Dan Wilks
Profile Summary
Dan Wilks is a Texas-based U.S. energy billionaire, born in 1956, with an estimated net worth of ~$2.1B RTB. SEC records identify him as Dan H. Wilks and show filings connected to several energy-sector public companies SEC EDGAR.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR lists 89 filings for Wilks, including 86 insider filings, associated with ProFrac Holding, Dawson Geophysical, ProPetro Holding, Flotek Industries, and Prairie Operating SEC EDGAR. Recent insider reports include Form 4 filings in August 2025, May 2025, and multiple dates in 2024; a Form 4 is the disclosure insiders use to report transactions in a company’s securities SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
The Wilks Family Foundation, based in Purchase, New York, reported $208,037 in assets, $2,700 in revenue, $4,145 in expenses, and $3,630 in grants paid for tax year 2024 ProPublica 990.
Political Activity
FEC records show 87 contributions totaling $2,818,562.10 from July 29, 2005, through May 2, 2026 FEC. The party breakdown was $2,723,712.10 classified as Unknown, $94,000 to Republicans, and $850 to Democrats FEC. The largest listed recipients were Keep the Promise III ($2,500,000), Believe Again ($125,000), Trump Victory ($50,000), the Republican National Committee ($45,300), and the National Republican Senatorial Committee ($25,000) FEC.
These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
Foundations are matched to a person by name, not by trustee records — so a same-surname family foundation can land here in error. Every entity below links to its full IRS filing; if one doesn’t belong, tell us at hello@skylarkcreations.com and we’ll pull it.
Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $2,818,562.10.
Top Recipients
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SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
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