Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$932,064

Total expenses

$959,788

Contributions and grants received

$92,909

Grants paid

$13,757

Program service revenue

$838,305

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$850

Total assets, end of year

$64,637

Total liabilities, end of year

$72,940

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

-$8,303

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$779,139

Management and general expenses

$173,173

Fundraising expenses

$7,476

Program service expenses (Part III)

$779,139

Program services were 81.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE UPPER MIDWEST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (THE UMAC) CONTINUES TO PROVIDE FOR ITS MEMBER INSTITUTIONS OPPORTUNITY TO BE RECOGNIZED IN ITS REGION AS INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE IN THE FOREFRONT OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND ATHLETIC COMPETITIVENESS. THE UMAC IS COMPRISED OF 8 FULL MEMBERS AND 5 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE MIDWEST AND IS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (NCAA) AT THE DIVISION III LEVEL. THE 8 MEMBER SCHOOLS INCLUDE: BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE, CROWN COLLEGE, MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE, NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY, NORTHLAND COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST. PAUL, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - MORRIS, AND UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - SUPERIOR. 18 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS WERE RECOGNIZED IN THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR, INCLUDING 9 MEN'S SPORTS AND 9 WOMEN'S SPORTS. THE UMAC STRIVES TO ENRICH THE COLLEGIATE EXPERIENCE OF STUDENT-ATHLETES BY OFFERING A RANGE OF HIGHLY COMPETITIVE ATHLETIC OPPORTUNITIES. THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THE UMAC IS STUDENT-ATHLETES, WITH AN UNCOMPROMISING COMMITMENT TO ATHLETIC EQUITY AND TO THE PRIMACY OF STUDENT ACADEMIC PROGRESS. FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR, 2,687 TOTAL STUDENT-ATHLETES FROM ALL MEMBER INSTITUTIONS PARTICIPATED IN CONFERENCE SPORTS. THE UMAC PROVIDES THE FOLLOWING SERVICES FOR ITS MEMBERS: STRATEGIC PLANNING, GUARANTEED CONTESTS (FORMAL SCHEDULING), ASSIGNING OF OFFICIALS, HOSTING OF CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS, FACILITATION OF AWARDS PROGRAM, AND PUBLIC RELATIONS ASSISTANCE VIA SPORTS INFORMATION.

  Expenses $779,139 · Grants $13,756 · Revenue $838,305

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE

  501(C)(3) · SCHOOL · MN

• NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY

  501(C)(3) · SCHOOL · MN

• UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL

  501(C)(3) · SCHOOL · MN

• NORTHLAND COLLEGE

  501(C)(3) · SCHOOL · WI

• CROWN COLLEGE

  501(C)(3) · SCHOOL · MN

• MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE

  501(C)(3) · SCHOOL · MN

• UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR

  SCHOOL · WI

• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-MORRIS

  SCHOOL · MN

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

13 April 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

202611139349301111

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