Texas · Private foundation
Mark Cuban Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $860,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Mark Cuban Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $605k 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 | 18 | $2.5M | 61% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $2.4M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $2.1M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $5.5M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $6.1M | 69% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $4.8M | 93% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $4.5M | 94% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Celebrity Games for Charity | $3,752,777 | 7 | 97% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $2,310,003 | 4 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $2,300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Family Place | $1,650,000 | 4 | 4% |
| United States of America Rugby Football Union Ltd | $1,350,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $1,000,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Don'T Ever Give Up Inc | $850,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Center for Competitive Democracy | $500,000 | 2 | 95% |
Show all 115 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mark Cuban Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust · McKesson Foundation Inc · State Fair of Texas · Allegheny Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation
How this is measured
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About Mark Cuban Foundation
- How much does Mark Cuban Foundation give?
- Mark Cuban Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $2,526,666 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mark Cuban Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (20%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Education (16%).
- Who are Mark Cuban Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Celebrity Games for Charity ($3.8M), Indiana University Foundation ($2.3M), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($2.3M).
- Does Mark Cuban Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mark Cuban Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mark Cuban Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation.
- Where is Mark Cuban Foundation based?
- Mark Cuban Foundation is based in TX.
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