College Sports Money · Division I FBS

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon · Football Bowl Subdivision · public university. University of Oregon reported $167.1M of athletic revenue in 2024-25 against $164.7M of expenses. That is 1.4 times the $116.0M median for the 128 Football Bowl Subdivision programs, and it ranks 36th of 128 in the FBS and 36th of 358 across Division I. Revenue rose 10.7% on the prior year’s $150.9M.

Analysis by , Chief Technology Officer at Civly · All 358 Division I schools

$167.1M
athletic revenue, 2024-25
$164.7M
athletic expenses
$2.4M
revenue less expenses
+10.7%
revenue against the prior year
36th of 128
by revenue in the FBS
36th of 358
by revenue in Division I
525
athletes · 334 men, 332 women
19,430
students enrolled

Revenue cap and rosters

All figures come from the school’s own filings for 2024-25 and are compared with the 128 programs in its group.

The revenue-sharing cap

Cost of paying the full cap

Paying the full $21.3M revenue-sharing cap for 2026-27 would take 12.7% of this department’s revenue. The cap is the most a school may pay its athletes directly, and no school is required to pay it. Third-party name, image and likeness money is uncapped and does not count against it.

Who is on the rosters

Participation and enrollment as surveyed

525 athletes were counted at the school in the survey year, filling 334 men’s and 332 women’s roster spots across 12 sports. The two counts differ because an athlete who plays two sports fills a spot in both. Enrollment is 19,430. Football is the largest single line, $119.6M of revenue against $60.8M of expenses, which is 72% of what the department earned.

Sport by sport

Each row shows one sport’s revenue, expenses and athletes.

SportRevenueExpensesNetMenWomen
Football$119.6M$60.8M+$58.7M1260
Basketball$13.5M$20.8M−$7.3M1829
Baseball$1.2M$5.4M−$4.2M440
Track and Field and Cross Country (combined)$1.0M$7.4M−$6.4M122123
Volleyball$906k$2.6M−$1.7M016
Softball$878k$4.0M−$3.1M023
Golf$224k$2.4M−$2.2M139
Beach Volleyball$220k$805k−$586k022
Soccer$211k$2.4M−$2.2M029
Lacrosse$174k$2.1M−$1.9M031
Tennis$144k$2.0M−$1.9M117
Gymnastics$143k$1.9M−$1.7M043

The table shows the 12 sports at University of Oregon that reported money or participants in 2024-25. Sports the school surveyed but left empty are not shown. Revenue and expenses attributed to no single sport, which at most departments is the larger share of both, are counted only in the department totals above, so these rows do not add to those totals. Sort by any column.

Who funds the athletes

We have verified one organization as funding this program. Its tax return reports what it raised.

Oregon Booster Association Inc

Booster foundation · EIN 943180347 · Eugene, OR · tax year 2024, for the period ending 2025-06-30
Total revenue
$71k
Contributions
$32k
Total revenue, year before
$71k
Contributions, year before
$63k
Change in revenue
+$131

“Support University of Oregon Athletics”

The link to University of Oregon comes from what this organization says it exists for, in the mission statement on its own tax return, plus its registration in the same state. Its 990 mission names the school and uses athletics or NIL language, its name includes athletics wording, and it is based in Eugene.

Limits of these figures

1

The survey year comes before revenue sharing started

The revenue-sharing cap is the most a school may pay its athletes directly: $20.5M for 2025-26 and $21.3M for 2026-27. No school is required to pay it. Third-party NIL money is uncapped and does not count against it. No federal athletics survey covers a revenue-sharing year yet. The first is expected around spring 2027.

2

What the survey is

Every college that takes federal student aid and fields a team files this survey each year under the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act. Because filing is a federal requirement, the survey covers private universities that NCAA-based databases do not include. The figures are the school’s own reported numbers for 2024-25, and the Department of Education does not audit them. Reported revenue includes direct institutional support and student fees, so every department in the survey reports revenue at least equal to its expenses, and a reported surplus does not mean a profit.

3

What a Form 990 shows

A Form 990 shows what an organization raised. It never shows what any athlete was paid. No figure in the funder section is anyone’s compensation or the value of any deal. The form has no single donor-money line. Some organizations book donor money as contributions and others as program service revenue or fees for services, so each funder card lists total revenue first.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act survey, 2024-25; IRS Form 990 e-file releases for donor entities. Analysis: Civly.

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