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Fanatics Charitable Foundation

Our mission is to create positive and lasting change across the global communities in which our employees and fans live, work, and play through a commitment of time and strategic philanthropic engagements.

$7.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
77
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$11MCrime & Legal$9.2MInternational$1.7MEducation$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MHuman Services$822kYouth Development$707kCivil Rights$600kOther$0
02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 77 grants below total $6,614,402, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,962,593 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $348,191 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $975k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.4M
$25,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM ALLIANCE$3,000,000
BABY2BABY$400,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$215,811
CACTUS JACK FOUNDATION$160,000
MAKE A WISH AMERICA$139,141
THE GIVING BACK FUND (FROM THE DEPTHS)$100,000
FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM$100,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$100,000
LEBRON JAMES FOUNDATION$100,000
AID COALITION$100,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$100,000
PROJECT HEALTHY MINDS$100,000
ASPINALL FOUNDATION$100,000
MUSICARES$100,000
DEVIL'S ARENA ENTERTAINMENT$85,000
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 (FY23–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $31k → 8%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE CENTER: $25k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $66k → 14%USHER'S NEW LOOK: $150k → 13%NEIGHBORHOOD HEROES FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%DELIVERING GOOD: $15k → 17%LA LA LAND FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%EDWARD CHARLES FDN (ROCKET FOUNDATION): $960k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FDN (GRANT WILLIAMS FAMILY FDN): $35k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FDN(GRANT WILLIAMS FMLY FDN): $25k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FDN (CHRIS PAUL FOUNDATION): $22k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FDN (THE ROCKET FOUNDATION): $12k → 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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
DE
AZ
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 28 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
34

Total granted

$23M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+5%

Still filing today

96%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $9.8M · revenue +1%
  • CJ
    CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +219%
  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $700k · revenue -53%
  • UN
    USHER'S NEW LOOK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -11%
  • LL
    LA LA LAND FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -29% · 45% of their budget
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.

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New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
The Council of Urban Professionals Institute

The council of urban professionals institute's (cupi)mission is to inspire, elevate, and empower the next generation of diverse business, civic leaders and women.

Community Improvement
3
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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4
Washington Nationals Philanthropies

Washington nationals philanthropies is the official charitable arm of the washington nationals. its mission is to help children, families, and communities thrive through sports-based youth development and access to healthy food. the…

Youth Development
5
Wexner Foundation
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6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is The Aspinall Foundation Usa. 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

108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/108
Grantees still filing
56/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $9,780,042 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICABABY2BABY: $550,000 · Other+52 more: $2,247,263 · Other+52 moreCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $9,000,000 · Crime & LegalCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION+3 more: $200,000 · Crime & LegalEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $1,054,253 · Human ServicesUSHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesLA LA LAND FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $76,515 · Human Services+4 more: $120,851 · Human ServicesSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $700,000 · EducationCornell University: $300,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $215,811 · EducationWHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Education+9 more: $161,500 · EducationCACTUS JACK FOUNDATION INC: $260,000 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $150,000 · PhilanthropyThe New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $100,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $73,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JAYSON TATUM FOUNDATION: $70,000 · PhilanthropyTURN 2 FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyChasing Ms Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyRYAN SEACREST FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $181,000 · PhilanthropyWE THE BEST FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HEALTHY MINDS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILADELPHIA CITIZEN: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $500,000 · Civil Rights
Other$12,577,305Crime & Legal$9,200,000Human Services$1,551,619Education$1,477,311Philanthropy$1,339,000Arts & Culture$690,000Civil Rights$500,000

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 budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $9,780,042 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $9,000,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $1,054,253 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $700,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetBABY2BABY: $550,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCornell University: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $275,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCACTUS JACK FOUNDATION INC: $260,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $215,811 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWE THE BEST FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUSHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLA LA LAND FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetThe New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY MINDS: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWHY-NOT-ME FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $76,515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOR THE PEOPLE: $75,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $73,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAYSON TATUM FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTURN 2 FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetDURKS NEIGHBORHOOD HEROES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREWILD: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChasing Ms Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetATHLETE ALLY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRYAN SEACREST FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAARON JUDGE ALL RISE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCARLTHORP SCHOOL: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Nfl Foundation IncThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Rubin Family Foundati…Major League Baseball…Wasserman FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Giving Grousbeck Fazz…Pledgeling FoundationNational Basketball P…Jewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…The New York Communit…
Nfl Foundation IncNY26.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nfl Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rubin Family Foundation · Major League Baseball Charities Inc · Wasserman Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Giving Grousbeck Fazzalari Dated April 20 2011 · Pledgeling Foundation · National Basketball Players Association Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust

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 Fanatics Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fanatics Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Center On the Palisades: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Fanatics Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fanatics Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 111 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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