Uplifting women and girls through strategic investments in education, professional development, healthcare, cultural enrichment, and humanitarian aid.

A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships

     The Deena Jo Heide-Diesslin Foundation (DJHD Foundation), a 501(c)(3) grant-making foundation headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is dedicated to honoring the memory of Deena Jo Heide-Diesslin by “helping people help people.” The DJHD Foundation provides grants, donations and platforming to charitable organizations centered around financial education, empowering women and girls, and other emergency humanitarian causes. With the guiding principle of “a rising tide lifts all ships,” the DJHD Foundation promotes ethical charitable giving with large and small matching grants intended to complete whole projects.

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"Teaching Fishing" with challenge match gifts
"Teaching Fishing" with challenge match gifts

Learn more about one of our favorite gifting strategies - the challenge match gift

A little trip with a big impact
A little trip with a big impact

“It’s one thing to hear about the work that a nonprofit does and what it takes to make a difference, but it’s another thing entirely to actually see it in person.”

Last chance for submitting applications for the 2024 Giving Cycle
Last chance for submitting applications for the 2024 Giving Cycle

This is the last chance for 501(c)3 nonprofits to submit their applications for the DJHD Foundation 2024 Giving Cycle