Civly Athletics

Find the people who already write checks.

Civly ranks alumni and boosters using documented giving, public records of financial capacity, and public ties to your program. Each claim links to its source, with contact details attached where available. Collective donor rolls are not public.

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What is public, and what is not

The sources we use and the information they can provide.

What we can see
  • Documented philanthropy — major gifts, university and museum donor honor rolls, and private-foundation grant schedules filed with the IRS
  • Nonprofit leadership — the officers, directors and trustees named on IRS 990s, across tens of millions of records
  • Professional standing — the confirmed LinkedIn profile behind a name: current title, employer, seniority and tenure
  • Capacity in the record — corporate officer roles and business registrations, real-estate ownership and county deed filings, SEC holdings and insider filings
  • Affinity in public — what someone actually says about your program across fourteen social platforms
  • The contact information Civly already holds for that person
What nobody can see
  • Who already gives to your collective. Those rolls are not public records, and we do not have them
  • Individual gifts to a charity. The donor schedule on a 990 is redacted in public copies — we see giving only when it runs through a foundation or lands on a published honor roll
  • Net worth. We report what is filed. We do not sell you a modelled wealth estimate for a private individual
  • Anything behind a private account or a private ledger

Giving, capacity, and affinity are scored separately. Each signal links to a filing or public post so you can decide whom to contact first.

What comes back

A ranked list you can start calling

Send us your alumni or booster list and it comes back ordered on all three signals, with the filing behind every claim. Click any row.

Booster list — ranked on giving, capacity and affinity Illustrative · names withheld
J. — parent, not an alum

Family foundation files grants every year

Documented giving$312,400 in filed foundation grants, 9 years
Capacity on the recordRetired partner (LinkedIn) · officer on 3 registrations · 2 properties on the county roll
AffinityLow — no public posts about the program
  • Private foundation’s IRS filings list grants to 14 organizations, two of them university programs
  • Named as a trustee of a regional arts nonprofit on its 990
  • County deed records show two commercial parcels held since 2011, and the LinkedIn profile confirms a retired partner-level role

Contact Mailing address on file

Every line above traces to a filing or a public post — an IRS 990, a published honor roll, a corporate or deed record, a LinkedIn profile, or something the person said in public. Where there is nothing on file, the report says so instead of inferring a number. None of it is a record of anything given to a collective. The same filings do show the scale of the money around a program: across 54 Division I programs, booster foundations out-raise NIL collectives 17 to 1.

You can read the program-level picture before you commission anything. The College Sports Money explorer is free and carries a page for each of the 358 Division I schools, with that department’s revenue and expenses, its rank against its peers, the cost of every sport it fields, and the booster foundation or collective verified as funding it. For 304 of the 358 no funder clears verification, and the page says exactly that. Collective Prospecting is the next step: the named people behind the money, each traced to a filing or a public post.

Two ways to run it

Start from your list, or start from the map

Most programs already have a list and no idea which names are worth the call. Some have neither.

  • 1 Rank your list. Send the alumni or booster file you already have. It comes back scored on all three signals, with the filing behind each name and the contact data we hold.
  • 2 Build one. Give us a geography and an affiliation and we surface the people in it with a real giving or capacity record, ranked the same way.
Talk it through

What you get back

  • A working spreadsheet, ranked — not a PDF
  • Documented giving, capacity and affinity scored separately, so you can sort on the one you care about
  • The specific filing behind every claim — 990, honor roll, corporate registry, deed
  • Nonprofit boards they already sit on — often the warmest path in
  • The contact information Civly holds on file, where we hold it
  • A written briefing from the Civly team on how to work the list

Frequently Asked Questions

Collective Prospecting, answered.

Do you know who gives to other collectives?

No. Collective donor rolls are not public records. We use published giving records and public information about a person’s financial capacity.

Where does the giving data actually come from?

Three places. Published donor honor rolls at universities and museums, which name donors in gift bands. Private-foundation grant schedules filed with the IRS, which list every grant a foundation made and to whom. And the officers, directors and trustees named on nonprofit 990s. What we cannot see is an individual’s direct gift to a charity — that donor schedule is redacted in the public copy of a 990.

Is this wealth screening?

Not in the usual sense. We do not hand you a modelled net-worth number for a private individual. We report what is actually on file — the role and seniority on their LinkedIn profile, officer roles and business registrations, property and deed records, SEC holdings — and let you draw the inference, with the source attached.

Why does affinity matter if someone has the money?

A giving record and a connection to your program can help you prioritize outreach. Alumni with strong ties but less capacity may be better prospects for a small recurring gift.

Is the contact information verified?

We attach the contact information Civly already holds for a person, and we tell you which fields we hold and which we do not. Treat it as a starting point for outreach rather than a guaranteed reach.

How current is it?

It depends on the source, and the list says so per field. IRS 990s are annual and typically land six to eighteen months after the year they cover, so foundation and nonprofit-leadership data is the slowest. Corporate and deed records update as they are filed. Social affinity is current. Every list states its cutoff on the first page.

Send us your list

We will score a sample from it so you can see the signal before you commit to anything.

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