US College Athletics Finances

What’s in the listing

The full dataset contains 406,585 records: 38,852 institution-year and 367,626 institution-sport-year records from the Department of Education's Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA) survey for 2007 through 2025, and 107 booster foundation and NIL collective records for 70 schools, each with a match status. The count is not a count of unique institutions or athletes. Survey years before 2016 named the Division I subdivisions I-A, I-AA and I-AAA. Those records use today's names: FBS, FCS and Division I without football. The survey covers qualifying postsecondary institutions with intercollegiate athletics programs, not every US college.

The same views serve the trial and the subscription. During the free 30-day trial, COLLEGE_ATHLETICS.INSTITUTIONS and COLLEGE_ATHLETICS.INSTITUTION_SPORTS return the 2024 and 2025 surveys, 40,081 records. The donor-entity view returns no rows during the trial. A yearly subscription adds survey years 2007 through 2023 and the booster and NIL records. Collection timestamps show when Civly stored or updated a record. They do not establish when an institution filed its survey.

Records by view

Data dictionary

The COLLEGE_ATHLETICS.INSTITUTIONS and COLLEGE_ATHLETICS.INSTITUTION_SPORTS views contain 79 columns in total. The same views serve the trial and the subscription.

Data dictionary: COLLEGE_ATHLETICS.INSTITUTIONS

51 columns. During the free trial it returns the 2024 and 2025 surveys, 4,077 records. Subscribers see 2007 to 2025, 38,852 records.

Data dictionary: COLLEGE_ATHLETICS.INSTITUTION_SPORTS

28 columns. During the free trial it returns the 2024 and 2025 surveys, 36,004 records. Subscribers see 2007 to 2025, 367,626 records.

Joining the tables

Join on UNITID and SURVEY_YEAR. A school can have multiple sport rows in a survey year. Use the institution table for school-level totals and the sport table for sport-level comparisons.

Sample queries

After installing, set your worksheet database selector to the installed database. These queries then run as written. Amounts are reported in US dollars.

-- 2025 athletics revenue by institution
SELECT INSTITUTION_NAME, STATE, TOTAL_REVENUE, TOTAL_EXPENSE
FROM COLLEGE_ATHLETICS.INSTITUTIONS
WHERE SURVEY_YEAR = 2025
ORDER BY TOTAL_REVENUE DESC NULLS LAST
LIMIT 100;

-- Participation and athletic aid by institution
-- Compare reported men's and women's participation and athletic aid for the 2025 survey.
-- The aid fields are reported amounts, not audited spending.
SELECT INSTITUTION_NAME, STATE, PARTICIPANTS_MEN, PARTICIPANTS_WOMEN, ATHLETIC_AID_MEN, ATHLETIC_AID_WOMEN
FROM COLLEGE_ATHLETICS.INSTITUTIONS
WHERE SURVEY_YEAR = 2025
ORDER BY INSTITUTION_NAME
LIMIT 100;

-- Connect sports to their institutions
-- Join on the federal institution ID and survey year.
-- Sport rows are reported separately and should not be summed to infer unique athletes.
SELECT i.INSTITUTION_NAME, i.STATE, s.SPORT_NAME, s.SURVEY_YEAR, s.TOTAL_REVENUE, s.TOTAL_EXPENSE
FROM COLLEGE_ATHLETICS.INSTITUTION_SPORTS s
JOIN COLLEGE_ATHLETICS.INSTITUTIONS i
  ON i.UNITID = s.UNITID AND i.SURVEY_YEAR = s.SURVEY_YEAR
WHERE s.SURVEY_YEAR = 2025
ORDER BY i.INSTITUTION_NAME, s.SPORT_NAME
LIMIT 100;

Sourcing and attribution

The source is the Department of Education EADA data download. The department explains which institutions report under EADA. Revenue, expense, participation, athletic aid and coaching figures are institution-reported. Amounts are in US dollars and are not independently audited by Civly.

For coverage or access questions: matthew@civly.ai