explorer covers 58 organizations and 999 filing-years. Click an organization for revenue, expenses, grants and top-paid people by year, each linked to the filing.

Source: IRS e-file data as rendered by ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (same IRS object IDs as the IRS TEOS bulk data). Years before about 2011 are scanned paper returns; those link to the PDF and have no extracted figures. “Revenue” and “expenses” are Form 990 Part I totals. “Grants paid” is Part I line 13 (for conferences, mostly distributions to member schools). Pay is reportable compensation from the organization plus related organizations plus estimated other compensation (Part VII), names and titles as filed. 990s run 5 to 11 months behind the fiscal year, so most FY2026 returns aren't filed yet. Not comparable with EADA or Knight-Newhouse figures.

Gaps

• Schools with no separate 990 filer found (23): University of Arizona, University of California, Berkeley, University of Houston, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Iowa, Iowa State University, University of Kentucky, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ohio State University, University of Oklahoma, University of Oregon, Pennsylvania State University, University of Pittsburgh, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, University of Texas at Austin, University of California, Los Angeles, Virginia Tech, West Virginia University, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their athletics and booster money runs through the university or a general university foundation, so no athletics-only 990 exists.
• BYU files no 990 (church-owned). The College Football Playoff's operating company (CFP Administration LLC) is not a 990 filer, and its foundation has no indexed filings.
• Most NIL collectives are for-profit LLCs and file no 990.
• Not shown: 8 nonprofits whose names match a school's NIL collective but whose filings don't name the school. They stay out until the connection is verified. Organizations with no filings on record are also left out.

Related: Private schools · Coach pay & buyouts · School pages