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Deanfox Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$122kEducation$45kArts & Culture$36kCivil Rights$31kEnvironment$7kHousing & Shelter$7kInternational$4kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$392k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEWY BODY DEMENTIA ASSOCIATION$4,000
YADDO$3,490
JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE$3,400
DRAMATIST GUILD FOUNDATION$3,000
HEALTH IN HARMONY$3,000
RAINN$2,655
BROWN UNIVERSITY$2,000
FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER$1,700
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION$1,600
SOUTHERN PVERTY LAW CENTER$1,500
YAIHOPE$1,400
THE CAMPFIRE PROJECT$1,400
NAMI INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$1,300
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$1,090
THE BRIGID ALLIANCE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $3k → 10%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $3k → 10%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $500 → 10%MANIFEST WORKS: $300 → 14%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $500 → 10%MANIFEST WORKS: $282 → 14%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $1k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
DC
MS
AL
GA
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$266k · 45 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
13

Total granted

$266k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

73%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +50%
  • Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc
    6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +36%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    5× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +578%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • LB
    LEWY BODY DEMENTIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Center for Arms Control and

A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.

International
7
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
8
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
12
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Environmental Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
23/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $32,590 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCLewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $30,000 · HealthLewy Body Dementia Association IncTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $26,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $9,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYHealth in Harmony: $7,000 · HealthHealth in HarmonyRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $6,355 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 · Health+2 more: $4,700 · HealthACLU: $12,020 · OtherACLUHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $9,000 · OtherHistoric Oakland Foundation IncDRAMATIST GUILD FOUNDATION: $9,000 · OtherDRAMATIST GUILD FOUNDATIONDRAMATIST GUILD FUND: $7,000 · OtherDRAMATIST GUILD FUNDTISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER OF NY: $6,000 · OtherTISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER OF NYPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $4,000 · OtherLEWY BODY DEMENTIA FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherSHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $3,700 · OtherCoalition On Homelessness: $7,000 · OtherCoalition On Homelessness+28 more: $36,306 · Other+28 moreMASA-MEXED INC: $10,300 · EducationBELOIT COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $2,000 · EducationTHE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC: $2,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,686 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $1,000 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $7,490 · Arts & CultureEudora Welty Foundation Inc: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHUNGRY FOR MUSIC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCAMPFIRE PROJECT INC: $1,400 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBROWN UNIVERSITY: $18,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $13,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,400 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $300 · Crime & LegalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $10,017 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $2,036 · InternationalUnited Hands Relief Inc: $1,200 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,200 · International
Health$121,645Other$98,026Education$21,986Arts & Culture$19,890Community Improvement$18,000Crime & Legal$14,700International$14,453

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $32,590 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMASA-MEXED INC: $10,300 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $10,017 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $7,490 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHealth in Harmony: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition On Homelessness: $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $6,355 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEudora Welty Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBELOIT COLLEGE: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $3,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $2,036 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGRY FOR MUSIC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,686 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPFIRE PROJECT INC: $1,400 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Hands Relief Inc: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP BILLINGS: $972 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANIFESTWORKS: $582 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $582 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETLIGHTS: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY RELEASE FUND: $300 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MASA-MEXED INC ↗
  • Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
  • Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO ↗
  • Who funds Health in Harmony ↗
  • Who funds Coalition On Homelessness ↗
  • Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
  • Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Eudora Welty Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds HUNGRY FOR MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Tides FoundationCA11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Deanfox Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deanfox Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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