Texas · Private foundation
Dirk Nowitzki Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $145k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $852k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Dirk Nowitzki Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $145k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $284k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $182k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $169k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $310k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United to Learn | $400,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Dallas Tennis Association | $200,000 | 2 | 8% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Family Place | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heroes Foundation Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Educational First Steps | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Citysquare | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heart House | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Celebrity Games for Charity | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United to Learn | $400,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Dallas Tennis Association | $200,000 | 2 | 8% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Family Place | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heroes Foundation Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Educational First Steps | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Citysquare | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heart House | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Celebrity Games for Charity | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Hope Supply Co | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mosaic Family Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dallas Casa | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Andrew S Roddick Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cafe Momentum | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Gateway Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Dallas | $4,728 | 1 | n/a |
| Dallas Museum of Art | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kid Net Foundation Jonathans Place | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Nasher Sculpture Center | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($110k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dirk Nowitzki Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Dirk Nowitzki Foundation
- How much does Dirk Nowitzki Foundation give?
- Dirk Nowitzki Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $145,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Dirk Nowitzki Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Recreation & Sports (21%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Dirk Nowitzki Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: United to Learn ($400k), Dallas Tennis Association ($200k), North Texas Food Bank ($100k).
- Does Dirk Nowitzki Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dirk Nowitzki Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dirk Nowitzki Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc.
- Where is Dirk Nowitzki Foundation based?
- Dirk Nowitzki Foundation is based in TX.
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