Texas · Nonprofit
DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION
DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,286 to it, the largest being CELEBRITY GAMES FOR CHARITY ($265,176). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Weil Gotshal & Manges Foundation Incshared funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $100k → $27k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 DIRK NOWITZKI 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
DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 77% · 2021 71% · 2022 50% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“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
25% of DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% 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
94% of DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Weil Gotshal & Manges Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kenny Jacob Rudin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Propp Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bernice and Milton Stern Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Johnny Damon Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arlette & William J Coleman Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Zarabi Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION?
- DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,286 to it, the largest being CELEBRITY GAMES FOR CHARITY ($265,176). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $407,286 in grants to DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION?
- CELEBRITY GAMES FOR CHARITY is the largest funder on record, with $265,176 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing