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The IHSAA Foundation

In other words, the IHSAA Foundation Like a diversified investment portfolio,
is about character development, not the the IHSAA Foundation is earning revenue
numbers on a scoreboard or, for that matter, from a variety of sources, and the totals are
on a financial report. increasing every year. To spur this progress,
the Foundation continues to reach out to
Now, let’s look at a few of the specific numbers donors through a targeted direct mail, social
from the 2019-20 school year: media and newsletter marketing campaign.

• The total number of donors to the In reality, the story of the Foundation is an
IHSAA Foundation jumped from 490 easy one to tell because the generosity of
in 2018-19 to 617 in 2019-20. That’s an contributors isn’t being stashed away for
increase of 25.92%. use in some future unknown way. Instead,
it is being used to fund character-building
• Unrestricted individual donations grew programs for today’s teens. Examples include
by 19.14%. the InSideOut Initiative and Habitudes
for Athletes, both of which are designed to
• The IHSAA Foundation’s donor reten- reinforce the ethical and moral foundation of
tion rate was 86.5%, almost twice the every student who is touched by them, inching
national average of 46.5%. our community closer to the kind of respon-
sible, empathetic leadership our world needs.
• Revenue from the IHSAA Foundation Donors will be pleased to know that more
Golf Outing went from $44,000 to than 150 Indiana high schools participated in
$50,000. the InSideOut Initiative in 2019-20, touching
thousands of young Hoosier athletes.
• IHSAA member-schools contributed
$18,172.83 in 2019-20 through the In addition, the IHSAA Foundation awarded
Foundation’s sectional appeal program, grants to 17 Indiana high schools, totaling
20% more than the previous year. almost $18,000, so they could participate in
the Habitudes for Athletes character develop-
• The IHSAA matched the donations ment program. And more than 50 Indiana high
from member-schools dollar for dollar, schools received a grant of $279 each to take
bringing the total contribution through the six-course curriculum required to become
the Foundation’s sectional appeal an InSideOut Certified School. The Founda-
program to $36,345.66. tion also is in the early stages of developing a
student post-graduate scholarship program.
• 318 of the IHSAA’s 412 member-schools
contributed to the IHSAA Foundation in
2019-20, an impressive 77%!

TOTAL NUMBER OF DONORS MEMBER-SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS*
2018–19 DONORS 490 2018–19 $14,538

2019–20 DONORS 617 26% 2019–20 $18,172 + IHSAA MATCHING DONATION $36,344
OF $18,172
UNRESTRICTED DONATIONS: 19% *DONATIONS MADE BY THE FOUNDATION’S SECTIONAL APPEAL PROGRAM
DONOR RETENTION: 87% (national average is 47%)
MEMBER-SCHOOL CONTRIBUTORS
GOLF OUTING REVENUE
94 CONTRIBUTING SCHOOLS
2018 $44,000
318 NON-CONTRIBUTING SCHOOLS
2019 $50,000

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