Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION
DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,532,750 to it, the largest being EWS FOUNDATION ($689,450). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation does
Programs
The foundation's primary activities during the fiscal year focused on (I) grantmaking in support of the foundation's mission; and (ii) promoting and generating public awareness of the foundation and its grant-making programs, specifically related to breaking down barriers to ensure that all communities have the chance to play sports, learn and prosper.the foundation's primary focus is ensuring all youth have the opportunity to play and benefit from sports. The foundation accomplishes this objective through its sports matter program, which includes grant-making and a public awareness campaign to address the barriers of participation in youth sports, including accessibility of equipment, safe recreational space to play, league costs to maintain youth sports programs in local communities, and family registration fees often required for youth sport participation.
$16,653,920 spentThe foundation also supports economic opportunities in local communities through programs established for education and the outdoors. The foundation had a partnership with a public school district located outside of pittsburgh, pa. In partnership with the district, the foundation focused on working to better serve the needs of students, families and staff in the community to help develop healthy minds, bodies and relationships necessary to successfully navigate today's world. As of july 6, 2025, the foundation concluded its partnership with the district, which had previously benefited from its educational initiatives. The foundation is currently assessing new strategies and future directions for its education program. In addition, the foundation's public lands fund provides grants to local and national non-profit organizations that protect and maintain public lands, break down the barriers of access to outdoor experiences, and improve inclusion and equity in the outdoors.
$2,383,202 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $19M to $48M (+155%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rick Jordan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $143k → $25k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 85% · 2019 78% · 2020 63% · 2021 53% · 2022 95% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
22% of DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION?
- DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,532,750 to it, the largest being EWS FOUNDATION ($689,450). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,532,750 in grants to DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION?
- EWS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $689,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DICK'S SPORTING GOODS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing