· Private foundation
Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k620 grants · $2.3M
- $10k–50k311 grants · $4.7M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+9 grants · $9.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVERY KID SPORT | $2,500,000 |
| GOOD SPORTS INC | $2,000,000 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORP | $2,000,000 |
| MCKEESPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $930,000 |
| DONORSCHOOSEORG | $500,000 |
| MCKEESPORT HIGH SCHOOL | $275,000 |
| MARATHON KIDS INC | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $250,000 |
| MARATHON KIDS | $250,000 |
| SERIOUSFUN CHILDRENS NETWORK | $150,000 |
| CITY OF SHREVEPORT | $110,000 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | $100,000 |
| MERGING VETS AND PLAYERS | $100,000 |
| BEAT THE STREETS CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| KIDS 2 CAMP FUND OF THE GREATER | $100,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
727 repeat relationships — 292 still active in FY2025, 435 since wound down; 300 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DDONORSCHOOSEORG6× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +24%
- USUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $5.0M · revenue +87%
- PFPGA FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2021 · $666k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- DCDONORS CHOOSEone grant, 2022 · $1.6M
- GSGOOD SPORTS INC BUSINESS CHECone grant, 2024 · $840k
- GOGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2020 · $799k · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Youth sports
Sports program for youth
Youth Sports activities
Youth Baseball league
Youth sports and recreation for all to help develop social skills.
Youth sports - physical education & skills development
Provide a competitive and supportive environment for youth athletes to develop as basketball players and learn important life lessons along the way.
To provide various sports and trained coaches to the boys and girls in our youth community ages 5-14.
Flow provides the mentorship, resources, and community support that allow young athletes to thrive across every field, court and classroom. Our purpose at Flow Athletics is to prepare the next generation of student-athletes for life on and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc and the most unlike its peers is Couloak Steelers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
897 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 897 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds Every Kid Sports ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHON KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE LINDSEY VONN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND SPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCCER UNITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Girls on the Run International Inc · Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc · World Golf Foundation Inc · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Womens Sports Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA · The George W Bush Foundation · The Jcpenney Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Active City Inc — 29% of income from government
- Move United — 16% of income from government
- Beyond Soccer Inc — 7% of income from government
- Soccer Unity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Girls On the Run Greater Boston — 4% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Marathon Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.