About Jason Kidd
Jason Kidd built his career on the assist. He retired second all-time in assists and steals, and he was known for seeing a play before anyone else and making the players around him better.
The Foundation works the same way. Jason has seen what sports, mentorship, and education can do for a young person, and what it costs a young person to go without them. The Foundation exists to close that gap.
Kidd was born in Oakland, California, where he played catcher and rooted for the A's before basketball became his path. He knows what it means to need the right people around you at the right time, and to find them. The Foundation is how he passes that on.
From Career to Foundation
1994
NBA Co-Rookie of the Year. Shares the honor with Grant Hill. Begins a 19-season career, finishing 2nd all-time in assists and steals.
1999
Jason Kidd's philanthropic work begins. Mentoring, tutoring, and access to technology for underserved youth. That work is the root of today's Jason Kidd Foundation.
2000
Olympic Gold Medal, Sydney. First of two gold medals representing the United States.
2008
Olympic Gold Medal, Beijing. Wins his second gold with the U.S. team known as the Redeem Team.
2011
NBA Champion. Dallas Mavericks defeat LeBron James and the Miami Heat in six games. Jason announces a partnership with KIPP Truth Academy in Dallas, a school where 95% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
2013
Back-to-back NBA Sportsmanship Award. Kidd becomes the first player in league history to win the Joe Dumars Trophy in consecutive seasons, and the NBA makes donations in recognition of the award. His education work at the time centered on two schools serving underserved youth, KIPP Academy in Dallas and Northern Lights School in Oakland, in the cities where Jason played and grew up.
2018
Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Inducted for his individual playing career.
2020
NBA Champion as assistant coach, Los Angeles Lakers. Wins his second championship as an assistant under Frank Vogel in the NBA Bubble. The current Foundation is formed. The current 501(c)(3) entity is established as JK Select, Inc., an Arizona nonprofit corporation, on December 14, 2020. JK Select launches as its primary program.
2021
JK Select Girls Basketball, Bay Area. The program's first sport and first region. A father of daughters and a fan of women's sports, Jason started with girls basketball, a cause his friend Kobe Bryant had championed. More than 65 Division I athletes have come through the program since launch. JK Select has since grown into a broader youth sports program, and girls sports equity is still at the center of the Foundation's work.
2025
Dual Hall of Fame Inductee. Inducted a second time as a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic "Redeem Team." Foundation name change. Effective April 25, 2025, the organization changes its legal name to The Jason Kidd Foundation.
2026
JK Select expands nationally. Dallas girls basketball launches in partnership with True Texas Hoops. JK Select Baseball debuts as a national program, rooted in Jason's Oakland childhood. JK Select now has nine Foundation-funded teams.