· Private foundation
Dirk Nowitzki Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS TENNIS ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| THE FAMILY PLACE | $25,000 |
| CELEBRITY GAMES FOR CHARITY | $15,000 |
| BOOKER T WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL- PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- UTUNITED TO LEARN4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +162%
- DTDALLAS TENNIS ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +8%
- HFHEROES FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $31k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +35%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +46%- CCITYSQUAREone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -70%
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.
Head start of greater dallas, inc. provides children with the foundation of skills and knowledge they need to be successful in school and life and fosters self-reliant families and communities.
First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
Child360 works to improve the quality of early learning and give children the best start in school and life. its mission is to strengthen education programs, nurture family engagement, grow a qualified workforce and advance public policy…
Provide mental health services to promote resiliency, wellness and positive developmental outcomes through prevention, treatment, education and family support for children under the age of 9 who have experienced abuse, neglect and other…
Children's services
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
The mission of Childs Place is to listen to children in a safe developmentally sensitive and legally sound manner; to unite professionals in a coordinated response to child abuse; to guide children and families toward healing through…
The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.
In Tulsa County there are several agencies that address prevention and treatment of child abuse, but the Child Advocacy Network (CAN) is the ONLY nonprofit that provides intervention services for children and their nonoffending…
To help vulnerable children and their families build permanent, positive change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Casa and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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
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 UNITED TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds DALLAS TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds HEART HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CELEBRITY GAMES FOR CHARITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE SUPPLY CO ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds ANDREW S RODDICK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds KID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
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: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Dirk Nowitzki 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.
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.