Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.
Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. † Our membership records (CollegeFootballData.com) date the move to another season, or don’t show it. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 189 team-seasons from 2007. the member tables in the conference’s Wikipedia article agree with ours in 187 of 188 team-seasons from 2007. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.
Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 2007); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.
The money
The Colonial Athletic Association (its corporation is now the CAA Football) is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2023 reports $1.2 million in revenue, $403,000 of it from flosports rights fees, and $1.1 million in expenses; it ended the year with $1.1 million in assets. Its best-paid, commissioner Joseph D’antonio, was paid $104,000.
By year
Year
Revenue
Expenses
Assets
Top pay
2022-23
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$104K
2021-22
$1.2M
$841K
$1.1M
$99K
2020-21
$775K
$562K
$643K
$101K
2019-20
$934K
$855K
$455K
$104K
2018-19
$678K
$703K
$376K
2017-18
$676K
$679K
$439K
2016-17
$665K
$735K
$448K
2015-16
$950K
$1.2M
$555K
2014-15
$1.1M
$956K
$704K
2013-14
$674K
$603K
$690K
2012-13
$635K
$514K
$471K
2011-12
$638K
$627K
$357K
2010-11
$648K
$568K
$326K
Best paid, 2022-23
Joseph D’antonio, commissioner
$104,000
Lynn Newton, COO
$27,000
From the organization’s IRS Form 990, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS’s e-file data. Fiscal years end in June; top pay is the best-paid person’s total compensation on the return, listed for e-filed years (2018 on). Grants are the ones the conference lists on Schedule I; bowl payments are the ones bowls list on theirs. See every filing at ProPublica (EIN 42-1719463).
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