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HILLTOPPER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION INC

EIN 61-0656420 BOWLING GREEN, KY

Largest nonprofits in Kentucky

Revenue 2024
$5,640,944
Expenses 2024
$5,108,289

Program services were 86.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N41Z
Classification
1200
Street
1605 AVENUE OF CHAMPIONS

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY (WKU) ATHLETIC PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENT-ATHLETES AND TO FACILITATE FINANCING OF SPECIFIED WKU ATHLETIC CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FUNDS RECEIVED BY THE FOUNDATION ARE USED TO SUPPORT THE ATHLETIC PROGRAMS AT WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY. AWARDS WERE MADE TO THE INDIVIDUAL ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES DURING THE FYE DECEMBER 31, 2024 .

  • FUNDS RECEIVED BY THE FOUNDATION ARE USED TO SUPPORT THE ATHLETIC PROGRAMS AT WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY. AWARDS WERE MADE TO THE INDIVIDUAL ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2024.

    Expenses $2,731,317 · Grants $1,611,188

  • PROVIDE FUNDS TO WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS TO ATHLETIC FACILITIES USED BY STUDENT ATHLETES.

    Expenses $1,693,938 · Grants $1,693,938

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kyle Allen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Travis Armstrong

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Bob Baysinger

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Gemonee Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Craig Browning

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Dr Andrew Burt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Ginger Cleary

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Rett Dallas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Doug Gorman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Kevin Gregory

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Greg Hines

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Kevin Humphrey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Belle Hunt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Lanny Loague

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Brian Lowder

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Jim Martens

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Kristin Miller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Joe Morel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Tracy Mosley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Al Pedigo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Hal Schmitt

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,640,944
    Expenses
    $5,108,289
    Contributions
    $5,409,785
    Grants paid
    $3,305,126
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,880,249
    Expenses
    $4,389,698
    Contributions
    $3,676,140
    Grants paid
    $2,193,026
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,703,210
    Expenses
    $3,139,885
    Contributions
    $3,612,349
    Grants paid
    $1,466,246

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,372,740
    Expenses
    $3,101,615
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,275,821

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,169,175
    Expenses
    $3,160,055
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,630,808

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,235,681
    Expenses
    $3,848,275
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,923,877

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,125,465
    Expenses
    $4,996,902
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,687,834

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.