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Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
964
Grants FY2025still arriving
50
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$49MEducation$20MYouth Development$11MCommunity Improvement$6.9MHuman Services$2.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.5MEnvironment$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 964 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k620 grants · $2.3M
  • $10k–50k311 grants · $4.7M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+9 grants · $9.0M
$5,000
Median grant
50
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AMERICAN RED CROSS$250,000
MARATHON KIDS$250,000
MARATHON KIDS INC$250,000
SERIOUSFUN CHILDRENS NETWORK$150,000
CITY OF SHREVEPORT$110,000
CAMP KESEM NATIONAL$100,000
MERGING VETS AND PLAYERS$100,000
KIDS 2 CAMP FUND OF THE GREATER$100,000
YOUNG MEN AND WOMENS HEBREW ASSOCIATION$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $10k → 9%ENVISION BLIND SPORTS: $15k → 13%BREAK THE BARRIERS INC: $20k → 19%ENVISION BLIND SPORTS: $15k → 13%STREET SOCCER USA INC: $10k → 10%ENVISION BLIND SPORTS: $10k → 13%OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB: $15k → 10%EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $12k → 19%LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $40k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $10k → 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%VETERANS YOGA PROJECT: $25k → 10%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $100k → 14%STREET SOCCER USA INC: $75k → 17%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%CARMELO ANTHONY FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%WEINGART EAST LOS ANGELES YMCA: $10k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%JASMINE NYREE HOME: $25k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%JASMINE NYREE HOMES INC: $20k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $10k → 11%WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%SOLDIERS TO SIDELINES: $15k → 10%ESTREET COMMUNITY CENTER: $75k → 11%LEAD FOUNDATION: $15k → 5%DISABLED SPORTS USA: $15k → 5%ACTIVE SOCIAL COMMUNITIES: $21k → 19%AFAR: $50k → 17%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $13k → 13%ACTIVE SOCIAL COMMUNITIES: $21k → 19%YMCA OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $50k → 16%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $15k → 21%AFAR INC: $15k → 17%BUDDY FUND: $15k → 21%RISE LEAGUE INC: $75k → 13%ABILITY 360: $58k → 11%LEAD INC: $25k → 13%LEAD INC: $25k → 13%LEAD INC: $13k → 13%PHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES: $50k → 11%BOSTON ATHLETIC ACADEMY: $15k → 16%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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ND
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IL
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NY
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OR
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WY
SD
IA
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RI
CA
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MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
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NM
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AR
TN
NC
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DC
HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
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FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$65M · 723 repeat orgs$26M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

723 repeat relationships: 290 still active in FY2025, 433 since wound down; 294 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

723
972

Total granted

$65M
$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+1%

Still filing today

56%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    6× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +24%
  • US
    UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $5.0M · revenue +87%
  • PF
    PGA FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $666k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • DC
    DONORS CHOOSE
    one grant, 2022 · $1.6M
  • GS
    GOOD SPORTS INC BUSINESS CHEC
    one grant, 2024 · $840k
  • GO
    GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $799k · revenue +9%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
So Cal Aces Baseball Club

Youth sports

Religion
2
Matteson Youth Athletic Association

Sports program for youth

Recreation & Sports
3
Stratford High School Lacrosse

Youth Sports activities

Recreation & Sports
4
Marauders Baseball Club

Youth Baseball league

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5
Mitchell Park Youth Sports League
Recreation & Sports
6
Westchester Elite Sports & Recreation Inc

Youth sports and recreation for all to help develop social skills.

Recreation & Sports
7
Georgia Youth Sports Alliance Inc
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8
Dhs Club

Youth sports - physical education & skills development

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9
Team Tyus

Provide a competitive and supportive environment for youth athletes to develop as basketball players and learn important life lessons along the way.

Recreation & Sports
10
Cherry Creek Youth Sports

To provide various sports and trained coaches to the boys and girls in our youth community ages 5-14.

Youth Development
11
Just Amazing Youth Sports Inc
Youth Development
12
Flow Athletics

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…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

873 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 873 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

43
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
185
Early backer (in before they grew)
835/873
Grantees still filing
476/873
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Every Kid Sports: $9,601,745 · Recreation & SportsEvery Kid SportsUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATI…+32 more: $3,109,500 · Recreation & Sports+32 moreMCKEESPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $2,466,046 · OtherMCKEESPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTDONORS CHOOSE: $1,650,000 · OtherDONORS CHOOSEMCKEESPORT HIGH SCHOOL: $1,450,000 · OtherMCKEESPORT HIGH SCHOOLAMERICAN RED CROSS: $1,000,000 · OtherGOOD SPORTS INC BUSINESS CHEC: $840,000 · OtherPGA FOUNDATION INC: $666,000 · Other+106 more: $11,649,231 · Other+106 moreGOOD SPORTS INC: $9,957,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SPORTS INCGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $798,950 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERN…MARATHON KIDS INC: $520,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LINDSEY VONN FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Youth Development+26 more: $2,428,600 · Youth Development+26 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG: $10,220,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG+6 more: $474,000 · EducationLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $3,500,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $65,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500,000 · Human ServicesSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $109,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem National: $100,000 · Human ServicesRISE LEAGUE INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesE Street Community Center: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARMELO ANTHONY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesABILITY360 INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesAFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER: $65,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $63,000 · Human ServicesLEAD INC: $62,500 · Human ServicesPHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,001,000 · Public BenefitMERGING VETS AND PLAYERS: $100,000 · Public Benefit
Recreation & Sports$17,711,245Other$19,721,277Youth Development$14,204,550Education$10,694,000Community Improvement$3,565,000Human Services$1,434,500Public Benefit$1,101,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $10,220,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $9,957,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetEvery Kid Sports: $9,601,745 over 5y, 52% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $3,500,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,001,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $798,950 over 1y, 12% of budgetPGA FOUNDATION INC: $666,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMARATHON KIDS INC: $520,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND SPORT FOUNDATION INC: $435,100 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $400,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $305,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation: $215,682 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $215,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $200,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $195,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $138,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED: $131,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCCER UNITY PROJECT INC: $125,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $123,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRAES HOPE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 95% of budgetHOUSTON REVISION: $120,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetOutreach with Lacrosse Schools: $115,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL: $110,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUP2US INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $109,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetIRONBOUND BOXING AND EDUCATION INC: $105,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANCHORAGE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC: $100,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetMERGING VETS AND PLAYERS: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL: $98,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO: $98,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $97,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGET ON THE BUS INC: $96,500 over 2y, 24% of budgetFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC: $92,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTROY HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $91,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetSHOOTING TOUCH INC: $90,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetHOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE: $90,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $90,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SOCCER UNITY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Girls on the Run Inte…Pga Tour First Tee Fo…World Golf Foundation…Boys & Girls Clubs of…Boys & Girls Clubs of…Womens Sports Foundat…Good Sports IncLaureus Sport for Goo…The George W Bush Fou…The Jcpenney Foundati…Round It Up America I…Project Lead the Way …
Girls on the Run International IncNC77.9× affinity67 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
51report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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