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Nike Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $17M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Nike Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,975,651
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $48M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Nike Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $7.8M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $6.4M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $12M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $13M | 83% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $6.9M | 75% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $18M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $5,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $1,225,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Nations Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 47% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $750,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Feeding America | $750,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc | $750,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($50M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nike Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About Nike Foundation
- How much does Nike Foundation give?
- Nike Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $16,739,627 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Nike Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (51%), Youth Development (36%), Public Safety & Disaster (5%).
- Who are Nike Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Barack Obama Foundation ($5.0M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($1.2M), United Nations Foundation Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Nike Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nike Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nike Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, AbbVie Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Nike Foundation based?
- Nike Foundation is based in OR.
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